Jeffrey Donovan is the lead character in the USA hit series Burn Notice, which airs its season three finale on March 4, 2010. Burn Notice is an action/adventure drama about burned spy Michael Westen(Donovan) who is stuck in Miami, Florida and gets into a series of adventures with his small team of operatives and his mother (Sharon Gless). The cast of Burn Notice includes Bruce Campbell, Gabrielle Anwar and Sharon Gless. The Burn Notice series creator is Matt Nix. Jeffrey Donovan recently took interview questions in a conference call with columnists.
Following are some of the questions and answers from the interview:
Question: Can you tell us what we are going to see in season four of Burn Notice?
J. Donovan: Yes, season four is actually pretty remarkable. I met with the writers last week and we kind of broke down the next eight or nine episode ark. A new character is going to be introduced. I don't know the name yet, but he is going to be a young operative, but he's going to play a significant new role on the show. And then there is actually going to be a change of management. There's going to be a new management that controls Michael's life, and you'll see Michael have to go on even more dangerous missions under this new management with the new operative.
Jeff Donovan and Golf
Question: What do you do for fun in what little off time you have?
J. Donovan I golf. Luckily down in Florida, there's a lot of golf courses, and I just put a golf hat on and take my sticks out and I usually walk a course. And sometimes I'm by myself and sometimes I just kind of walk onto a twosome or a threesome and join them, and most people just kind of leave me alone, and that's my quiet time. I love walking about four or five hours on a golf course.
Question: How's your handicap?
J. Donovan I'm good, I'm a single digit, I'm down to a seven.
Jeff Donovan's Acting Seminar
Question: Is it true that you have an acting school here in Miami?
J. Donovan Well, it's not a formalized school, but it is, I teach seminars. I've partnered with a casting director who's been working in South Florida for about 20 years, Ellen Jacoby, and we created a acting seminar, basically a small little institute for beginners, advanced, and intermediate actors in the area.
And it's really a selfish journey for me, because we're running out of actors on our show to hire locally. So instead of going to Louisiana or South Carolina or any of these places around us, I thought why don't we just increase the talent level of the locals, so that's why I'm doing it.
Life Rolls On
Question: I know that you've recently donated some money to your high school in Angsbury, Massachusetts; but I know you're also very involved in Life Rolls On, could you tell us a little bit about that cause and what drew you to it specifically?
J. Donovan Well, many years ago, an actor friend of mine asked me if I wanted to go to a charity golf event out in Malibu for Life Rolls On, and I hadn't heard about it. And he explained it's a charitable foundation to raise money for spinal cord injuries in young athletes. And Jesse Billauer suffered a life changing surfing accident at the age of 19, and this foundation was created out of his name.
It's a wonderful foundation that raises funds that aren't necessarily being put into by the government or a lot of private foundations, to research how we can get these kids either wheelchair assisted living or new types of devices that will help them either walk or stand or even ride a surf board again or any sport that they got injured in. And so that's how I got involved and it's an incredible organization.
Burn Notice airs on Thursday nights on USA Network.
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