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Video: Chuck Actress Yvonne Strahovski Goes Bare For a "Skinsuit" Shoot

Lauren Bradshaw — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 12:43:25 PST

Chuck star Yvonne Strahovski follows in the footsteps of Ashley Greene and Jessics Szohr by stripping down to a painted-on "skinsuit" for Sobe. See the sexy behind-the-scenes footage from her shoot in PopSugar Rush.

Link Time - Dexter Renewed For More Seasons

BuzzSugar — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 13:30:24 PST

Find out how many more seasons Dexter was picked up for - Aol TV
Find out what critics are saying about Breaking Dawn - Rotten Tomatoes
Watch a new trailer for The Vow with Channing Tatum and Rachel McAdams - Moviefone
Find out about Chuck star Yvonne Strahovski's new monster movie role - The Hollywood Reporter
How old-school video game Rampage is being turned into a movie - NextMovie
The craziest quotes from this season of Dancing With the Stars - BuddyTV
See which Veronica Mars alum is joining Supernatural - Zapt2it
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Killer Elite's Yvonne Strahovski Says Sarah Will Finally Be a "Normal Person" on Chuck's Fifth and Last Season

Lindsay Miller — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 12:42:53 PDT

Yvonne Strahovski might be best known as Sarah on NBC's hit show Chuck, but this month, she's branching out onto the big screen in the action-thriller Killer Elite. The movie is out in theaters this Friday and features a heavyweight cast that includes Robert De Niro, Clive Owen, and Jason Statham. In fact, when we caught up with her during the Toronto Film Festival, Yvonne admitted working alongside her well-known costars was a little bit nerve-wracking. Beyond her foray into film, it's a big year for the actress, with Chuck coming to a close after five seasons. Yvonne told us she thinks this year her character will really get a chance to be a "normal person" when the series comes to a close. See what Yvonne has to say about Sarah and Chuck's futures, as well as her first major movie role, in our interview!

Link Time - Christian Bale and Sean Penn Team Up For The Last Photograph

BuzzSugar — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 13:30:11 PDT

Sean Penn and Christian Bale to star in war drama The Last Photograph - Vulture
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Green Lantern still adding actors to voice cast; check out the latest addition - /Film
Watch Chuck's Yvonne Strahovski parody Ke$ha, Katy Perry, and more - PopWatch
Did SNL steal last week's celebrity accountant sketch? - TV.com
Russell Brand definitely in for Rock of Ages, but Amy Adams is now out - Deadline
Rufus Sewell to play head vampire in Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter - The Wrap
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Michelle, Rachel, and Mindy Glam Up NBC's TCA Party

Molly — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 14:10:10 PDT

NBC and Bravo had their chance to play party host in Pasadena last night for the TCAs. Michelle Trachtenberg could only stay for a second before heading to her mom's birthday party, but she still dished even more on Gossip Girl - check out the exclusive interview in today's PopSugar Rush! Most of the cast of The Office came out to support their show, and Mindy Kaling even gave Buzz the scoop on the upcoming Jim and Pam wedding! Rachel Zoe and her husband also posed on the red carpet as they gear up for season two of Rachel's show and the launch of her newsletter. There's a lot more to come from all our interviews and the events are rolling on today, so don't forget to check out all of our TCA coverage here .

To see more from the party including B.J. Novak, Benjamin McKenzie, Jay Leno, Mindy Kaling, and others, just read more.

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Images include: B.J. Novak, Benjamin McKenzie, Greg Grunberg, Howie Mandel, Jay Leno, Kathy Griffin, Mary McCormack, Michelle Trachtenberg, Rachel Zoe, Yvonne Strahovski, Adrian Pasdar, Gail Simmons, Chevy Chase, Tiffani Thiessen, Mindy Kaling, Joel McHale, Zachary Levi, Oscar Nunez; Kate Flannery, Creed Bratton, Roger Berman, Taylor Shilling, Aubrey Plaza, Gail Simmons, Sarah Lancaster, Aimee Teegarden, Connie Britton

Trend Alert: Fuss-Free on the Red Carpet

BellaSugar — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 06:01:42 PDT

It's Summer and apparently celebrities, like the rest of us, want to take it easy - even at a big red carpet event. In the past few days alone, Molly Sims, Chuck's Yvonne Strahovski, model Bar Rafaeli, and actress Charlyne Yi have all gone with unstyled hair and barely-there makeup that looks a lot more normal-girl than Hollywood starlet. They're totally gorgeous, of course, but they're so low on drama that some of you think it's inappropriate for a premiere. I'd say this is smart thinking on the part of women who know there's nothing cool about melting into a puddle of lipstick and foundation, but would you like to see more natural-looking stars all year 'round? And do you think we'll see even more lovely ladies try this look, or is it for the young, beautiful, and perfectly complected only?

Would You Wear Yvonne Strahovski's Bare-Faced Look on the Red Carpet?

BellaSugar — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 11:00:03 PDT

Last night at the Julie & Julia screening in Hollywood, Yvonne Strahovski, who plays awesome CIA agent Sarah on NBC's sitcom Chuck, walked down the red carpet seemingly without professional assistance. Her hair was unstyled, no glamorous premiere makeup was to be found, and she was wearing a t-shirt and jeans. Yvonne's naturally beautiful - she'd look good in a potato sack, as my mother would say - but she was more casual than other guests. Do you find this low-key approach refreshing, or do you prefer a more done-up look?

Chuck Rundown: Episode 22, "Chuck vs. The Ring"

BuzzSugar — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 09:30:29 PDT

And that's how you do a finale. This season's last episode of Chuck has it all: romance, drama, fight scenes, Jeffster!, intrigue, nostalgia, and a good deal of promise for - please, oh please - a third season. And despite warnings from the show's creators, I'm not exactly burning my living room over it; I'm just excited that I got to see one darn fine hour of television. Ready to talk about it? Just

read more. Chuck knows kung fu! He knows kung fu and heaven knows what else, because he puts the Intersect back into his brain, and it turns out to be more powerful than anyone knew. It may be too powerful, as his dad suggests - and, if we're lucky, we'll get to find out. But for the moment, all we need to know is: Chuck voluntarily downloaded the Intersect, and he's not only a hero for it but potentially an action superstar. And I suppose he'll be needing those powers to take on The Ring - if, indeed, that's what they're called. There's something big and bad beyond Fulcrum, some organization of spies that's never been defeated (except, apparently, by Chuck's magic martial arts skills). Their mission and motives seem shadowy so far: they shoot Roark, let Casey live, and kill Bryce Larkin (I assume, this time, for good). What do they want? How do they fit in? Will we ever get to find out? NBC, call me! And I've only talked about the last 10 minutes! Honestly, "Chuck vs. The Ring" is exhausting: it's a big cycle of happiness followed by disaster, rinse, repeat. Chuck and Casey quit their Buy More jobs, but then Chuck learns Sarah is heading on a mission with Bryce. Chuck's ready to get his sister married, but then Ted Roark shows up. Casey manages to immediately make good on a promise and parachute in to take Roark down, but then Ellie's perfect wedding is reduced to a pile of torn silk and melted ice sculpture. The happiest moments in the episode, as it turns out, come smack in the middle, when Chuck realizes he can still give Ellie her dream wedding, thanks to a fat government check and a team of the most detail-oriented wedding planners around. The next time you need a secluded beach location, nonclashing bunting, and begonias on short notice, just give the NSA a call. Maybe my sense of happiness is screwed up, but I find a lot of joy in this episode, even when bad things are about to happen. Take, for example, Jeffster!'s vocorder-laden rendition of "Mr. Roboto," which ends up becoming the score to one of the greatest throwdowns in Chuck history. Or Sarah telling Bryce that she won't be going away with him after all. Or Chuck's dad clocking Ted Roark. At the 40-minute mark, when Awesome and Ellie walked down the makeshift aisle to Chuck's whoops and cheers, I thought Chuck had already delivered one of the most fabulous finales I've ever seen. And that's even before the new Intersect came along to change everything. Some other thoughts:

Nice that Sarah's bridesmaid's dress apparently came ready for action. Also a good thing that knives are a fairly traditional wedding gift.
"Why are you letting Sam Kinison and an Indian lesbian ruin your wedding?"
Chuck's dad has an Intersect, too! Not entirely surprising, at this point, but I was pretty excited to see him flash.
One of my favorite sequences involves the wedding fight, Honey Woodcombe taking a swig out of a flask, and Ellie meditating cross-legged in her wedding dress.
Yeah, I totally still don't get all of what the Orion wristband does.
So if Morgan, Chuck, and Casey are all gone from the Buy More, is there even a Buy More if there's a season three?
One more time, for posterity: Chuck knows kung fu!

So now we wait. May 4 - that's when NBC has to announce its Fall schedule. I just hope that when the news comes, it'll be that we get to see how Chuck uses his new powers, rather than just imagining scenes like that closing kung fu one over and over. In the meantime, let's chat about Chuck's new powers and everything else that went down in this finale! Photos courtesy of NBC

TV Tonight: The Chuck Season Finale

BuzzSugar — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 07:00:00 PDT

Peanuts saved Jericho. Can Subway's $5 Footlong save Chuck?

I certainly hope it can - or, at least that the sandwiches, the Twitter campaign, the blog pleas and open letters, and the general outpourings of Internet love will be enough to convince NBC that Chuck deserves another season. The show has grown so much in its second season - and so consistently delivered a blend of humor, suspense, and romance that no other current show quite has - that it would be a shame to see it go away now.

One thing's certain: The early buzz on tonight's finale is - to borrow a very Chuck word - awesome. We've seen Chuck's family in danger before, but not quite the way they'll be at Devon and Ellie's wedding. It's been touted as a game-changer, and since last week's episode was pretty game-changing itself, I'm eager to see what that means. And I'll be finding out with a sweet onion chicken teriyaki sandwich in hand. To check out a promo for tonight's episode - plus, if you dare, seven minutes of scenes from the finale - just

Chuck Rundown: Episode 21, "Chuck vs. the Colonel"

BuzzSugar — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 09:30:34 PDT

How many kinds of awesome (and Awesome) can you cram into one episode of Chuck? I think we found out this week, as "Chuck vs. the Colonel" finds Chuck running off with Sarah, Casey assigned to find them, Fulcrum hot on their tail, and some serious drama going down at the Buy More. The episode left me wondering: how could the finale - supposedly so good that we'll want to burn our living rooms if the show doesn't get renewed - possibly top this? To chat about it, just

read more. Let us now praise Captain Awesome. Ever since Devon caught that glimpse of General Beckman on Chuck's computer screen, I'd been wondering how long it would take him to find out about Chuck's spy life. It starts out as concern (Chuck hasn't been coming home) and grows into suspicion (why, that John Casey seems downright obsessed with Chuck!). Jeff and Lester give Devon the rundown on Casey's stalker-like behavior - which even an accomplished stalker like Jeff thinks is sick - and before long, Devon's trapped behind gates in Casey's apartment. There's no explaining that away, really, so Chuck confesses: he's a government asset, Chuck and Sarah are his handlers, and right now, he needs Devon to be, you know, Awesome. Devon accepts his mission with a jaunty salute, but he can barely get words out when Ellie confronts him. Good thing he's got prewedding jitters to blame. Speaking of which: Chuck returns with Ellie's "wedding present," one Stephen Bartowski. But that doesn't come without a fight - one complete with government bombers. Fulcrum's had Chuck's dad locked up underground working on the new Intersect; little does anyone - including Chuck - know that he's actually building a program to get the Intersect out of Chuck's brain. The scene at the drive-in had so many wonderful moments: Roark taking his Steve Jobs-esque keynoting to the big screen; the identical agents in their identical cars; Stephen telling Chuck it's OK for him to open his eyes ("It's all for you"). I love the scene of them driving away as the theater behind them goes up in a wave of flames and the small smile on Chuck's face when his dad tells him he's really free. Meanwhile, Emmett's fully installed in Big Mike's old job at the Buy More, even arranging for marlin removal. He tries to woo the now-friendless Morgan to the dark side (love the callback to the "ass man" gag), and it takes Anna's urging to get Morgan to admit he has dreams beyond the Buy More: being a Benihana chef in Hawaii ("I'm way past my prime, I'm not Asian, and I don't even know where to get the knives!"). Ultimately, he falls on his sword, takes off his shirt(s), and walks out in a blaze of glory to a slow clap. Dude. Some other thoughts:

Chuck and Sarah make out! For real! And they'd totally have done more if not for Morgan swiping Chuck's wallet condom some indeterminate amount of time ago.
That's the best part of the hotel scenes, but there's also Casey getting chained to the radiator, then pulling the radiator out of the wall to get free, and then using the radiator as a weapon/shield. ("You can't kill me with that radiator. It is far too confined in this car for you to get the appropriate torque.")
Aww, all Casey wanted was to be invited to the mission!
So does Casey still get to be a colonel? It was sweet of him to praise (and protect) Sarah, but I hope he still gets his promotion! And will he ever kill that guy who keeps coming back?
Not only did Sarah and Casey get some good "stay in the car, Chuck" moments, but Chuck got one of his own, telling Sarah to stay put in the motel and then having her disappear out the bathroom window.
Really, the power goes out and all the holding cells in the Castle open?

Argh, you guys! One more week! I can't take it - what if it's the last Chuck ever? Photos courtesy of NBC