Chip Howard's Sports Talk

Here’s a nice lengthy radio interview that Annie Wersching did today on Chip Howard’s SportsTalk. She talks about 24, the upcoming movie, her recent role on Hawaii Five-0 a few weeks ago, and the television pilot process among other things.

Annie also revealed her next role – she’s working on a television pilot called Intercept over the next few weeks. Although not much more was said about that, it appears to be a one-hour drama for ABC Family about a group of college students who solve crimes. Listen to it in our audio player below, along with a full text transcript.

If you’re a fan of 24 (Mondays at 9 pm on FOX), you don’t have to be told what needs to be done to save America from a terrorist attack. So in this season’s hour 4, when FBI agent Renee Walker (Annie Wersching) needed information from a former undercover contact in the Russian mob, she did what any red-blooded American would do: she put the guy’s hand in a vise and cut his thumb off.

Okay, it was more complicated than that (how else was she going to get the parole bracelet off!), but you know what we’re talking about. A few episodes later, Walker stabbed a sexual assailant in the eye (well, actually, she had to sleep with him, it was undercover, but you know!). In last week’s episode (April 12, hour 17), a looming nuclear threat resolved, Walker and series hero Jack Bauer (Kiefer Sutherland) finally consummated a supposed long-simmering romantic tension (huh?) – only for Walker to be felled moments later by an assassin’s bullet (pull the drapes, Jack, it’s “between 8 a.m. and 9 a.m.”!).

Thus dispatched, Walker/Wersching took part in a special press conference call. Due to a glitch in the cuing system, I did not get to ask my two questions. But FOX was kind enough to set up a separate (exclusive!) short interview with Wersching. The show concludes its eighth and final season with two-hour special on May 24.

Wersching talked with me about the thumb scene, about working with writer/producer and show-runner Howard Gordon, and about her upcoming plans.

–Jon Garelick

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Here’s Annie Wersching’s radio interview on 97.5 KMOD (Tulsa’s Rock Station) today. She is once again asked about the “Annie on Ellen Show” fan campaign, a few 24 questions, her pregnancy, and more.

Annie Wersching is interviewed on The Kevin and Bean Show (KROQ 106.7 FM) about her characters return in the eighth season of 24, the thumb cutting scene, working with Kiefer Sutherland, and the shows portrayal of torture.

Rocky Rhodes and Sue Barry from 98.5 KRZ talk to 24‘s Annie Wersching about Renee Walker’s intense return to 24 Season 8, working with Kiefer Sutherland, the future of the 24 series, and Kiefer’s recent appearance on David Letterman.

Annie Wersching was interviewed on The John DeBella Show (102.9 WMGK) February 13, 2009 about joining the cast of 24 Season 7 as Renee Walker, her previous audition for the pilot of Company Man, wearing the same clothes every week, who the moles are, pretending to torture a baby, and more.

Annie Wersching called into the Elliot in the Morning show to promote the upcoming seventh season which will premiere in just two days on January 11, 2009.

Annie talked about her time filming in Washington DC, visiting all the landmarks, the extremely long wait between seasons six and seven, working with co-star Kiefer Sutherland, and how she was a huge fan of the series from the very start.