Wil Wheaton talks Leverage, on TNT Wednesday August 26

By April MacIntyre Aug 26, 2009, 3:44 GMT

01/04/2009 - Wil Wheaton -TNT fired over the latest clips from Leverage and Dark Blue, their Wednesday night dramas. © Albert L. Ortega / PR Photos

TNT fired over the latest clips from Leverage and Dark Blue, their Wednesday night dramas.

The Leverage episode “The Two Live Crew Job” featured Wil Wheaton, as The Leverage team sees double when it goes against another team of thieves in an exciting new episode.

Guest-starring Wil Wheaton and Griffin Dunne, “The Two Live Crew Job” airs Wednesday, Aug. 26, at 9 p.m. (ET/PT)

Wheaton's character Chaos, goes up against Leverage computer guru, Hardison.  

Wil Wheaton spoke to M&C about his role in the series, and how Chaos stacks up to Hardison: 

"Well, if you ask Chaos he would tell you that Hardison dreams of 1 day being half as competent and skilled and accomplished as he is.  If you asked Hardison he would tell you that he thinks it’s just adorable that Chaos holds this opinion of himself and that’s part of what makes their relationship so much fun to create.  It was really important to me when I was putting this character together and Aldis and I were rehearsing our scenes, that the audience get the sense that these guys are both at the absolute top of their game." 

Wheaton shared how the experience went for him with Leverage's cast and crew: "I am really proud of this episode.  I had very high expectations going into it because I knew the script was great and I knew the cast was flawless.  And you know I was there when we were putting it all together and I saw how things were working and how things were working on the set and stuff, and I thought this is going to be a great episode." 

"I went down to Electric Entertainment last week to see a screening of it and it exceeded my already high expectations.  Like everybody gets to do something cool in this episode.  And the story that ties all of these wonderful individual moments together is a really good, really solid, fun story.  And you know even if I wasn’t a member of this rival crew, I would really want to see these two crews go head to head again, to see how things change.   And in fact, all of the players in this particular episode, in both crews, are convinced that they are the very best at what they do, and are really kind of happy and kind of excited to finally have somebody to go up against that they consider a worthy rival.  So when I was working on my scenes and preparing my scenes with Aldis, we made sure that there was this sense of sparring as opposed to a sense of bare knuckle brawling," explained Wheaton.

The premise of the episode Wednesday sees the Leverage team forced to go head-to-head against another crew of thieves in order to retrieve their clients’ priceless artwork.

Directed by Dean Devlin; Written by Amy Berg & John Rogers; Created by John Rogers & Chris Downey

Series Regulars Nate Ford – Timothy Hutton Sophie Deveraux – Gina Bellman Eliot Spencer – Christian Kane Parker – Beth Riesgraf Alec Hardison -Aldis Hodge

Guest Starring Starke – Griffin Dunne; Chaos – Wil Wheaton; Mikel Dayan – Noa Tishby; Apollo – Apollo Robbins

DARK BLUE

Premieres Wednesday, Aug. 26, at 10 p.m. (ET/PT)

Carter taps into his collection of friends in low places to target a highly decorated, extremely corrupt cop. But working to bring down a fellow officer weighs heavily on Ty, especially after his wife drops a bombshell in his lap.

Directed by Jeffrey Hunt; Written by Doug Jung; Created by Danny Cannon and Doug Jung

Series Regulars Carter Shaw – Dylan McDermott Ty Curtis – Omari Hardwick Dean Bendis – Logan Marshall-Green Jaimie – Nicki Aycox

Guest Starring Captain Maynard – Tyrees Allen Lt. Jay Fry – Michael Biehn Neal – David Fabrizio Melissa Curtis – Meta Golding Chavez – Jon Huertas Mott – Michael Shamus Wiles