Matt Czuchry And Cary Agos Have A Lot In Common

Here’s a great interview actor Matt Czuchry (Logan Huntzberger on Gilmore Girls) did with blogger The TV Chick on his role as Cary Agos in The Good Wife. We saw a lot more of Cary in this week’s episode and CBS created a blog about his character, so I think his role in the show is only going to get bigger. You may be wondering what the similarities between Matt and Cary are; here’s what he had to say:

I would say this character is very goal-driven and I’m very goal driven. I’m very much a type A personality, where I plan things out. I think where the character and I are different is–Cary will at least where he is right now in his life, is willing to use any means necessary to achieve what he wants and I’m not that way. I care about other people’s emotions and feelings over my own personal goals.

Naturally, given his biggest role on television was as Logan, there had to be a question on how Cary compares to that character. And on this, Matt admits that was a long time ago and he’s left the feelings he tapped into to play Logan behind:

Well, you know that show finished 2 years ago, so most of my work and emotions and thought I put into that particular character, having finished it two years ago, are kind of in the past. But you know, any time you’re taking on a new character, it’s at first, in the first couple of episodes if it’s TV, or in the beginning when you’re working on it in rehearsals in a movie, you’re trying to find your way. You’re still trying to find your way, to who this character is. So in the beginning, those first couple episodes, just trying to find the degrees as far as how genuine is he here, how much is he hiding here, how much is he completely just screwing somebody over here…(laughs)…so finding those degrees in the beginning are tricky because you haven’t had much time with this character but with each episode, you get in the groove and you understand who this person is based on having more time living inside his skin.

Do you ever think Gilmore Girls actors get tired of hearing questions about that show? It just goes to show how strong the association is, since as Matt points out, that program ended two years ago. Read the rest of Matt’s interview at The TV Chick.