Joel McHale discussed the crazy-awesome knife scene from episode 7 on The Soup when all of a sudden Lost star Michael Emerson (Benjamin Linus) appeared on the show. If you’re a 24 fan and a Lost fan this is some funny stuff.
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Battlestar Galactica fans were excited when not one but two former BSG cast members were hired for the eighth season of 24 – Katee Sackhoff as CTU analyst Dana Walsh and Callum Keith Rennie as russian mobster Vladimir Laitanan. Viewers of Battlestar Galactica know they had quite the history together and many were hoping they’d have an on-screen reunion of sorts.
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William Keck from TV Guide Magazine has wrangled a little more information out of 24 writer Brannon Braga regarding Callum Keith Rennie’s character:
Battlestar Galactica vet Callum Keith Rennie, who played Leoben Conoy on the sci-fi series, will be joining his former co-star Katee Sackoff on the new season of 24, premiering in January 2010. Callum, who also had a recurring role on Californication and played Harper’s Island killer John Wakefield, will be playing Vladimir Laitanan. Co-executive producer Brannon Braga describes the character as a Russian syndicate mobster who debuts around episode six or seven. “We love this actor,” says Braga.
Expect Vlad to team in some way with 24‘s other new villain, Eastern European mobster Bazhaev, played by “Das Boot” actor Jurgen Prochnow.
Source: TV Guide Magazine

TORONTO — Canadian actor Callum Keith Rennie has built a career out of playing very bad men.
With roles including a manipulative cylon on “Battlestar Galactica,” a bad-boy rocker on “Californication,” a serial killer on “Harper’s Island,” and this fall, a Russian mobster on “24,” the rugged performer says it’s good to be bad these days.
“I’ve played it quite a few times,” Rennie admits in a recent interview from Los Angeles, where he was shooting three episodes of “24.”
“(The bad guy) always has lots of twists and turns, right? You don’t get caught into certain styles of having to play it, so I like doing it.”
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