campbell likes his role on burn notice

I have seen Burn Notice’s future and I am here to tell you that I’m not giving away any secrets, nor will I spoil somebody’s night by telling you what’s in the first few episodes. What I am here to tell you is the show is taking a nice turn, a turn that will allow the shows producer Matt Nix to really develop the characters that we all love on the show.

“Well, Sam by now is, we're now past the point where we don’t trust him. He's a hopefully valuable member of the team now, and so, like Michael Westen, Sam is taking the twists and turns as they come now. I don’t know that Sam is going to get married or any personal revelation. Sam is pretty much living in Michael’s mother’s house, a room in her house, so he's just kind of a permanent loser, at least in this season. And he's always there to help,” the actor said in a very easygoing manner.

Michael (Jeffrey Donovan) has to deal with him mom a bit more this season it seems and there is a bit more of a comedic edge to the first few episodes that I was able to sample and I think it continues to add to this terrific series.

“It's going to get worse for Michael Westen this year, because of a couple of things that have happened as a result of the last two-parter,” Campbell revealed. “So his world is a little more unstable this year. He's not necessarily under the thumb of Carla any more. She was the evil temptress of the last season.”

So what will these characters have to face this season?

“Well, you saw a little bit in the first season when he was being interrogated, you realize that he's interrogated people a lot, he's been interrogated, and he knows how to handle it. So yes, it's nice to see that there is a tough side to these guys amid all the joking, because I think that's really how it would be. These guys are tough on the inside but on the outside they're just normal schmoes,” he said.

“As far as the dark side, I'm sure that Sam has killed multiple people. I'm sure Michael Westen has killed multiple people. Fiona probably has killed more than both of us. So, you’ll have to ask her about her dark side. Sam, I think, will go to the dark side, but he doesn’t stay there. That's not his bag. If something is horrible, it's horrible, and then you move on because the next day you don’t know if you're even going to be around. So I think Sam has appreciated a sense of life, by being so close to death.”

Before he left Bruce let us in on who will be guest starring this season.

“Oh, boy, guest stars. They come and go. We got Nick Turturro, who was on NYPD Blue, he's playing a weasely criminal character. I'm not so good with rattling all the things off. We're starting to get a good stable of directors, like Tim Matheson is becoming a stable director element. So it would be nice to see him come back. I hope he's in another episode as this guy Larry. He plays this crazy guy, Larry, who, I hope he comes back, because Tim is a really good actor, too. We had Lucy Lawless, I think on our second episode we got Lucy in. That was real fun to do. I got a bunch of friends we're always trying to get in there. They're coming and going. So it's sort of a stay tuned thing, to see who is coming. But the nice thing is when you have a hit show, you can get better actors. No one wants to be on a show with lousy ratings.”

Burn Notice opens up tonight at 9PM EST on USA.