What was the search to cast Chuck Bartowski like? Was it difficult to find the perfect person?
“It was even harder than Chuck and Morgan’s search for Chuck’s mom,” Schwartz said, laughing. “It didn’t take us to quite as many countries, although close. It was really challenging. I mean, obviously, you know, we wanted to be able to … obviously Seth Cohen was part of what we talked about, but we also wanted this guy to feel like his own character, and a man, you know? And we really wanted someone you could believe would be cowering on his birthday instead of wanting to go out and face people … his life hadn’t come together … but who, if given the opportunity and the right-fitting tuxedo, could also make that transformation and would be believable as a spy, as well, albeit a spy that spent a lot of time in the first couple of seasons hiding under tables to avoid getting hurt. “And when (Zach) came in and read, it was instant. It was just like, here’s a guy that can hit every note, play all those different colors, who you believe is nerdy, but you also can see someone who drop-
