I teased a while back that I’d give you a couple tidbits about Australian actress Yvonne Strahovski, who plays Sarah on NBC’s Chuck.

Coming up tomorrow (Monday, April 26), Chuck comes back after a couple weeks off with “Chuck Versus the Honeymooners,” and it’s GREAT! Forget the whole “Chuck’s a spy” or “Chuck’s not a spy” business. Chuck’s back and so is Sarah, but in a completely different way.

Here’s part of an interview with Yvonne that was conducted BEFORE the enormous “game changing” episode, “Chuck Versus the Other Guy,” where Chuck and Sarah finally got together big time. While we didn’t talk about all the new developments on Chuck (like Chuck and Sarah hitting the sheets), here’s some general goodies about Sarah, her American accent, and why she misses her nose ring:

KATHIE: What is your biggest challenge in playing Sarah this season?

YVONNE: I think it is the fact that Chuck is becoming more of spy and I think for Sarah she’s becoming more of a human being and learning how to be sort of be somewhat normal and it is kind of baby steps for her cause she’s always been in the spy world. She doesn’t know it but I think she’s sort of unraveling a little bit more this season and we’ll definitely see more of that in episodes to come. You get to see her more raw side.

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