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In "After Six," Fox puts aside the fisticuffs for battle of a more intellectual kind, playing rogue security-systems designer Toni Cummings. It's up to CIA Agents Sydney Bristow (Jennifer Garner) and Eric Weiss (Greg Grunberg) to convince Toni that she should help the CIA break through the defenses of the evil Covenant.
Fox laughs when asked if Toni's causing trouble for Sydney. "Just a little bit! Just a tad. She needs it. She can handle it, though. She's a tough one. But working on this show has been an incredible experience. I've been a big fan ever since it came out. I got the offer because of Quentin, because he's in the episode as well.
According to Fox, Toni "sets up security systems for some big-ballers. She's high-tech security, only deals with people in diamonds, the heavy-hitters. She sets up some unbelievable systems, that just blow people way, like, 'Oh, my God, who is this that's doing this?' And it's a female -- it's me! Her agenda is always about herself."
Unfortunately, she and Tarantino don't cross paths. "I don't think those stories intertwined, because Quentin's story is something that's playing out from a previous episode."
After having a prickly relationship with secretly evil NSA Agent Lauren Reed (Melissa George) all season, Sydney doesn't exactly find a new best friend in Toni.
"There's clashing going on," Fox says, "from the moment they meet. She doesn't trust anyone. Sydney tries to come in and be just a tad bit too friendly for her, and she says, 'I see you, missy.'
"The dialogue was in your face, confrontational. Usually in TV, they sugarcoat things, especially with females. The first thing that I asked was, 'I don't like them?' Jennifer said, 'You don't like them, and you don't trust them.' I'm like, 'Great, just wanted to make sure.' That's just refreshing to play, it really is. You're usually playing the victim, the mom or the girlfriend, damsel in distress."
Toni might even return, Fox says. "What they've told me is, 'Oh, no, honey, we're going to find a way to bring you back."
On the guest-star docket for upcoming "Alias" episodes are "The Office" star and Golden Globe Award-winner Ricky Gervais, in a rare non-comedic role as a bomb maker, on March 14; and, in late March, Peter Fonda, as Lauren's father, Senator Reed.
So she may be coming back for more than one episode.... that's interesting...
Fox laughs when asked if Toni's causing trouble for Sydney. "Just a little bit! Just a tad. She needs it. She can handle it, though. She's a tough one. But working on this show has been an incredible experience. I've been a big fan ever since it came out. I got the offer because of Quentin, because he's in the episode as well.
According to Fox, Toni "sets up security systems for some big-ballers. She's high-tech security, only deals with people in diamonds, the heavy-hitters. She sets up some unbelievable systems, that just blow people way, like, 'Oh, my God, who is this that's doing this?' And it's a female -- it's me! Her agenda is always about herself."
Unfortunately, she and Tarantino don't cross paths. "I don't think those stories intertwined, because Quentin's story is something that's playing out from a previous episode."
After having a prickly relationship with secretly evil NSA Agent Lauren Reed (Melissa George) all season, Sydney doesn't exactly find a new best friend in Toni.
"There's clashing going on," Fox says, "from the moment they meet. She doesn't trust anyone. Sydney tries to come in and be just a tad bit too friendly for her, and she says, 'I see you, missy.'
"The dialogue was in your face, confrontational. Usually in TV, they sugarcoat things, especially with females. The first thing that I asked was, 'I don't like them?' Jennifer said, 'You don't like them, and you don't trust them.' I'm like, 'Great, just wanted to make sure.' That's just refreshing to play, it really is. You're usually playing the victim, the mom or the girlfriend, damsel in distress."
Toni might even return, Fox says. "What they've told me is, 'Oh, no, honey, we're going to find a way to bring you back."
On the guest-star docket for upcoming "Alias" episodes are "The Office" star and Golden Globe Award-winner Ricky Gervais, in a rare non-comedic role as a bomb maker, on March 14; and, in late March, Peter Fonda, as Lauren's father, Senator Reed.
So she may be coming back for more than one episode.... that's interesting...