Billy Burke, Anna Kendrick. Lindsay Siu/CBS; Gregg DeGuire/FilmMagic
Billy Burke traded in his police uniform from Twilight for firefighter gear in Hearth Nation, however he’d be glad to have the 2 worlds collide.
Burke, 57, solely informed Us Weekly on Tuesday, February 6, which of his former Twilight costars he’d wish to make a cameo on Hearth Nation, season 2 of which premieres Friday, February 16, on CBS.
“Nicely, I imply, I may go together with the apparent and say Kristen [Stewart], as a result of most of my work was carried out with Kristen,” Burke shared, referring to Stewart, who performed his character Police Chief Charlie Swan’s daughter, Bella Swan. “Clearly, it will be nice for her to return on.”
The actor, nonetheless, pointed to Anna Kendrick as his No. 1 choose, though he momentarily blanked on her title. “She’s very well-known,” Burke mentioned, noting that Kendrick, 38, grew to become synonymous with the “cup dance” in Pitch Excellent.
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“I’ve at all times been attempting to infuse as a lot levity and comedy into this present the place we will discover it,” Burke informed Us of why he’d faucet Kendrick for a component within the CBS drama. “I feel simply her sensibilities, that sort of vitality could be superior to have on the present.”
He added, “Sorry, I forgot your title Anna Kendrick!” Burke then poked enjoyable at his time as Charlie Swan, saying, “I used to be utterly oblivious to what was happening your entire time anyway.”
Burke and Kendrick each appeared in 2008’s Twilight, which facilities round Bella (Stewart), who falls in love with vampire Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson) after assembly in highschool. Whereas Burke portrayed Bella’s father, Kendrick was one among her classmates, Jessica, who attended the Forks, Washington, faculty.
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Whereas Burke appeared in all 5 Twilight Saga films, Kendrick ended her run with 2011’s The Twilight Saga: Breaking Daybreak – Half 1. She was included “in credit score solely” for the ultimate installment, 2012’s The Twilight Saga: Breaking Daybreak – Half 2.
Regardless of taking on the field workplace for years, Burke isn’t the one Twilight star who has quipped about how little of the franchise they bear in mind. Kendrick confessed in November 2018 that it wasn’t her most memorable position, writing through X, “Holy s–t. I simply remembered I used to be in Twilight.”
Two years later, Kendrick acquired actual about what it was actually like working in Washington for the films. “I simply bear in mind being so chilly and depressing,” she informed Vainness Honest in June 2020 of the climate situations, joking that her “utterly soaked” sneakers made her really feel like, “‘, this can be a actually nice group of individuals, and I’m certain that we’d be mates in a unique time, however I wish to homicide everybody.’” Kendrick clarified that the chilly finally “bonded” the solid.
Within the decade for the reason that Twilight Saga ended, each Kendrick and Burke have discovered much more success. Kendrick is finest identified for taking part in Beca within the Pitch Excellent franchise, whereas Burke has been enjoying Battalion Chief Vince Leone on Hearth Nation since 2022.
Though Kendrick’s doable cameo on the TV present is up within the air, Burke informed Us that he already has an ideal scene accomplice in Diane Farr, who performs his spouse, Sharon Leone. The pair painting convict Bode Leone’s (Max Thieriot) dad and mom, who battle to cope with Bode’s return to their hometown to work as a firefighter and knock off time in his jail sentence.
“She’s acquired her approach of doing issues. I’ve acquired my approach of doing issues, they usually simply sort of mesh actually simply collectively,” Burke defined. “There’s by no means any query after we go into scenes collectively that we’re going to make one thing occur, no matter it is likely to be. In order that’s sort of an automated for us.”
When he’s not working with Farr, 54, Burke mentioned he likes being a part of a gaggle. “There’s a scene that we have now in, I feel it’s the primary episode, the place it’s simply the 4 of us sitting at Smokey’s,” he teased of season 2. “We’re speaking about what’s taking place with Bode. I like these form of scenes that really feel like a courtroom drama the place … there could or is probably not unintended energy struggles happening in these kinds of scenes.”
Hearth Nation season 2 premieres on CBS Friday, February 16, at 9 p.m. ET.
