{"id":7177,"date":"2009-08-25T16:52:51","date_gmt":"2009-08-25T23:52:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=7177"},"modified":"2009-08-25T16:53:28","modified_gmt":"2009-08-25T23:53:28","slug":"wheaton-in-leverage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2009\/08\/wheaton-in-leverage\/","title":{"rendered":"Wheaton In Leverage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Wil Wheaton<\/strong>&#8216;s <em>Leverage<\/em> episode airs tomorrow night on TNT.<\/p>\n<p>Playing a high-tech whiz wasn&#8217;t much of a stretch for Wheaton, unlike other roles he has played in the past. &#8220;I didn&#8217;t have to work too hard on that one,&#8221; he said of his role as Chaos.<\/p>\n<p>Wheaton plays a hacker villain who is in computer combat with <em>Leverage&#8217;<\/em>s Alec (<strong>Aldis Hodge<\/strong>) in <em>The Two Live Crew Job. <\/em>&#8220;The underside of competition is really fun to explore,&#8221; said Wheaton.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><em>The Two Live Crew Job<\/em> has the <em>Leverage <\/em>crew of former scam artists facing off against another crew of thieves. Both crews are in pursuit of the same artwork. Joining Wheaton on the new crew of thieves are: <strong>Griffin Dunne<\/strong>, who plays the leader; <strong>Apollo Robbins<\/strong> as a thief and <strong>Noa Tishby<\/strong> as a tough enforcer.<\/p>\n<p>In the original script, &#8220;Chaos was a girl,&#8221; said Wheaton. &#8220;<strong>John<\/strong> [<strong>Rogers<\/strong>, co-creator of <em>Leverage<\/em>] looked at it and saw that it was a good role for me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>The Two Live Crew Job<\/em> airs Wednesday, August 26, at 9 P.M. on TNT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wil Wheaton&#8216;s Leverage episode airs tomorrow night on TNT. Playing a high-tech whiz wasn&#8217;t much&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2413,2442],"tags":[2431,2870,2869],"class_list":["post-7177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cast-crew","category-star-trek-tng","tag-leverage","tag-the-two-live-crew-job","tag-wheato"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","newsphere-slider-full":"","newsphere-featured":"","newsphere-medium":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"T&#39;Bonz","author_link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/author\/tbonz\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/cast-crew\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Cast &amp; Crew<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/star-trek-tng\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Star Trek: TNG<\/a>","tag_info":"Star Trek: TNG","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7177"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7179,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7177\/revisions\/7179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}