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By Suzanne

Interview with Mark Valley of "Human Target" on FOX

I really enjoyed chatting with Mark Valley! He seemed so nice. Of course he is great on the show, and so gorgeous as well. "Human Target" is a very good action/adventure show. You can read my review. I have really enjoyed watching it. I have seen the next episodes, too, and they are awesome!

 The Human Target Conference Call With Mark Valley
March 8, 2010/2:30 p.m. EST

SPEAKERS

Todd Adair
Mark Valley

PRESENTATION

Moderator:Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for standing by and welcome to the Human Target Conference Call with Mark Valley. At this time all participants are in a listen-only mode. Later we will conduct a question and answer session. Instructions will be given at that time. As a reminder, this conference is being recorded. I would now like to turn the conference over to our host, Mr. Todd Adair. Please go ahead.

T. Adair:Thanks, everyone, for joining us today. Mark, thanks for taking the time to speak to everyone. As a reminder, Human Target returns with new episodes on Fox Wednesday nights at 8:00 p.m. beginning this Wednesday, March 10, with an episode titled, “Salvage and Reclamation.” And without further ado, we’ll start with the call.

Moderator:We do have a question from the line of Fred Topel with Sci Fi Wire. Please go ahead.

F. Topel:Hi, Mark; thanks for doing the call.

M. Valley:Oh, my pleasure.

F. Topel:It seems like the next couple of episodes deal with Christopher’s history with women. Can you talk about that, and maybe since you’ve done so many awesome things so far this year, what do you have in store for the finale?

M. Valley:Yes, the next episode you’re going to see on the 10th is, yes, on “Salvage and Reclamation” Chance goes back to visit one of his old flames because he’s got a case and someone he has to protect and some things they have to find, and that one’s pretty fascinating. That’s starring Leonor Varela, who’s just a fantastic Chilean actress that came and did that. That episode is a little more of a stand-alone episode, and it does give you a glimpse into Chance’s past, into his past with this particular woman. You get an idea of what his previous jobs might have been, but it doesn’t really, it’s more of a stand-alone episode than something that kind of ties all the rest of the characters together historically. The next episode after that is going to be a little more of, “Baptiste” is going to explain a little bit more about Chance’s past. Not much about his past with women, but it’s going to change more about his past.

F. Topel:Well, ..., right?

M. Valley:Oh yes, she’s in it, which is when he comes back and they sort of figure out a way to convince her to enlist her to help him, and that’s actually a pretty funny scene. But it’s a very intense episode. Lane James from Jericho has come on to play Baptiste who is, sort of, he used to work together with Chance at one time, and they’ve become arch nemeses, or arch nemi, or whatever the plural of nemesis would be, I guess.

F. Topel:So what’s in store for the season finale?

M. Valley:Well, in the season finale, Baptiste comes back. Amy Acker shows up and plays this one character who is very pivotal in Chance’s past in that she was sort of the catalyst for his ultimate change into becoming Christopher Chance. Lee Majors is in that episode. Armand Assante plays Chance’s old boss. There’s a couple of major confrontations there. I think, what’s fun, is Jackie Earle Haley and I have our first fight, even though it takes place in the past, but you can see the roots of their relationship and why they have such a trusting bond as well.

F. Topel:Oh wow, well, thank you.

M. Valley:Yes, it’s going to be exciting.

F. Topel:Yes, I can’t wait.

M. Valley:All right, thanks.

Moderator:Thank you. And the next question comes from the line of April MacIntyre with Monsters and Critics. Please go ahead.

A. MacIntyre:Hey Mark, thanks for your time.
M. Valley:Oh, my pleasure.

A. MacIntyre:So, when did you realize that you had lightning in a bottle with the chemistry between you and Jackie Earle Haley and Chi McBride. When did they come into this project? I’m sure you probably got the script first and then they were added. I was wondering if you could explain that.

M. Valley:Yes, I got the script first. I was the first one cast, I know that. I think we all realized that we had something pretty amazing when we were shooting in downtown Vancouver, the pilot scene, I think it was the very end of the episode, it wasn’t the end of shooting but it was the end of the episode, and rarely are the three of us together in any episode, but in this instance we were. We were getting ready to set up a shot and we were sitting in the back, all sitting in our chairs, and the three of us started talking as actors do, and just realized, my God, we all come from completely different places in terms of parts of the country and experience in the industry and so forth, and the three of us just kind of clicked. The thing that I liked about both of them is that I was just really kind of curious about them and wanted to get to know them better and thought both of them were really kind of interesting. And I think that the three of us sort of had that feeling about each of us, which is kind of cool and rare as well. And I think that kind of shows up on the screen. And maybe viewers will also want to wonder, how did they meet up, or how did they come together, and what was their history?

A. MacIntyre:Absolutely. Will the lovely Anna Torv be guest starring on your series?

M. Valley:Oh, Fringe just got picked up for another season, so.

A. MacIntyre:Yes, but will she make a little guestee on your effort?

M. Valley:Will she? You’re going to have to ask her, but I’d probably think she’s pretty busy with Fringe, so.

A. MacIntyre:Fair enough. Thank you so much.

M. Valley:Sure, you’re welcome.

Moderator:The next question comes from the line of David Martinsdale, Hearst Newspapers. Please go ahead.

D. Martinsdale:Hi. We did an interview before the launch of this season and I go back with you all the way back to Keen Eddie, so it’s good to talk with you again.

M. Valley:Oh, … familiar. How are you?

D. Martinsdale:I’m good, thanks. I’m loving the show, absolutely loving the show.

M. Valley:Are you? Great, thanks. Did you like the other episodes?

D. Martinsdale:Oh, I loved the airplane episode. I loved the episode that was sort of like Die Hard, stuck in the building. What I love about it is that every show is a little bit different.

M. Valley:Yes, they’re like their own individual movies that are tied together somehow.

D. Martinsdale:Yes, that’s got to be part of what really did it for you originally, right? That every show is going to be a different kind of story, not the same story over in a new way.

M. Valley:Yes, that’s what attracted me about it. It was obvious that each episode was going to feel like a movie. It was going to be a lot of work with the director, putting a show together in pretty intense circumstances. And it’s something that hasn’t really been done in a while, if not ever before.

D. Martinsdale:I know that you cannot possibly take risk taking and thrill seeking to the extreme that Chance does, otherwise they would, well, they wouldn’t even let you do the show if you were that much of a daredevil, but how much of a daredevil do you ever allow yourself to be? What are some of the more outrageous adventures that you might have taken? Have you ever jumped out of planes for fun, or any of those things?

M. Valley:Yes, I’ve done that. Well, I haven’t quite done as much of that as I have. I’m a little more into now taking calculated risks. I like to mountain climb and that’s really, the better prepared you are, the safer it is. I don’t just run out and climb a mountain with a T-shirt on, you know? That would be kind of foolhardy. There are some inherent risks, you know, with mountaineering and stuff, but yes, I generally like to be well prepared. I have parachuted. I did it in the Army and I also did it trying to get my certification to parachute down in Paris Island. I did it a few times, and that was pretty exciting, but for the most part, I’d say now the biggest risk I take is probably every once in a while I forget to put my seatbelt on. That’s about the limit of it right now.

D. Martinsdale:The producers of the show probably are happy about that because you’d be uninsurable otherwise, right?

M. Valley:Right, or at least I don’t tell them about it.

D. Martinsdale:Okay. I’ll let some other people talk too, because I did visit with you earlier, but it’s always a pleasure.

M. Valley:Thanks a lot for your support.

D. Martinsdale:You bet. Bye-bye.

M. Valley:See you.

Moderator:The next question comes from the line of Troy Rogers, thedeadbolt.com. Please go ahead.

T. Rogers:Hi, Mark.
M. Valley:Hey Troy, how are you doing?

T. Rogers:Not too bad. I want to know, how much has your military training helped you with acting, especially with Human Target?

M. Valley:It’s funny, because they lay out all these weapons and they talk about the ammunition and so forth and its effectiveness, and, you know, we worked with weapons obviously in the Army, and that made it, but it’s actually something you can pick up pretty quickly. I’d say there are other aspects of it that are similar. The hand-to-hand fighting, I learned a little bit of that in the Army, and boxing and wrestling and that sort of thing. But I think for the most part it’s working as team, working as a team under extraneous circumstances with a limited amount of time to get something done. That’s probably the biggest experience I got from the Army that applies to this job because we’re really making a movie in eight days, and that’s an awful lot of work that has to be done. So, yes, it’s sort of that kind of teamwork and camaraderie that I experienced in the Army that seems to be showing up again here in this show.

T. Rogers:All right, makes sense. Now, so far, you’ve had cases in L.A., Canada, Russian Embassy, the airplane, and now South America. Is there anywhere in particular that you’d like to see Chance travel?

M. Valley:I would like to see Chance go to Paris. I’d like to see him go to London. We do go to London in one episode. What else? Africa, I think, would be kind of an interesting place. There’s all kinds of places he could go. Somewhere down south, maybe Texas. I’d love to do an episode that was sort of a quasi-Western in some way. That would be interesting.

T. Rogers:Yes, that would be cool.

M. Valley:There’s Vietnam and all these other places in Asia that he could go and there’s things going on in China. That would be interesting. You name it. Well, there’s the second season, there.

T. Rogers:True. One more quick thing.

M. Valley:And also the cool thing about this cast and the writers we have is, maybe we could even write an episode that takes place inside a contained area, like the airplane episode, for example. We really didn’t go anywhere for that. That all took place inside the fuselage of an airplane, so maybe we’ll be doing something like that as well.

T. Rogers:All right. Now you mentioned Lee Majors in the finale. I just want to know, what other guest stars can we expect to see in the second half of the season?

M. Valley:Well, we’re going to see – I’m pretty excited about Lee Majors – but you’re going to see Armand Assante. He comes on as my old boss, that one that Chance is talking about – you never met my old boss. So, I finally met my old boss which was fascinating. He’s an interesting guy, a wonderful actor and I’m just really excited that he’s on the show. And then there’s this litany of beautiful, talented women that have come on the show. Amy Ackers in the finale – she plays this really pivotal character in Chance’s life. Grace Park is in an episode called “Corner Man.”

T. Rogers:Oh, cool.

M. Valley:Moon Bloodgood is in one – I forget the name of the episode, they changed it. But Moon Bloodgood is showing up. Leonor Varela is in “Sanctuary,” a beautiful and talented Chilean actress who really, just kind of, made this one episode look and feel like a movie. She just came in and completely took on this character of this ex-revolutionary who lives down in South America, an ex-lover of Chance. She was just fabulous. Lenny James from Jericho has come on and he’s playing Chance’s nemesis named Baptiste, who is probably the most talented assassin who’s still out there working for hire, and he and Chance come to blows in the episode called “Baptiste” and also in the finale. And of course, Emmanuelle Vaugier comes back in another episode that I don’t think you’ve seen yet. She’s in the episode “Baptiste.” She’s still an FBI agent and Chance and Chi and Jackie kind of figure out a way to enlist her help. Also, Autumn Reeser comes back as well. She sort of has a recurring role on our show, and she was in the show about the building that blew up, I think, the kind of Die Hard-esque episode.

T. Rogers:Oh. Okay, cool.

M. Valley:And she’s coming to help us out.

T. Rogers:Okay, thanks Mark. Good luck with the show.

M. Valley:Sure, thank you.
Moderator:Thank you. The next question comes from the line of Steve Eramo with Sci Fi and TV Talk. Please go ahead.

S. Eramo:Hi Mark, thanks for your time today.

M. Valley:Thanks ....

S. Eramo:Good. I wanted to find out if you could tell us what, perhaps, were some of the acting challenges you found first stepping into this role, and then how have you seen the “Chance” character grow and develop in the episodes you’ve shot so far?

M. Valley:It’s funny, when I first read the script, it is based on a comic book character, and there are certain things that comic book characters can get away with that regular actors can’t really do that’s that believable. One is to hold a pose for a long period of time. Like, to look concerned like you’re in a comic book. So, there was that. It sort of had a feel of a comic book so there was a challenge of trying to find a way to bring a real person into this. It wasn’t written in any sort of hyper reality. I mean, John’s writing is very, sort of, there is like a kind of casual thing that can exist in it, so it’s not that hard to kind of do it, it’s not complete melodrama or anything. That was the biggest challenge. Reading it and enjoying it like it could have been a comic book and then thinking, okay, wait a second, this is me now. How am I going to do this? It’s kind of hard to explain but that was the biggest one. And maybe picturing all the other people who could do better at it and thinking, okay, I’m going to do this? Wait a second.

S. Eramo:No, you’re doing a great job.

M. Valley:I think the guy in the comic book looks better. Thanks, though, I’m enjoying it.

S. Eramo:As far as the development of Chance, how have you seen your character grow and develop in the episodes you’ve shot so far?

M. Valley:Well, personally, just me, the way I’ve grown is that I’ve become much more comfortable with some of the action and fighting scenes and the way Chance’s relationship with the other characters is starting to become a little bit more clear. His relationship with Jackie and with Chi is becoming a little big more clear to me. The way Chance is developing? I’d say that he is starting to come to terms with his past. He made a big change in his life about 6-8 years prior to the present that we have now on the show. And I think the reality of why he made that choice and the repercussions that it’s going to have is starting to come back to him, so essentially his baggage is starting to arrive. I think he did about six years ago and Chance is having to open up some old wounds and some old changes that he went through and just to see exactly how that affects him now.

S. Eramo:It was a pleasure speaking with you and continued good luck in the success of the show, Mark.

M. Valley:Thank you very much.

S. Eramo:Take care.

M. Valley:Bye.

Moderator:The next question comes from the line of Will Harris, Bullzeye.com. Please go ahead.

W. Harris:Hey Mark, how’s it going?
M. Valley:Hey Will, good, how are you doing?

W. Harris:Not bad. Well, a lot of shows spend their first season throwing things against the wall to see what sticks. Do you feel like Human Target has found its groove, and if so, was there a particular moment for you when you felt like it really clicked?

M. Valley:I think they’ve been throwing me against a wall for 11 episodes. I’m just joking, it’s a joke actually. I think I’ve been throwing all of Vancouver’s stuntmen against the wall to see what sticks. What was the question again?

W. Harris:Do you think Human Target has found its groove and if so, was there a particular moment when you felt like it really clicked for you?

M. Valley:I think when it really clicked for me was probably the episode “Rewind” where we didn’t have a lot of locations and didn’t have a lot of big set pieces going on. It all took place in an airplane and you got an idea of, okay, very simply, this is something that has to get done in this plane. And it was broken down and all our characters were – well, Chi and I were in the same location shooting as well, which is kind of cool. I think that episode ended the pace that we came up with and that we realized we could work at. I think it was the second or third episode we did. The pace that we came up with and the shorthand that we all developed with the crew and with the cameras and with the actors – it was pretty amazing the result that came out of that. And then we realized oh, wow, this is what we can do. We can make a movie in eight days. Uh-oh, we have ten more to do. That was probably the one point where I realized, oh wow, we’ve got something here.

W. Harris:Did you have a vision for what you expected the show to be when you first came on board, and has it lived up to that?

M. Valley:I didn’t have a pretty clear vision of how it would be. I’d been on shows before that have been new and with this one, not only is the show new and Chi is kind of new to the – I’m new to this genre – even the show runners are sort of new to this, so I went into it with an open mind thinking this is going to be exciting as to how it’s going to come together. And it has, and in the best of … it is sort of a collaboration in some ways where everybody’s influence is, kind of, if not heard, then it’s felt and it’s reacted to and the end product is something that everybody feels a part of. So, that’s kind of what I went into. I think it’s exceeded – it’s a little more tiring than I thought it would be. Actually, no, it’s the other way around. I’m not quite as exhausted as I thought I would be. Does that make any sense?

W. Harris:I think so. Thanks a lot.

M. Valley:Thank you.

Moderator:The next question comes from the line of Brittany Frederick, thetwocents.com. Please go ahead.

B. Frederick:Hi Mark. The first thing I wanted to say is, I’ve had a crush on you ever since Keen Eddie so this has totally made my week.

M. Valley:Okay, thanks, I’m glad you got that out. That would have just been awkward, the whole interview.

B. Frederick:I know, I know. I wanted to ask, how do you balance comedy and drama on the show? Particularly in your performance as well, you always seem to bring the humor to parts where other people wouldn’t, but it doesn’t get too serious either. How do you guys manage that?
M. Valley:That’s something that I really love to do is to find the light moments. A lot of it depends on the scene and the person you’re working with and where the jokes can come in or where it seems appropriate, where it doesn’t seem appropriate. There’s a few elements that come into that. And, of course, there’s the way the scene is written as well. I generally prefer to – maybe it’s my background on a soap opera where there were no jokes at all. It was all just complete melodrama and I wanted parts of it to be funny so I just remember searching and combing through it and saying, “well, there’s this moment or that moment.” It might have been my experience on a soap where I was just so hungry for something to be funny that I developed, maybe, a perceptive eye for it.

B. Frederick:What’s it like to play a lead character when you don’t have all the pieces of the background? Is that more difficult for you at all?

M. Valley:Well, it’s definitely easier to have some of the pieces. It’s definitely somewhat of an advantage to have a little more of an idea because as actors, we do create characters and create things and create things in our imagination but ultimately we’re an interpretive artist and we’re interpreting what the writers have created. Some people will say that doesn’t matter. If it’s not in the script, it doesn’t really exist so don’t make a big deal about it, but I think in television it’s a little bit different. Yes, it would be nice to know – there’s two sides of that. It would be nice to know it ahead of time because then, maybe I could plan a scene or have that in mind if this might have happened before, but it’s pretty exciting to find it out as you go along with the rest of the viewers. So, not only are you working on a show and acting in it, but it’s also fun to be experiencing it as a viewer as well and finding out things as they reveal themselves.

B. Frederick:Well, thank you, and best of luck with the rest of the season.

M. Valley:Thank you. Thank you very much.

Moderator:The next question comes from the line of Alice Chapman Newgen with The Times Courier. Please go ahead.

A. Chapman Newgen:Hi, great talking to you.

M. Valley:Hi, Alice.

A. Chapman Newgen:You need to come down to Savannah, Georgia and Atlanta and do a show.
M. Valley:Oh yes, I’ve been to Savannah and I love it down there.

A. Chapman Newgen:Oh cool, that’s where I’m from. I was wondering, was there any particular scene that didn’t come across quite the way you thought it would?

M. Valley:I have to say that the – let’s see, no, but there was a scene that did probably come off the way I thought it would, which is the one with the spider in the back of the wagon. I didn’t think it was funny when we did it, and I don’t think it’s funny now. The spider gag, I just don’t think it worked, I hate to break it to you. Other scenes that have turned out differently? I think there was one with Jackie Earle Haley that I had the other night, where Chance decides not to – well, I don’t want to spoil anything for anybody, but there’s a real important, kind of flashback to a scene between Chance and Guerrero where they’re fighting each other to the death, almost, and you find out a lot about their past and that relationship. That scene ended up being much more intense but moving as well than I imagined it to be.

A. Chapman Newgen:Is there any particular topic that you would like for your character to delve into in a future episode?

M. Valley:I think what the writers are coming up with is fine. I like getting a script and getting a fresh idea laid out on desk and I just dig into it and take it from there. I’d say no, there’s really nothing that I’d like him to do, maybe a little more jujitsu instead of all this kicking and punching. Maybe a little more wrestling.

A. Chapman Newgen:Okay.

M. Valley:Oh, there was one more thing. What was it that I wanted him to do? Yes, I want to learn how to fly a helicopter, that would be interesting.

A. Chapman Newgen:That would be. Absolutely. I appreciate your time, thank you very much.

M. Valley:My pleasure, thank you.

Moderator:The next question comes from the line of Raju Mudhar, The Toronto Star. Please go ahead.

R. Mudhar:Hi there, Mark. You may have already answered this but, I was just wondering, how much of the comics did you actually read in preparing for the role because, obviously, the show is very different?
M. Valley:Yes, yes. I read about four or five of the previous comics, the original DC comics, and then I read all of the Vertigo ones, the graphic novel ones.

R. Mudhar:Okay, and obviously the difference is, sort of, the loss of the master of disguise thing. Is that ever going to make an appearance, do you think?

M. Valley:Nobody’s ruled it out. Nobody’s left it out there. I know John’s attitude was like, let’s start the show where you get to know the central character before we start dressing him up and having him come out as Dabney Coleman. So, that was his idea. Chance does have an aptitude with languages and my theory with that is he doesn’t use any more than is necessary. I mean, he doesn’t wear a mustache or wear glasses or anything if it’s not really necessary, or really become that other person unless it’s absolutely necessary to do that. He’s been able to get away with it by playing somebody close to them or somebody near them or so forth, because those rubber masks can get really warm. Yes, that was an adaptation, I think, but that’s not to rule that out. I look sort of like Thomas Jane. If that show on HBO doesn’t work … episode, I could be him from a distance, you know.

R. Mudhar:Okay, the other question is, just being from Canada, obviously the Olympics just happened here. Did that wreak havoc with your shooting at all? Did you get to check them out, or did you guys shut down during that time?

M. Valley:We shut down for about two days during the Olympics, but for the most part, it wasn’t really that bad. The Canadians had everything really well organized. You knew what streets were being shut down and where to divert, but we just shot in some locations outside of, still in Vancouver but on the fringes of town so it was a lot easier for us to get to where we had to go. Traffic wasn’t really that bad, except on the day after they beat us in hockey. Oh my God, you could not walk across the street. Yelling, and everybody’s wearing a red shirt and waving the flag and the streets were just heaving with people walking up and down. I was blown away. I couldn’t believe the outpouring of Canadian nationalism.

R. Mudhar:And we’re still feeling the buzz over here. Thank you so much for your time.

M. Valley:My pleasure.

Moderator:And the final question comes from the line of Suzanne Lanoue, TV MegaSite. Please go ahead.

S. Lanoue:Thank you. It’s nice to talk to you. I’ve been a fan of yours ever since Days of our Lives. I used to watch you …, followed your career. I loved Keen Eddie and …

M. Valley:Thank you very much.

S. Lanoue:You were talking about the rigors of being on action shows. It seems, in a way, that you’ve built your way up there because you played an ex-Marine on Boston Legal, and Jack was always on the run. And, of course, Keen Eddie was kind of an adventure, sort of, and Fringe. But what I was wondering is, if you’d modeled Chance at all on any particular character, actor, seems like almost a throwback to the old ’60s,’70s, like Clint Eastwood – the strong, silent type.

M. Valley:You know, it’s funny, with Chance as a lawyer, I sort of feel like he could be Brad Chase. There’s sort of this coterie of actors’ characters that I’ve played that I could draw on for Chance to use. Sometimes I have, and sometimes I haven’t, to any meaningful effect, done that. But, yes, I’ve sort of based him on – sometimes I think, how would I act if I were in these circumstances and if I could be whoever I wanted to be? How would I deal with it? And I use that. I don’t know how much those kind of stars influence me. It’s amazing. I could go back and watch Die Hard or Indiana Jones and you see certain moments that these guys did, and you realize, oh my God, that was something. Or watching Lee Majors on the Six Million Dollar Man I think, oh wow, that’s where I get that little thing. You never really know, there’s so many different influences, I guess. I base it in some ways by a friend of mine that I knew when I was in the Army, in some ways. I knew one guy who kind of had this sort of attitude. And those are things that go into the mix when I first start building a character and then it kind of gets on its own feet and it’s moving along. But those have been my influences, I suppose.

S. Lanoue:Well, that’s really interesting, and it does seem like the show is almost, not quite, I don’t want to say a throwback because that’s a negative thing, but it reminds me a lot of the shows that I grew up with in the ’60s, like It Takes a Thief and Wild, Wild West and these action shows.

M. Valley:Yes, yes, I would have to say the biggest influence was probably, who’s the guy in Wild, Wild West?
S. Lanoue:Yes, it was a great show.

M. Valley:What was his name, that guy’s name on Wild, Wild West?

S. Lanoue:Robert Conrad.

M. Valley:Robert Conrad. Yes, I’d say his Eveready battery commercial, probably the biggest influence on my work.

S. Lanoue:Yes, right.

M. Valley:It was in ... I can’t remember what kind of battery? He was like, “Go ahead, knock it off. I dare you.”

S. Lanoue:I think it was Eveready.

M. Valley:Was it Eveready? That’s the biggest influence. That’s Chance, right there.

S. Lanoue:I think so, it sounds familiar. But you’re a better actor than Robert Conrad. I like him a lot but you’re way better.
M. Valley:Thank you very much.

S. Lanoue:And I hope the show gets even more successful. It sounds like Fox is really doing everything it can to bring in great guest stars.

M. Valley:Yes, they’re giving it a great roll out and they’re happy with what they’re getting. It’s beautiful.

S. Lanoue:That’s good. Well, good luck on it.

M. Valley:Thank you very much. Thanks. Bye.

T. Adair:Thank you, everyone, for participating in the call today. Mark, thanks again for taking some time out to do this.

 ABOUT MARK VALLEY: MARK VALLEY (Christopher Chance on HUMAN TARGET)

Mark Valley is a versatile film and television actor who is known equally for his comedic, witty turns as he is for his dramatic, weighted performances. Valley is a familiar face to FOX viewers having appeared as "FBI Agent John Scott" on the hit drama FRINGE. His additional television credits include a three-year run as "Brad Chase" on "Boston Legal," starring roles on "Keen Eddie" and "Pasadena," as well as recurring roles on "Once and Again," "ER," "The 4400" and "Swingtown."

His film credits include John Schlesinger's "The Innocent," "The Siege" with Denzel Washington, John Frankenheimer's "George Wallace," "The Next Best Thing" with Madonna and Rupert Everett and "Shrek III" as the voice of "Cyclops." Valley also wrote and performed in "Walls, Wars and Whiskey," a one-man show about his experiences growing up in upstate New York and serving in the military.

Valley graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point, and began his acting career while serving overseas in the Army. The Gulf War veteran is a native of Ogdensburg, NY, and currently divides his time between Vancouver, Canada and Los Angeles.

UPCOMING EPISODE INFORMATION: CHANCE'S SEARCH FOR LOST TREASURE IN SOUTH AMERICA REUNITES HIM WITH AN OLD FLAME ON AN ALL-NEW"HUMAN TARGET" WEDNESDAY, MARCH 10, ON FOX

Chance reunites with a fiery former flame when he is called to South America to rescue an archeologist whose discovery of a lost treasure has him targeted by a South American army and a deadly bounty hunter in the all-new "Salvage & Reclamation" episode of HUMAN TARGET airing Wednesday, March 10 (8:00-9:00 PM ET/PT) on FOX. (HUM-108) (TV-TBA)

Cast: Mark Valley as Christopher Chance; Chi McBride as Winston; Jackie Earle Haley as Guerrero

Guest Cast: Kris Marshall as Doug; Leonor Varela as Maria; Kim Coates as Bertram; Luis Javier as Alberto; Bruce Ramsay as Vazquez; Frank Topol as Pablo

 In "Salvage and Reclamation," Chance (Mark Valley) reunites with a fiery former flame (guest star Leonor Varela) when he is called to South America to rescue an archeologist (guest star Kris Marshall) whose discovery of a lost treasure has him targeted by a South American army and a deadly bounty hunter (guest star Kim Coates).

In "Baptiste," Chance's past comes into focus when he recruits FBI Agent Emma Barnes (guest star Emmanuelle Vaugier) to help him stop his former partner from assassinating a visiting foreign dignitary. Meanwhile, Guerrero (Jackie Earle Haley) tests out a familiar face (guest star Autumn Reeser) as a possible new recruit to the team.

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