Get Smart's Masi Oka 'pretty geeky'

7:21pm Wednesday 20th August 2008

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Masi Oka is perfectly suited to his role as techie Bruce in new movie Get Smart as he reckons he's "pretty geeky" himself.

"I do have a tech background so I am pretty geeky," says the Heroes star, who previously worked as a CGI artist at special effects company ILM, and now teams up with Nate Torrence to play a gadget expert in the spy spoof.

"We're kind of the Q equivalent, I call ourselves R and S, we're one step ahead of Q," says Masi. "We're the gadget guys. We support our agents with great gadgets"

"No one will admit it but we're the backbone, we keep those agents alive," adds Nate who plays Lloyd.

And fans who can't get enough of the pair in the movie will be able to check out their new spin-off DVD, Get Smart's Bruce and Lloyd: Out Of Control, which will be released in the UK on September 1.

"It's a full length feature on the same time line as Get Smart," reveals Nate. "It's basically what we're doing back in the lab when Agent 99 and Max go off on their mission. Something happens that we have to take care of and we become agents ourselves basically."

"We become the action heroes," adds Masi. "We don't have to do big stunts where we have to jump off a cliff and possibly hurt ourselves. It's so much fun, more gadgets, more action, more comedy, more romance."