Line #17 Trivia/StrikeBack


1	* ActorLeavesCharacterDies: When ''Project Dawn'' was announced, Creator/RichardArmitage was already involved with filming ''Film/TheHobbit''. Due to Armitage's limited availability for the show, Armitage's character, John Porter was killed off in the show to inject drama into the show.
2	* CaliforniaDoubling:
3	** [[UsefulNotes/SouthAfrica Cape Town]] stands in for a variety of international locations. Averted in episodes three and four, which are set in and around Cape Town.
4	** episodes five and six of ''Vengeance'' are the aversion. The final episodes take place in South Africa as well.
5	** For ''Shadow Warfare'', episodes 1-4 are shot in Cape Town, the rest of the series in Budapest. Episodes 5 and 6 are again the aversion. Episode 1 is pretty obvious when a road in "northern California" has a white center dividing line and yellow fog lines on the sides--the exact ''opposite'' of road markings in the United States.
6	** For ''Legacy'', Hungary stands in for North Korea, Austria and Switzerland.
7	** For ''Retribution'', filming locations in Johor, Malaysia, are used to double for Myanmar, India, and Indonesia. Even two segments supposedly set in frigid and snowy Russia were filmed in Malaysia. Averted in Episodes 1 and 2, which take place in Malaysia.
8	* CreatorBacklash: Creator/SullivanStapleton grew embarrassed of his character's frequent sex scenes because they didn't do much to advance the plot and because he'd have to simulate sex with actresses he'd meet just before shooting said scenes. He eventually asked the writers to at least give some sort of explanation as to why Scott was so promiscuous, leading to the revelation, developed through the later portions of Series 3 and throughout Series 4, that Scott had been so traumatized by his experiences that he is desperately searching for intimacy.
9	* FakeNationality: Both the Cinemax leads. Specifically:
10	** FakeBrit: Stonebridge, played by Creator/PhilipWinchester (American).
11	** FakeAmerican: Scott, played by Creator/SullivanStapleton (Australian) and Samuel Wyatt, played by the Australian Daniel [=MacPherson=].
12	** Karl Matlock is also a FakeAmerican, played by Irish actor Vincent Regan.
13	** Pakistani terrorist Latif is played by British actor Jimi Mistry, whose parents are Irish and ''[[{{Irony}} Indian]]''.
14	** FakeRussian: Serbian Creator/IvanaMilicevic as Albanian [[TheMafiya Mafiya queen]] Arianna Demachi. . .who turns out to be a Russian agent, and English/Turkish actress Yasemin Allen as Katrina Zarkova.
15	** Zibabwean political activist Walter Latulu is played by British actor Creator/EamonnWalker.
16	* FatalMethodActing: Closely subverted during the final action sequence in Episode 10 of "Vendetta". Although Creator/JamieBamber did an otherwise excellent job of piloting the speedboat, he got caught up in the camera boat's wake at one point and nearly capsized. At the speed he was going, he and his co-stars would have indeed have likely been killed or at least seriously injured.
17	* MoneyDearBoy: Chris Ryan was so disheartened by his experiences with ''Series/UltimateForce'' that he was only interested in financial compensation when producers approached him about adapting his novel for ''Strike Back''.
18	* NoStuntDouble: Creator/JamieBamber is driving the boat during the chase sequence in the finale (he has a boat license and was thrilled that the director and stunt coordinator allowed him to use his skills).
19	* PlayingAgainstType:
20	** Creator/MichelleYeoh as Mei Foster. You'll find out.
21	** NiceGuy Creator/JamieBamber adds to the handful of deviations from his customary NiceGuy roles in his role as AntiHero Colonel Alexander Coltrane, who despite being one of the good guys, is often as ruthless as the villains.
22	* ProductionPosse: Frequent director Michael J. Bassett and Creator/PhilipWinchester previously worked together on ''Film/SolomonKane''.
23	* UnderageCasting: Part of Coltrane's DarkAndTroubledPast is an especially traumatic mission in the Balkans in 1992, when he was a lieutenant. At that time, his portrayer (Creator/JamieBamber), would have been only 19 and couldn't possibly have been ranked that high.
24	* WagTheDirector: It was Creator/JamieBamber's idea that Coltrane and Wyatt get into a fight, which he described as "a brothers fight". He also asked to drive the boat during Episode 10's chase scene.

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