Robert Knepper chats with Digital Spy about his character and the way that Prison Break ended.

Robert reveals that he’s happy with the way the series ended. “We talked about so many different possibilities, but I thought the show was a whole as a great book-end. We all agreed that purgatory was the best end for my character. If not, there would have been a lot of people saying, ‘Oh my God - T-Bag’s out!’ I’m very happy with it, especially the reference to the pocket-grabbing thing. We actually had the same costumes from the first season, too. It was a great way to end the whole thing for me.”

As for his favorite part of being a part of the show? “The humour of T-Bag. I loved being this kind of guy who attacked every frickin’ race on the planet! When I did the first episode, it wasn’t funny - he wanted to start a riot against the blacks. I was so worried when that episode aired - being in Chicago - that I would need security. I thought the black population would think I was a racist and beat me up or something! But they were the most vocal about it - they thought it was great! Any time that T-Bag got to shock the hell out of someone, those were my favourite moments.”

Robert says that he never worried whether T-Bag would survive, because he wanted to be present in the moment. “I never thought ahead. I wanted to do the best job I could do. I jumped through all the hoops that you do as an actor and I signed a seven-year contract. I had a friend once who said, ‘T-Bag put the prison in Prison Break’. Once the show hit, I had a good feeling that T-Bag was gonna be in for a long ride.”

So how did his tongue-flicking mannerisms come about? “I’ll tell you how that happened: it was the first part I played where I had facial hair - the crumb catcher - and it tickled me because I was just getting used to it. If you look at it from the beginning, it was really just me feeling my little whiskers! And then I kind of ran with it and it stuck.”

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Robert Knepper opens up on T-Bag’s future, saying that he talked about it with the producers.

“We talked about it, you know,” he told TV Guide Network’s Hollywood 411. “Is he gonna be like Hannibal Lecter? Is he gonna die? Is he gonna go to prison? There are so many choices. I think they picked the greatest one, and I’m not gonna tell you what it is.”

As for his character? “It’s like being a dog,” he said. “They just do anything they want and get away with it. Bulldog, rottweiler, you name it. He’s a little poodle. He’s a Dalmatian. He’s a Doberman. He’s all of them.”

Knepper says that he will miss the cast now that the show has ended family. “When you know the rapport with the guys and you feel it everyday for four years, that’s what I’ll miss,” he said. “We’ll have some new families, but [this] was a great family.”

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On this week’s Mega Minute, Matt Mittovich discusses whether T-Bag’s Prison Break run is about to end?

Matt says that the upcoming episodes appear to focus on Michael, Lincoln, and their mom - so he asked Robert Knepper if he would be MIA during these upcoming episodes.

Robert’s response? “Oh no, don’t you worry! There’s definitely a place for T-Bag.”

Oh, I wasn’t worried!!

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Kristin at E!Online confirms that there is definitely going to be another prison break.

Sources tell me there’s another prison break, and you’ll be surprised at who helps the big escape…T-Bag! Did I mention that Gretchen is also in the slammer?

We already knew about Gretchen and T-Bag being in prison from the previous casting sides, but I’m happy about the confirmation that T-Bag is helping out. It was slightly insinuated in the sides during the Phone C.O. scene when they throw T-Bag into solitary because he “aided and abetted an escape, Mr. Bagwell.”

I’d love your thoughts on this issue… I’m guessing Sara is thrown in prison and T-Bag and Gretchen work to redeem themselves by helping to free her. But what do you think?

Robert Knepper pretends to cry over this being the last TCA for Prison Break. Robert assures us that the rest of the seasons will not solely focus on the boys. T-Bag will be around!

Robert says that he will never say good-bye to Jodi Lyn O’Keefe. He will say good-bye to her character, but not Jodi! “She was a little firecracker,” he says. “It was a psycho Bonnie and Clyde together.“

Oh my gosh, this totally made my day!!!

Ausiello spoke out on the fear of Prison Break being knocked off early. His response was “The ratings aren’t great, but Fox already ordered a full, 22-episode season and they have yet to amend that order.”

He then goes on to chat about a Prison Break spinoff. Seems that they aren’t pitching Prison Break: Cherry Hill anymore. Instead Ausiello says that “Based on what I’m hearing about the next few episodes, producers should bag the women in prison spinoff and pitch Fox Gretchen and T-Bag instead.“

Robert Knepper recently sat down with IF Magazine to chat about T-Bag and Prison Break Season 4 …

The first question they had to clear up was the mustache. Was it Robert’s choice? “I look too much like my dad. [laughs] This would not have been a personal choice,” Robert replies! He says that they figured they had to change the character’s look yet again (going blonde in Season 2 wouldn’t cut it this time around). “The fourth season is all about huge, huge changes that are going on with each of the characters, environment, everything.”

When the third season ended, Robert had a feeling they’d be back for a fourth one … especially with the writer’s strike. He’s also amazed at the popularity of Prison Break world wide. “It’s huge. I just did a press tour in Tokyo. They asked me to come over and it was [a mob scene]. Now domestically, I think [the enthusiasm is] there, but it’s not as feverish,” he says.

But still, even in the States, he has to deal with the fan recognition. “What’s amazing about it is that people take a second to go, “Oh, my God, that’s …” They always have a momentary thing of, “Uh-oh, there’s that guy,” but then they see I’m okay and they come over and talk to me.” Robert says he’s gotten some scary reactions, especially from women who shriek for a moment when they see him! “But then they’re cool,” he says.

Robert doesn’t seem to be too concerned about his character’s survival. “You always hear these rumors that there is no show without T-Bag. You hope for that, but you live each episode – you live in the moment [laughs].”

I doubt he’s going anywhere soon!

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Jodi Lyn O’Keefe spills that Susan B. will be joining T-Bag for Prison Break Season 4, reports the National Ledger.

“When they said this year that there was a possibility they’d team up the two creepiest bad guys, I got so excited. I had a list of people I wanted to work with, and he was on it,” says Jodi.

She continues, saying that it has been an interesting dynamic for the characters. “We’re both jockeying to be in the lead position, but I’m not going to give anything away.”
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Teddy’s back!! Thanks to PBElite.org.

“Can I help you?” a woman asks. “With that smile, you already have!” T-Bag replies.

“I like to think of myself as handicapable,” he says in a later clip.

Looking forward to T-Bag?!?

With Prison Break starting up again tonight there are spoilers flying around!!

Amaury Nolasco told TV Guide that this season has offered an entirely different dynamic for him. “I’d never had more than two lines with [Dominic Purcell] the first season,” he says. “This year, it’s like we have a whole Danny Glover and Mel Gibson thing going on. With Wentworth, I used to say it was like The Odd Couple. With Dom, it’s more like Starsky and Hutch.”

A lot happens in the next five episodes. Pro­ducers insist that, unlike Season 1, viewers won’t have to wait until May for the inmates to escape: There will be a breakout from Sona and not everyone will get out alive.

And get this, Michael will take someone’s life!

“Nobody’s indispensable. I wouldn’t be surprised if they killed off me or Wentworth or Dominic one day,” Nolasco teases. “I open the script every week and wonder whether Sucre’s still alive.”

Even with a successful escape, Sona will con­tinue to be a key setting, with new inmates calling the lawless fortress home. “Once they break out, there are some main characters left behind in Sona,” Purcell says. “There are some pretty big shocks. But the stuff in Sona has been highly entertaining and fun to watch, so [the pro­ducers] want to keep that alive.”

The season “keeps getting better and better,” promises Robert Knepper. “In the last few moments of the [Feb. 18] episode you’ll be saying, ‘He’s baaack!’ It’s quite a ride to get there.”

The episode, he adds, “has an incredible cliff­-hanger. But as much as people say they want to know what happens, they don’t really because they want to watch it.”

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