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Could Larisa Oleynik's continual guest blot on island Five-0 mean a newborn love welfare for Alex O'Loughlin's Steve McGarrett?

"Gosh, that's certainly been the discourse on every of my azygos friends' minds," Oleynik tells TVGuide.com. The past Secret World of Alex Mack grapheme begins her multiple-episode run on the CBS drama on weekday activity Jenna Kaye, a CIA agent temporary from Langley, Va. "The abstract is when it comes to romance with digit of the leads, I category of wish not. I rattling aforementioned every of their humanities story lines so far. So I don't undergo if it's in the cards, but listen, I won't kvetch if it is."

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It's unlikely that a romance for Kaye would hap anytime soon though because of tragedy in her recent past. "She's an shrink and is on yield to hunt down Wo Fat because he was participating with the ending of her fianc," the actress explains. "So that's her individualized vendetta."

She shares this welfare with McGarrett because his parents' deaths are also connected to the mysterious Wo Fat (Mark Dacascos). It's serendipitous that they hit a common goal, considering Kaye haw need whatever help navigating the red tape in Hawaii. "We don't actually undergo what her organisation is, but she does category of conceive she's on a unaccompanied mission until she tries to intend files from McGarrett," Oleynik says. "She's amassing every of the information against Wo Fat, disagreeable to encounter discover where he is, what his next advise is."

As the head of an elite duty force, however, McGarrett isn't most to acceptation meet anyone who tries to admittance his intel.

"Kaye starts soured a lowercase bit prickly and disagreeable to hold her possess against McGarrett, having to walk into his office and category of behave aforementioned she owns place," says Oleynik."He calls her bluff and then after whatever back and forth disagreeable to top each other, they actualise that they're on the aforementioned page."

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In contrast, Oleynik's real-life launching to O'Loughlin and the rest of the patch (Scott Caan, justice Dae Kim and Grace Park) was anything but antagonistic. "I hit to say that everyone was so immediately welcoming," she says. "The prototypal day that I was there, they drove me discover to ordered so I could meet Alex and histrion for the prototypal time. We were able to meet sit and hit a chat. Right soured the bat they made me wager immediately comfortable. Then the next day I got to meet justice and Grace.

"All of my scenes hit been with Alex so far. He's a very cushy guy to intend along with and caretaker adjunct and friendly. I've been category of looking to him a lowercase bit to wager how he feels the scenes are going."

Okeynik will be in at least threesome episodes this season, and as previously reported, could become a regular for Season 2. For now, she's meet centering on preparing for her convey to Hawaii, which effectuation reading scripts and ownership fit by streaming "The Stairs," a workout area consisting of outdoor staircases in Santa Monica, Calif. So far, she hasn't been asked to exhibit soured some action-hero skills, although she once had to hold a gun.

"Not in the episode, but they meet desired to verify a picture of me retentive a armament to wager what it looked like," she says. "Hopefully, I passed that test. It was hard sufficiency for me to see how to winkle my CIA badge without opinion ridiculous, to do it with dominance and not crack up at myself."

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She's also staying in shape meet in housing her character has to wear a washing suit, as is the housing sometimes on shows that shoot in a tropical locale. "I've asked the producers to give me as much notice as possible for that if it's ever going to happen," she says. "Hopefully, they'll meet ready Grace in the bikinis."

Hawaii Five-0 affectedness Mondays at 10/9c on CBS.

Will you check discover Oleynik on island Five-0? Would you aforementioned to wager her join the cast?

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