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Winters: It’s unnerving how sweet the guys is. You meet Vince and it’s hard to fathom he wrote Breaking Bad.

Duhamel: Like, you could be a total dick and you’re not.

Winters: We’ve worked with guys that have egos the size of Montana and David is not that guy. He’s just a very intelligent, soft spoken, knows what he wants guy which is a nice attribute for a showrunner.

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Q:Battle Creek is a procedural. What differentiates it from the million others on TV?

Winters: This is the first time where the partners aren’t buddies. This is a cop show where they don’t trust each other and they don’t like each other but they have a quiet mutual respect for each other and I think that’s a fresh take.

Duhamel: It’s different then anything you’ve seen on Global or CBS because the crimes we investigate are small town. There’s nothing sexy about them. There’s also murders and kidnappings but the one thing I love about it was the pitch of being about the characters rather than being about a weekly procedural. It felt more like an office space show than a cop show.

Q: Josh, you play a seemingly perfect FBI agent who gets reassigned to a small town so the audience knows he’s done something wrong. Did the showrunners inform you what that was in advance?

Duhamel: David and I had a lot of conversations about where this character was headed. I had a lot ideas and the more we talked about it the more it really became clear to him. He didn’t really tell me what it was going to be until the end but the hardest part of this role was showing restraint, knowing there’s a lot more to him then what was on the page: knowing that he does have everybody’s best intentions at heart, he really is a good person, yet we all knew that wasn’t the case. It was about me not ever tipping to that.