How did Greta, the ever-changing (in person and gender) Buy More employee/CIA agent, come about?
“As most good things on the show do, completely by accident,” Schwartz laughed. Added Fedak, “The way it worked was that we were casting, and Greta was going to be a part on the show in the first episode, and we had the opportunity to cast Olivia Munn. However, she has a television show that was just about to start shooting, so we could only get her for a couple days. So we cast her as Greta, and then we kind of came up with the idea that we …” Schwartz: “But Greta was already written in episode two …” Fedak: “Yes, so we had Greta in episode two.” Schwartz: “We needed a Greta for episode two. And that was going to be Isaiah Mustafa, who we still kept as Greta, and by that point we had realized that that was going to be the part that would be a rotating part in a lot of episodes in the season, but not all.” Keibler, for instance, was Greta last week, and Summer Glau is a future Greta.
