![]() ![]() My family is so important to me and I’m lucky to feel connected to both my dad’s American roots and my mom’s Korean heritage. What other passions and interests do you pursue outside of filmmaking? New challenges keep me on my toes, they keep me inspired and excited for what I’ll learn next. It definitely was, but that is one of the best things about it. That seems like a big switch from investigative drama to epic fantasy! We’ve actually just begun filming the second season even though the first season won’t premiere until later this year. This was an amazing project because the world building was produced on an epic scale and the setting and story are so fantastical and yet so relatable. I’m back on-screen as Lan (al’Lan Mandragoran) in Amazon Prime Video’s TV adaptation of the “Wheel of Time” novel series. Ironically, that's groundbreaking stuff on TV in 2016.Now that “Criminal Minds” has ended, what are you working on next? It's ours.”īut at least we know who the good guys and the bad guys are. At one point while talking about police in Thailand, where three American volunteers have gone missing, Jack declares, “It's not their job to worry about missing Americans. Having seen the first episode, it seems the gang has a bit of a blind spot with regard to, um, international jurisdiction. Season 1 takes the story to Thailand, Belize, Mexico, India, Cuba, Morocco, Egypt, Turkey, France, Japan, South Africa, Spain and Haiti. Sinise's Jack Garrett leads the unit, and he's joined by Clara Seger (played by Alana De La Garza), Matthew Simmons (Daniel Henney), Russ “Monty” Montgomery (Tyler James Williams) and Mae Jarvis (Annie Funke). The show follows a specialized International Division of the FBI that comes to the rescue of Americans in danger while abroad. The comfort of home life notwithstanding, Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders basically is Criminal Minds on a world tour. “There's a whole faction of law-enforcement people, FBI agents, CIA folks, police officers, fire-fighters and whatnot, who raise their kids and have families and somehow find a way to navigate the home life with the job.” They're not all guys who just can't go to sleep at night. And that is represented in so many of our law-enforcement officials, actually. ![]() “(Garrett) is a law-enforcement officer, a public servant, but he has a successful family life, he's got a lot of kids, he's married to his high school sweetheart. “Having been on television for nine years (on CSI: New York), where I was playing a grieving 9/11 family member who had lost his wife and was a bit of a loner who put everything into the job, we liked the idea of going in another direction. ![]() “We discussed early on the type of person he (Sinise's character, Jack Garrett) might be,” Sinise said. But like Messer, he believes that if you're tackling disturbing subject matter anyway, the protagonists don't always have to be morally compromised.Īnd they don't always have to be inherently sad, either. Kidding aside, Sinise does understand the attraction of those “grey” shows, too. But we're not going to dislike them.”Īdded Sinise with a smile, “Why do you want to watch that?” Not that they aren't complex humans, because they definitely are, and we'll find out what makes them tick. We already have bad in every episode, and we don't want it to come from our heroes. But we already are taking you into the dark every week, and we're scaring you. “Tony Soprano, I understand that kind of hero. You're never going to have to worry about them doing the right thing. “And it's really great when your good guys are just good. “This series and this franchise now is very much about good guys and bad guys,” Messer declared. It's a spinoff, of course, from the highly successful and long-running procedural Criminal Minds. I've thought about this quite a bit, and it came into my mind again when I was listening to lead actor Gary Sinise and creator Erica Messer talk about their new series Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders, which debuts Wednesday, March 16, on CBS and CTV. We're to the point where shows that actually have clearly defined good guys and bad guys are the shows that truly are different. But many actors and producers still talk as if it's something brand new. Most TV dramas have been about the “grey” for a long time now. The fact is, we do see that every day, on virtually every show on TV. I can't tell you how many times over the past 10 years I've heard actors say that what they like about their characters and their shows is that nothing merely is black and white, there's a lot of grey, and you don't see that every day, blah blah blah. It's funny how “the new” can become “the norm,” and yet it takes a while for our conversations to catch up.
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