Ahead of the release of “Criminal Minds: Evolution” on Thanksgiving Day, actor Joe Mategna spoke with NBCLA about his past, present and what’s next.
Unlike previous seasons which feature standalone episodes, the new season will have a continual narrative thread weaved through ten episodes. It will center around the greatest threat yet – an unsub who used the pandemic to build an entire network of serial killers. The network begins to operate as the world starts opening back up, and the team is faced with tracking down one murderer at a time.
Mantegna said that because the new season was developed specifically for digital streaming, they were able to avoid the restrictions that come with network television which he thinks ultimately allowed for more authenticity in the characters. By no longer having to temper some of the aspects of who the characters are and what they do and say, he believes they can portray the profession and cases as realistically as possible.
“It can be a horrific occupation and it gives me incredible respect for what these men and women do every day,” he said, noting that he has visited the Quantico, Virginia office numerous times and has several friends in the FBI both former and current. He said he feels like it would be disrespectful to claim his onscreen portrayal of an agent is “hard” because he’s merely doing the fake version of what so many other individuals do in real life.
“If they finish an episode and want to watch another one, then we’ve succeeded in my opinion,” he stressed. “We’ve done the season in a way that has kept that door open; there are a lot more stories to tell and hopefully we’ll get the chance to do so,” Mantegna said. “We’re enjoying what we’re doing right now and hopefully the public will too.”
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