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Criminal Minds: Evolution’s large atrocious is yet hanging up his spiders. In the aftermath of the long-running procedural’s play 19 finale, Zach Gilford — who plays infamous serial killer-turned-Hannibal Lecter-esque informant Elias Voit (who astatine 1 constituent utilized venomous arachnids to execution his victims) for the Behavioral Analysis Unit — confirms that helium won’t beryllium returning adjacent season.
I spoke exclusively with Gilford astir this week’s episode, which saw Voit returning 1 last clip to haunt Joe Mantegna’s Rossi earlier being enactment distant for good. I asked Gilford astir wherever the quality fits successful his assemblage of work, whether he’d beryllium up for returning to the amusement to direct, and his thoughts connected not returning arsenic Voit.
“Well, it's sad, honestly,” Gilford says. “Who knows if I ever bash travel back, but I deliberation Voit is benignant of ever going to beryllium that achromatic whale not conscionable for Rossi, but the BAU. Even though he's gone, he's inactive going to beryllium lingering successful determination somewhere.”
One of Voit’s last scenes saw him popping up arsenic an apparition to Rossi, thing that has been portion of his character’s arc for aggregate seasons. Gilford says that, though helium wishes helium were coming backmost for Season 20, it was a large mode to nonstop disconnected his character.
“I deliberation it's the close mode to bash it,” Gilford says. “Because nevertheless their narration has evolved, the past dependable that Rossi hears is [Voit] giving him shit. You're like, ‘Oh, you deliberation you're going to get escaped of maine that easily? That's not happening.’”
Gilford says that if helium ever does get to instrumentality to the satellite of Criminal Minds, helium has a superhero-inspired thought for a spin-off.
“I've been pitching,” Gilford says. “I deliberation we should conscionable bash a spin-off of my quality and marque it benignant of similar a Suicide Squad thing. [Voit is] intelligibly smarter than everyone successful the BAU. They haven't solved a fucking transgression successful 4 years without me. There are nary existent plans for maine to travel back, but I'll leap astatine it successful a heartbeat, arsenic agelong arsenic it felt not excessively contrived.”
Gilford, who’s directed 2 episodes of Criminal Minds, besides says he’d emotion to instrumentality to the amusement to helm much episodes.
“Oh my God, I'd emotion to spell backmost and direct,” Gilford says. “I'd conscionable emotion to beryllium connected that set. Directing was truthful fun. I emotion our crew. Everyone works truthful hard and they're conscionable excited to beryllium there. It's amusive directing connected a amusement wherever you're a formed subordinate due to the fact that everyone's rooting for you. I'm a hyper-functioning power freak, truthful directing is simply a cleanable occupation for [me].”
Gilford — whose different roles see the TV adaptation of Friday Night Lights arsenic loveable backmost Matt Saracen and successful Mike Flanagan's Midnight Mass arsenic the protagonist Riley Flynn — says that helium doesn’t spot Voit arsenic an aberration connected a resumé filled with characters of each stripes.
“I conscionable similar playing radical who are absorbing and complex,” Gilford says. “Matt Saracen is the epitome of a bully guy. But what made him that was helium was this kid who had excessively overmuch connected his shoulders and helium was doing his best. He was failing astatine times but helium was conscionable trying to fig it out.
“I deliberation 1 of my favourite roles I've played extracurricular [Criminal Minds and] Friday Night Lights would beryllium successful Midnight Mass. [That quality is a] benignant of tortured idiosyncratic who doesn't cognize what to bash with his beingness and, overmuch similar Voit, is saddled with this guilt of his sins. I don't similar playing one-dimensional characters. And that's wherefore I deliberation Voit was truthful cool, due to the fact that arsenic overmuch arsenic he's the astir prolific serial slayer ever, helium has a bosom and he's struggling with it.”
Despite exiting Criminal Minds, Gilford says helium feels fortunate to beryllium attached to yet different long-running character, adjacent if that meant performing for 4 seasons arsenic a serial killer.
“I’ve ever said, arsenic an actor, the archetypal extremity is to work. If you're ace fortunate you person a relation that resonates with radical and radical cognize you for. I got that with Friday Night Lights and I deliberation it's chill to person different 1 with Criminal Minds. It's conscionable chill and it conscionable makes you consciousness like, ‘Okay, I did good.’”
Criminal Minds: Evolution is streaming present connected Paramount+.
Michael Peyton is the Senior Editorial Director of Events & Entertainment astatine IGN, starring amusement contented and sum of tentpole events including IGN Live, San Diego Comic Con, gamescom, and IGN Fan Fest. He's spent 20 years moving successful the games and amusement industry, and his adventures person taken him everyplace from the Oscars to Japan to Buenos Aires, Argentina. Follow him connected Bluesky @MichaelPeyton
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