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"Criminal Minds" Cast Celebrates 300th Episode Milestone
Joe Mantegna has nary plans to enactment down his badge immoderate clip soon.
The actor, who reprised his relation of FBI Supervisory Special Agent David Rossi for the Criminal Minds revival, aptly titled Criminal Minds: Evolution, revealed to E! News he's assured that the BAU has much stories to tell.
"First of all, we did 325 of the different mentation of it," helium said of the anticipation of Criminal Minds: Evolution returning for much episodes. "We didn't halt due to the fact that we said, 'OK, we're done. We ran retired of stories.' We've worked with the FBI. We've had method advisors from time one. And they'll fto you cognize that there's millions of stories. We haven't adjacent scratched the aboveground successful presumption of the kinds of stories that are retired there."
Though there's plentifulness of worldly to enactment with, Mantegna said the existent origin is conscionable being "given the accidental to constitute them and bash them."
"You look astatine immoderate of these soap operas that person been connected the aerial for 20, 30, 40 years," helium added, "and radical inactive are loyal followers. And I get it, beingness goes on, and it goes connected with the BAU arsenic well."
For now, Mantegna is focusing connected the existent play of Evolution, which is meant to work the loyal fanbase.
"I deliberation what we've done is created a play that volition beryllium the eventual satisfaction to those of america who person been loyal followers of the amusement for the full 15 years," helium shared. "And also, hopefully, volition beryllium for idiosyncratic who's watching it for the archetypal clip and is going like, 'Oh, wow, this is cool.'"
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As for however they've created this unthinkable instrumentality experience? Plenty of Easter eggs.
"There volition beryllium immoderate things successful each episode," Mantegna promised. "I deliberation that volition beryllium a revelation to radical who cognize the amusement and beryllium capable to say, 'Oh, convey you for reasoning astir the loyal fans and giving america a small something.'"
And beryllium definite to support your eyes peeled, arsenic helium teased that there's "one successful peculiar that I deliberation is going to beryllium massive."
New episodes of Criminal Minds: Evolution get Thursdays connected Paramount+.
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