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Zach Gilford whitethorn beryllium a caller subordinate successful the Criminal Minds universe, but that doesn't mean he's a alien to the franchise. In an exclusive interrogation with E! News, the Friday Night Lights alum revealed that helium erstwhile auditioned for the OG show, which ran connected CBS betwixt 2005 and 2020.

"It was 1 of my archetypal auditions that I ever had," helium recalled. "For the pilot! So I've been alert of the amusement forever."

He adjacent joked that he'd get "so mad" whenever he'd drawback an episode, due to the fact that the archetypal Criminal Minds was "so good."

Now Gilford stars successful the reboot, titled Criminal Minds: Evolution, as Elias Voit, "an operations expert for a planetary cyber-security steadfast who has a acheronian broadside and an obsession with death," according to Paramount+. In short: Elias is the adjacent large atrocious for the BAU to catch.

And don't expect Agents Rossi (Joe Mantegna), Prentiss (Paget Brewster), Lewis (Aisha Tyler), Alvez (Adam Rodriguez), Garcia (Kirsten Vangsness) and Jareau (A. J. Cook) to drawback him successful under 60 minutes similar successful its predecessor. Criminal Minds: Evolution follows the squad implicit the people of 10 episodes, as, per the streamer, they enactment to instrumentality down "an UnSub who has utilized the pandemic to physique a web of different serial killers."

For Gilford, this accidental to stock much astir the UnSub let Criminal Minds: Evolution go to "scarier" caller heights, adding, "You commencement to think, 'This could beryllium your neighbor, this could beryllium idiosyncratic astatine my kids' school.'"

The show's determination from CBS to Paramount+ has also allowed Criminal Minds to go adjacent darker—which we thought was intolerable until now! But, arsenic Gilford detailed, being connected the streamer permitted the performances and communicative to beryllium "a small much natural."

"Being connected networks, there's handcuffs," the Midnight Mass histrion noted. "The biggest happening is having 55 minutes versus 42. It allows them to soma everyone out. And past to person the 10 occurrence arc, you get to benignant of bash a 10 hr movie."

Curious to spot however Criminal Minds has evolved? Catch Criminal Minds: Evolution when it premieres with 2 episodes Nov. 24 connected Paramount+.