Criminal Minds famous person A.J. Cook took a few of her on-the-job coaching out for a spin in the actual world.
Cook, 45, has played Supervisory Special Agent Jennifer “JJ” Jareau for nearly two decades on Criminal Minds and spinoff Criminal Minds: Evolution. Given all of her accumulated expertise, she knew one thing was once flawed when confronted with an unsavory character offscreen.
“I've had to be informed some things that you didn’t necessarily want to know,” the actress solely instructed Us Weekly. “But they have come in useful in my lifestyles. Recently, I dealt with a pedophile and I knew it. I knew it about this man!”
Cook felt like her fingers have been tied, although. “But what do you assert? What do you do?” she questioned. “Then it came out later that he was, and I was like, ‘Boom!’”
While the actress admitted it was “so dark,” she acknowledged as a mother, “that’s a at hand talent to have.” Cook and husband Nathan Andersen are parents to sons Mekhai, 15 and Phoenix, 8.
Aisha Tyler, who has performed forensic psychologist Dr. Tara Lewis within the Criminal Minds universe since 2015, instructed Us Weekly that being on the show has impacted the way in which she watches other crime displays and documentaries.
“I will be able to be like, ‘Oh, that guy completely did it,’” Tyler, 53, mentioned. “‘I imply, take a look at his facial features. Look at how he’s looking up and right as a substitute of down and left.’ He’s obviously mendacity.’”
Tyler additionally admitted that the show has made her “a lot more of a skeptic.”
“I spend a lot more time, each in real-life and when I’m staring at different stuff, on the lookout for people’s non-verbal cues, and internalizing the techniques by which they’re telling you issues with out telling you things,” Tyler stated.
The actress opined that hopefully her skepticism expresses itself “not in a unfavourable manner, simply in a protecting means,” especially in the case of dealing with members of her family.
“I’m like, ‘No, delete that. Don’t open that. Don’t learn that,’” she explained. “I believe we’re realizing that not figuring out what’s actual is truly bad on your psychological health. It’s actually exhausting to move during the global whilst you don’t have basic guideposts about what information is coming to you and whether it’s unique or now not.”
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Or, Tyler joked, maybe it just makes her a in point of fact good wing girl.
“That almost definitely simply makes me louder in a bar,” she advised Us. “I’m like, ‘That man’s stuffed with s—t! Don’t go home with him!’”
Season 2 of Criminal Minds: Evolution premieres on Paramount+ Thursday, June 6.
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