Spencer Reid
A few months ago, Matthew Gray Gubler spoke about his character - and himself - on Jacki Garfinkel’s Confessions of a TV Maven.
Of Spencer Reid, Gubler says:
I like the fact that in just two years, from the pilot to Ashes to Dust, it’s not the same guy…In the first episode I’m like Macaulay Culkin. I’m so young. Now I look really old and decrepit.
Being held hostage three times, killing two people, and getting pumped full of addictive drugs while being tortured is likely to do that to a person.
“It’s more real if you spend your life hunting bad guys. I’m sure you can’t remain wide eyed,” Gubler says. Gideon was the show’s proof that the profilers couldn’t escape unscathed by the violence they investigate.
Jacki Garfinkel says that the drugs “have greatly been a part of Reid’s storyline since.” I think that quite the opposite is true. It wasn’t given much attention other than a few outbursts by Spencer.
But, says Gubler:
It’s not the end of the drug addiction. I asked the writer who wrote the drug addiction script [Chris Mundy], and he said no…Now it’s just whether or not they pick it up again.
It’d definately make for an interesting third season if something were to develop along those lines. Not that I want Spencer to become a drug addict, but is it realistic to become addicted and then -poof- you’re cured? He is the innocent one on the show, but I’m guessing innocence doesn’t last long in that kind of work.
September 24th, 2008 at 11:15 am
I love you REID
I will never forget you
I cry for you when you was sofering in the serie
Love you
December 12th, 2008 at 6:38 pm
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