The following contains spoilers for episode 1 Criminal Minds: Evolution Season 2.
The BAU’s David Rossi is literally haunted by Elias Voight after he was imprisoned and nearly killed.
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As revealed Criminal Minds: Evolution In the Season 1 premiere (which began just two weeks after the events of last year’s finale), flesh-and-blood man Voight (Zach Gilford) is chilling in federal prison while Rossi (Joe Mantegna) is “visited” and taunted by the ghost of a serial killer once known as Sicarius.
In “Ghost Voight” scenes (as they were called on set), Gilford’s character would “appear” out of nowhere and then eerily “disappear” as the camera hid behind a pillar or other obstacle.
But while it may seem like visual effects and editing tricks are being used to bring Ghost Voight on and off screen, Criminal Minds: Evolution Just chasing Guilford in and out of frame!
“It was all hands-on.” Criminal Mind “In the car in the first episode, [Ghost Voit] We were sitting there and Rossi leaned forward and Alves knocked on the window and Zach literally [crouching] under.
“Then Prentiss comes into the office and Zach disappears from view,” Messer adds with a laugh. “As the season goes on, different directors try different things, but we all just tried to stay focused on acting in front of the camera.”
Guilford himself recalls: “During the round table scene in the first episode, I was literally hiding under the table, crouching for cover – we all had to do that scene. Talk Talk TalkWhile Kirsten crouched down [Vangsness]’ feet.”
Mantegna praised the low-tech approach, saying “sometimes the old-fashioned is the best,” while Gilford, who directed the eighth episode of this season, suggested that “just a subtle camera movement, suddenly you’re there and suddenly you’re gone, makes it a lot more interesting visually.”
But Ghost Voight actually obtain Gone? What will it take for Rossi to shake off the not-so-friendly ghost?
“Well, we’ll see,” Mantegna teases. “That’s part of the intrigue about where we’re going.”
“It’s clear that David is upset about having someone with him that he doesn’t want,” Mantegna said. “But he’s a man of enormous self-esteem and would be the last to ask for help or assistance.”
Explaining Rossi’s rather calm attitude (/denial?), Mantegna says, “I once saw a quote at a dry cleaners where I live that basically said, ‘If you have to walk through hell, walk through it like you own it,’ and I think in this particular situation, that was David Rossi.”
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