Casting sheet for the Criminal Minds spin-off

[katikat]

Sounds interesting...

[COOPER] 45-50.. all ethnicities. The team leader, he's fierce in his loyalty and mysterious in his daily life. A former star profiler in the BAU, he's been off the radar for the last eight years - leaving only a trail of rumors and legend in his wake. He runs a team that exists outside of FBI bureaucracy and is intensely loyal to him.

[GINA] 28-32, all ethnicities. She's strong, intelligent. Raised in a tough neighborhood in Baltimore, she managed to avoid the streets. Got straight-A's. Was the first person in her family to ever go to college. Recruited from school to the FBI, she finished at the top of her class at Quantico but was destined to work deep cover in the same streets she'd managed to escape. Her father died before he could learn that she hadn't wasted her life. After she quit the FBI, Cooper talked her back by inviting her onto his team.

[MICK] 30, all ethnicities. Formerly of the British Special Forces, though he was discharged for reasons that remain classified. Expert sniper. Survivalist. He was educated at Cambridge but his demeanor is more charmingly rakish than posh. He's as adept verbally as he is physically and he knows it sptv050769. Part puppy, part guard dog.

[PROPHET] 30s, African American. A former gang-banger from L.A. He did seven years in prison for drug trafficking but found Jesus in jail. He's street-smart, connected but also incredibly dexterous at quoting scripture. He feels this unit is his chance at redemption - a way to direct his street skills toward a noble end.

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Seems like a very team-oriented show! I wonder who they'll choose to play these characters...

Comments

[spikedluv]

Oh dear god if they actually get someone with an accent for Mick I am So There! *g*

I'm a bit confused, though, as to how Mick and Prophet would fit into an FBI team; sort of the way I'm confused about Ziva's status on NCIS, at the mo.

[katikat.livejournal.com]

I think they fit because the works "outside of FBI bureaucracy" as the sheet says. I'm curious about the actors - they'll make or break the show for me. I mean, NCIS:LA is a passable show, to be honest, but Chris O'Donnell and LL Cool J just make it work for me :P

[spikedluv]

I noticed that, but outside the FBI bureaucracy doesn't mean outside the FBI, and I'm pretty sure there are citizen requirements for joining the FBI, not to mention not being a felon. *g*

[katikat.livejournal.com]

Hm, maybe he has the same status as Neal in WhiCo? *scratches head*

[spikedluv]

Could be. It just sounds like they're trying to be too cutesy about it, especially given that my understanding for the basis of CM was that there is one BAU team, and now there's suddenly another, and it's outside the FBI bureaucracy? I get that they want to make use of CM's popularity, but spin-offs sometimes worry me.

NCIS was going to be different enough (I thought, from reading about it) that it could still be an NCIS team, and not be the same exact thing as the original, even though the whole 'undercover' thing isn't quite as, well, deep undercover as I was expecting, I guess. (Though I agree with you that it's the relationship partnership between G and Sam that makes NCIS:LA work. *g*)