(Source: csi-percypotter)
read this book in one day… I should probably go watch the movie…
” I took away the only person she ever loved, so she’s gonna do the same thing to me”
(Source: amelia-yang)
A preview of the article on Matthew in STATUS magazine.
In order to see it larger you have to click the image and wait for it to pull up a popup window. After that it will change to show a small image of a magazine cover on black. Depending on connection speed, it will load (for me it took several minutes) and display the picture and article with Matthew.
I used something to transcribe the text and then made corrections because the software was flawed.
Driving Mr. Gubler
Is Matthew Gray Gubler as kooky-crazy as the guy he portrays on TV? Well, yes—but not exactly. STATUS interviews the guy who’s made both criminals and audiences succumb to Gublernation.“I love the notion of a really self-centered diva. There’s something inherently comical about it to me.”
As far as Matthew Gray Gubler’s TV and mockumentary characters go, he is either brainy-awkward, or cocky-narcissistic. Seven seasons of playing the lovable genius Dr. Spencer Reid on Criminal Minds (plus a few YouTube episodes of his The Unauthorized Documentary) urges one to wonder how Matthew Gray Gubler might be in real life. If behind the ultra nerdy facade, Dr. Reid is quite the toughie, the 32-year old that plays him exhibits a bit of determination and obsessive compulsion himself. “I like to do everything with a lot of love, and I sometimes worry that others don’t love things as much as I do.” he shares.
With Matthew—MGG-, “Goob- or “Goober” as names his Internet fans like to call him—there’s always that bit of smart seriousness wrapped in the most winsome humor. Asked about his experience of playing Dr. Reid, he describes how insanely fast time has gone by. “It feels like we filmed the pilot last year, and now, to be done with that many episodes, it’s such an honor. Very few people have the luck of getting to play the same character for seven years of their lives.” Owning the character since he was just 25, he jokes about having a support group for people who’ve embodied the same persona for some time. It’d include him and the likes of David Schwimmer and Jerry Seinfeld—with whom he’d discuss “the good and the bad things about having a character for that long.”
A film major-turned-runway and commercial model, former intern of Wes Anderson, and now, one of TV’s beloved geeks, the real Matthew Gray Gubler is an entirely grateful person, and totally unlike the douche he pretends to be on his webisodes. In fact, this little “sideline” is really just a result of his genuine wit and oozing creative drive. “Those are my favorite things I made, and I would like to take all the credit for creating a character loosely based on some surreal experiences. You hear a lot of great stories in the entertainment industry, and I love the notion of a really self-centered diva. There’s something inherently comical about it to me.”
There’s a reason it all feels like playtime for Matthew Gray Gubler, and that’s because he’s always excited at the prospect of novel projects. He’s put up a website full of his doodles and lent his voice to Alvin and the Chipmunks. He’s directed music videos for The Killers and Whirlwhind Heat, and a few episodes for Criminal Minds. Most recently, he was at this year’s Sundance Festival to help promote Excision—a dark comedy about a surgery-obsessed teenager—which he stars in with Traci Lords and the vicious AnnaLynne McCord.
It’s a combination of that drive and natural humor that’s landed him so many projects in Hollywood, although it’s become clear to us after speaking to him that he’s also a bona fide overachiever (much like his TV character who, for the record, holds multiple PhDs). Still. Matthew’s been very modest in his explanation of how he’s gotten far. “I think (it’s been) a great deal of good luck and incredible good fortune. I don’t know what happened, but I was sort of studying film directing in New York, and one day on the way to school someone stopped me for a sort of street casting for a Kate Spade ad campaign.” One creed he does go by is “never saying no to any opportunity,” and thanks to this credo, we can all admire the outcome of that Kate Spade ad, his stints for Marc Jacobs, Tommy Hilfiger, and most recently, an Aldo campaign with Lily Donaldson. In total incontrovertible proof that this geek is not Mr. Awkward at all.
What he is, however, is a little bit off his rocker—not in the paranoid sense Dr. Reid is, but in the imaginative, Willie Wonka/Dr. Who kind of way. For one thing, he’s had, on a fan Tumblr page, pictures of himself being hauled out by some Mounties—captioned “Canadians still don’t like it when you make fun of Alan Thicke!” And in all his adorable, self-deprecating humor, he tells of this little incident: “I randomly thought of the funniest idol of mine that I jokingly make fun of, and Alan Thicke came to mind. And—no joke—two days later I frickin’ ran into Alan Thicke. It was the ultimate Twitter payoff joke!”
Another case in point, if Matthew had it his way, he says he’d love to see Reid “going to the Himalayas to hunt the abominable snowman.” Suggesting possible plot lines, “any way that we can take the show in a more cryptozoological world, I would be very happy with. Or anything with ghosts. But as you can probably imagine, they’re not very keen on a lot of my very outlandish ideas. I wish the show was kind of more surreal!” If all falls into place, that ghost bit will be something he gets to take on his next film project—conjured by the selfsame director as Excision—where he plays a childish man who moves back into his home and is haunted by Civil War ghosts. Matthew remarks, “I’ve never been more excited to play a part in his next movie. I’m very proud of Richard Bates, Jr. He’s 26—so talented and so unique, and his network has an amazing cult response.”
Apart from his creative juices constantly on overdrive, Matthew Gray Gubler is—plainly and simply—thoroughly committed to his craft. “I’m so hands on with everything I do that it’s almost to My detriment.” He recounts how he literally hand-shipped some T-shirts he designed and sold online, and how he’s been “pedal-to-the-metal working hard ten and a half months out of a year.”
With his attention mostly on Criminal Minds, he says, “For me to do a good job playing that character, I have to dedicate a great deal of my mental capacity year after year.”
The hardest part though, he admits, is having to deal with the dark subject matter. Since everything he does, he “tries to pour 150% of himself into,” he says “it can get incredibly painful.” Luckily, he’s quite at ease with Dr. Reid’s antics and crazy chatter. “I can very confidently rattle off a lot of information. I’ve always seen it that Spencer’s weakness is that he talks too much. And it comes very naturally for me. I’m a natural-born rambler.” Or so we’ve noticed.
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kinda long, but totally worth reading… love MGG… he’s a great actor!
notetoafriend asked: can you please post/reply to this with your avatar picture? I ship Greg/Nick so much hah.
Bad news… couldn’t find the exact same pic (strange… I was sure I had it saved…) but here’s one that belongs to the same scene… maybe if some fellow CSI/Greg fan tells us which ep is it from (cause I really can’t remember right now) I can look for it or screencap it myself…
(yay! back to graphics making)
What every traditional, real American family should look like :)
COOL!!! Now let me add in some other examples of what a healthy, happy, traditional, real American family should BE ABLE to look like:
Black families
Mexican and South American families
Middle Eastern families
East Asian families
South Asian families
Native American families
European families
Interracial families of all colors
Jewish families
Muslim families
Buddhist families
Hindu families
Atheist or agnostic families
Single mother families
Single father families
Grandparents raising a family
Foster families
Adopted families
Gay parent families
Lesbian parent families
Transgender parent families
Families with special needs children
Families with disabled children
Families with disabled parents
Families with deaf/hard of hearing parents, deaf/hard of hearing children, or both
Childless couples
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ALL THE FAMILIES ARE FAMILIES!
whoever made this post deserves my total appreciation… no matter how families are like, as long as there is love and support for each person ♥
