When Zach Gilford signed on to play Elias Voit on "Crimnal Minds: Evolution," it was clear he'd need to push himself into some pretty dark places. He did, after all, sign on to play the first season-long unsub the blood-spattered world of "Criminal Minds" has ever created. The task was all the more towering as Gilford was also claiming a role that was far darker than arguably anything he'd ever been asked to play prior.
Thankfully, the actor leaned headlong into the darkness for "Criminal Minds: Evolution," creating what some believe to be the most dangerous unsub the BAU has faced. Of course, part of what made Voit so memorable, and so tricky to play, is that the series spent so much screen time away from his life as a calculating, cold-blooded killer, focusing often on his life as a caring father and husband. And as complicated as that storytelling got, it was even more so for Gilford because his onscreen partner was played by his real world wife Kiele Sanchez.
Things understandably got dicey between Elias and Sydney Voit by season's end. And as Gilford told Entertainment Tonight, shooting those tense scenes with his actual wife felt like a decidedly different sort of acting gig. "It's one thing when you do these scenes with an actress and you're imagining," he said, adding, "But then when you're actually having these interactions with your wife, but you're in this make-believe experience, it almost feels like bad therapy role-playing."
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