USA Today Article
07/23/07
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Las Vegas Weekly Article
04/25/07
Who's Beautiful?
According to Las Vegas Weekly, Matthew. Check out the article below by clicking
on the link to read all about it. You have to scroll ALL the way down to find
The Gube, he is at the very bottom.
Jacki Garfinkel's Confession of a TV Maven
04/10/07
MGG INTERVIEW
MGG INTERVIEW
Razzie Awards
02/25/07
www.razzies.com
Well, bad news MGG fans and MGG himself. R.V., the movie where Matthew played Joe Joe the redneck, won a Razzie for Worst Excuse For Family Entertainment. Razzies, aka The Golden Raspberry Awards, are awards given out to the worst celebrities and movies and are announced the night before The Academy Awards. Check out the web site above to learn more. And as for Gube and R.V., I still recommend renting it just for the 3 minute Matthew scene. It is incredibly different than the role we are used to seeing him play weekly as Dr. Reid. And that my friends shows versatility which makes MGG an even more amazing actor!
www.razzies.com
Well, bad news MGG fans and MGG himself. R.V., the movie where Matthew played Joe Joe the redneck, won a Razzie for Worst Excuse For Family Entertainment. Razzies, aka The Golden Raspberry Awards, are awards given out to the worst celebrities and movies and are announced the night before The Academy Awards. Check out the web site above to learn more. And as for Gube and R.V., I still recommend renting it just for the 3 minute Matthew scene. It is incredibly different than the role we are used to seeing him play weekly as Dr. Reid. And that my friends shows versatility which makes MGG an even more amazing actor!
Las Vegas City Life by Tommy Marth
http://lasvegascitylife.com/articles/2005/06/09/film/film01.txt
Here is an older article I found about Matthew and his short film The Cactus That Looked Like A Man. Its dated back in 2005 but of course we don't mind! Enjoy!
The life cinematic with Vegas filmmaker Matthew Gray Gubler
BY TOMMY MARTH
When film students finally get hands-on experience with a camera, the resulting product is often a droll, abstract and emotionally unstable film about a boy/girl who meets his/her significant other. The significant other leaves, boy/girl kills him/herself with a rusty straight razor, and the final death scene alternates between sepia, black and white, and color to make sure everyone notices the microcrystalline blood substitute that came courtesy of their film's financier -- i.e. the director's mother.
Matthew Gray Gubler's mother, unbiased as she is, thinks he has put together the finest collection of short films ever. She declares so on the sleeve of his DVD, which contains cinematic bursts such as Dead or Retarded and My Favorite Friend. But during his enrollment at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, Gubler's professors didn't know what to make of one of the films now included on the DVD. The Cactus That Looked Like a Man ran twice as long as the standard student short.
"The faculty had an argument over the film -- they didn't even want to show it because people were offended," says the 25-year-old filmmaker. "They tell you to not do more than 15 minutes in film school, but you tell a joke until you get to the point, however long that takes."
There was another problem the pedagogues had with Gubler's wry sense of humor. "It ends on a happy note, but you have to side with someone who is not the most savory of characters. It's not good guy versus bad guy; it's more like bad guy and bad guy."
During Gubler's senior year, he was required to intern. "I found Wes Anderson in the NYU pages and just sent him some of my older movies with a note. That was a really lucky thing because I'm not usually that forceful or anything." That internship led to a role in Anderson's The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, in which Gubler plays the intern whose arm is cut off. He was then cast in the CBS pilot, "Quantico," which debuts in the regular fall season under the new title "Criminal Minds."
But Gubler prefers to leave the acting to others in his own films. In Cactus, longtime Vegas scenester and Killers' road manager Ryan Pardey plays the part of Henri French, a loser city boy who goes looking for the romanticized West he reads about in a book. The film centers on his encounter with murderous recluse Rancher Croon, who befriends the naive French with salt-water taffy and music instead of killing him.
Many filmmakers can be described as an actor's director, a producer's director or a writer with a camera. Gubler is all of the above. He allows the story to dictate direction and acting. His writing is succinct but descriptive. His shooting style is aggressive but mature. He doesn't arbitrarily use crane shots and camera gimmicks; he shoots without superfluous "creative" distraction. Most importantly, Gubler maintains control over every aspect in the film, saturating frames with key colors when necessary and forcing the actors to give his audience the story. His films look as though they were shot by a seasoned professional.
"I see too many of these characters, especially in student films, who are like, 'Fuck it dude,' like they're too cool for anything -- too apathetic. I enjoy characters like Max Fischer from Rushmore -- anyone flawed with a lot of heart and optimism." Every character Gubler creates or enjoys is an extension of himself: a flawed, optimistic, and passionate human being. And that is why Gubler succeeds where dilettantes fail.
Here is an older article I found about Matthew and his short film The Cactus That Looked Like A Man. Its dated back in 2005 but of course we don't mind! Enjoy!
Cactus flowering
The life cinematic with Vegas filmmaker Matthew Gray Gubler
BY TOMMY MARTH
When film students finally get hands-on experience with a camera, the resulting product is often a droll, abstract and emotionally unstable film about a boy/girl who meets his/her significant other. The significant other leaves, boy/girl kills him/herself with a rusty straight razor, and the final death scene alternates between sepia, black and white, and color to make sure everyone notices the microcrystalline blood substitute that came courtesy of their film's financier -- i.e. the director's mother.
Matthew Gray Gubler's mother, unbiased as she is, thinks he has put together the finest collection of short films ever. She declares so on the sleeve of his DVD, which contains cinematic bursts such as Dead or Retarded and My Favorite Friend. But during his enrollment at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, Gubler's professors didn't know what to make of one of the films now included on the DVD. The Cactus That Looked Like a Man ran twice as long as the standard student short.
"The faculty had an argument over the film -- they didn't even want to show it because people were offended," says the 25-year-old filmmaker. "They tell you to not do more than 15 minutes in film school, but you tell a joke until you get to the point, however long that takes."
There was another problem the pedagogues had with Gubler's wry sense of humor. "It ends on a happy note, but you have to side with someone who is not the most savory of characters. It's not good guy versus bad guy; it's more like bad guy and bad guy."
During Gubler's senior year, he was required to intern. "I found Wes Anderson in the NYU pages and just sent him some of my older movies with a note. That was a really lucky thing because I'm not usually that forceful or anything." That internship led to a role in Anderson's The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, in which Gubler plays the intern whose arm is cut off. He was then cast in the CBS pilot, "Quantico," which debuts in the regular fall season under the new title "Criminal Minds."
But Gubler prefers to leave the acting to others in his own films. In Cactus, longtime Vegas scenester and Killers' road manager Ryan Pardey plays the part of Henri French, a loser city boy who goes looking for the romanticized West he reads about in a book. The film centers on his encounter with murderous recluse Rancher Croon, who befriends the naive French with salt-water taffy and music instead of killing him.
Many filmmakers can be described as an actor's director, a producer's director or a writer with a camera. Gubler is all of the above. He allows the story to dictate direction and acting. His writing is succinct but descriptive. His shooting style is aggressive but mature. He doesn't arbitrarily use crane shots and camera gimmicks; he shoots without superfluous "creative" distraction. Most importantly, Gubler maintains control over every aspect in the film, saturating frames with key colors when necessary and forcing the actors to give his audience the story. His films look as though they were shot by a seasoned professional.
"I see too many of these characters, especially in student films, who are like, 'Fuck it dude,' like they're too cool for anything -- too apathetic. I enjoy characters like Max Fischer from Rushmore -- anyone flawed with a lot of heart and optimism." Every character Gubler creates or enjoys is an extension of himself: a flawed, optimistic, and passionate human being. And that is why Gubler succeeds where dilettantes fail.
Jamaica Gleaner
http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20070203/ent/ent5.html
It's 'Criminal' what CBS is doing after the Super Bowl
published: Saturday | February 3, 2007
It's 'Criminal' what CBS is doing after the Super Bowl
published: Saturday | February 3, 2007
If your network's chiefs give you the slot immediately after the
Super Bowl, they like you. They really like you.
And CBS has every reason to like Criminal Minds This season, the Wednesday series has scored a number of ratings victories over ABC's much-heralded Lost. As a reward, the crime drama gets the plum position following CBS's broadcast of the NFL championship game Sunday.
The episode launches a story that concludes in the show's usual slot February 7, with FBI profiler Spencer Reid (Matthew Gray Gubler) at the mercy of a deeply troubled felon (guest star James Van Der Beek). As Reid tries to psych out his captor, literally, his colleagues (Mandy Patinkin, Thomas Gibson, Paget Brewster, Shemar Moore, A.J. Cook, Kirsten Vangsness) search for him.
"I'm really kind of naive about all these matters, but I'm slowly realising what a vote of confidence this is," Gubler says of the show's post-Super Bowl showcase. "Reid is the 'damsel in distress' in this particular two-parter. It seems he's frequently taken hostage or beaten up or put into situations that steer the team toward saving him, which I enjoy. I feel like the equivalent of a horror-movie heroine."
It actually goes deeper in the newest tale. Gubler says Van Der Beek's character "decides it might be more kind if he were to shoot (Reid) up with drugs. Not only is he being held captive by a psychopath, he's being forced to take an opiate of some sort. It's laced with a hallucinogen, causing Reid to have flashbacks that give insight into his past and what made him a profiler."
Lively presence
While Gubler brings some lightness to Criminal Minds with his quirky portrayal of Reid, recent cast addition Brewster ('Huff') also is a lively presence as new team member Emily Prentiss.
"I've always read about profiling and psychopaths," she says, "so this show is right up my alley. I had been watching it, and when I joined, they asked if I wanted to read FBI textbooks. I said, 'Give me everything you have.' The FBI books are a lot rougher than anything a civilian can purchase at the airport; there are lots of photographs of victims.
"I went through about three weeks of reading and having a really hard time sleeping at night," Brewster adds. "I got scared closing my eyes in the shower, so I took out the existing curtain and put in a clear one. I also installed a lot of locks, and I had some work done on my house that the real FBI guys have told me not to comment on. It was scary stuff, but I've sort of metabolised it now."
A former model who went to New York University's film school and "assumed I'd be making movies instead of being in them," Gubler "can neither confirm nor deny my involvement" in comical short subjects about the making of Criminal Minds on the popular website YouTube (search Matthew Gray Gubler: The Unauthorised Documentary). He may bite the hand that feeds him, but make no mistake: He's grateful for where he is.
"None of us ever anticipated the success we've had, especially in this climate of thousands of crime shows," he says. "From the very outset, everybody was saying, 'Don't worry. You're up against Lost. You'll be off the air in, like, a week.' Then every Thursday morning, we just kept posting those (ratings) numbers, and I don't think they ever stopped climbing. Everyone's incredibly proud."
- Jay Bobbin, Zap2it
And CBS has every reason to like Criminal Minds This season, the Wednesday series has scored a number of ratings victories over ABC's much-heralded Lost. As a reward, the crime drama gets the plum position following CBS's broadcast of the NFL championship game Sunday.
The episode launches a story that concludes in the show's usual slot February 7, with FBI profiler Spencer Reid (Matthew Gray Gubler) at the mercy of a deeply troubled felon (guest star James Van Der Beek). As Reid tries to psych out his captor, literally, his colleagues (Mandy Patinkin, Thomas Gibson, Paget Brewster, Shemar Moore, A.J. Cook, Kirsten Vangsness) search for him.
"I'm really kind of naive about all these matters, but I'm slowly realising what a vote of confidence this is," Gubler says of the show's post-Super Bowl showcase. "Reid is the 'damsel in distress' in this particular two-parter. It seems he's frequently taken hostage or beaten up or put into situations that steer the team toward saving him, which I enjoy. I feel like the equivalent of a horror-movie heroine."
It actually goes deeper in the newest tale. Gubler says Van Der Beek's character "decides it might be more kind if he were to shoot (Reid) up with drugs. Not only is he being held captive by a psychopath, he's being forced to take an opiate of some sort. It's laced with a hallucinogen, causing Reid to have flashbacks that give insight into his past and what made him a profiler."
Lively presence
While Gubler brings some lightness to Criminal Minds with his quirky portrayal of Reid, recent cast addition Brewster ('Huff') also is a lively presence as new team member Emily Prentiss.
"I've always read about profiling and psychopaths," she says, "so this show is right up my alley. I had been watching it, and when I joined, they asked if I wanted to read FBI textbooks. I said, 'Give me everything you have.' The FBI books are a lot rougher than anything a civilian can purchase at the airport; there are lots of photographs of victims.
"I went through about three weeks of reading and having a really hard time sleeping at night," Brewster adds. "I got scared closing my eyes in the shower, so I took out the existing curtain and put in a clear one. I also installed a lot of locks, and I had some work done on my house that the real FBI guys have told me not to comment on. It was scary stuff, but I've sort of metabolised it now."
A former model who went to New York University's film school and "assumed I'd be making movies instead of being in them," Gubler "can neither confirm nor deny my involvement" in comical short subjects about the making of Criminal Minds on the popular website YouTube (search Matthew Gray Gubler: The Unauthorised Documentary). He may bite the hand that feeds him, but make no mistake: He's grateful for where he is.
"None of us ever anticipated the success we've had, especially in this climate of thousands of crime shows," he says. "From the very outset, everybody was saying, 'Don't worry. You're up against Lost. You'll be off the air in, like, a week.' Then every Thursday morning, we just kept posting those (ratings) numbers, and I don't think they ever stopped climbing. Everyone's incredibly proud."
- Jay Bobbin, Zap2it
Las Vegas Reviews Journal
http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/2007/Jan-29-Mon-2007/living/12200440.html
Matthew sent this to me today! Great article!
Jan. 29, 2007
Copyright © Las Vegas Review-Journal
LIFE ON THE COUCH: Las Vegan Gubler enjoying his accidental acting career
Matthew Gray Gubler can be a tough guy to reach.
But when he finally phoned recently, after more than a week of missed calls, he had an excuse that was better than most: He'd spent the past six days in the woods, tied to a chair, being tortured and shot full of heroin by James van der Beek.
It has been a busy couple of weeks for Gubler, the 26-year-old graduate of the Las Vegas Academy of International Studies, Performing and Visual Arts, as he put the finishing touches on his biggest project: the two-part episode of the out-of-nowhere smash "Criminal Minds" that will begin immediately following the Super Bowl (Sunday on KLAS-TV, Channel 8).
In the special episode, which Gubler calls "incredibly crazy," his character, awkward genius Dr. Spencer Reid, and fellow FBI profilers -- played by, among others, Mandy Patinkin, Thomas Gibson and Shemar Moore -- are called in when a wealthy couple is murdered following, naturally, a Super Bowl party. (Part two, airing next week in the show's regular 9 p.m. Wednesday home, finds Dr. Reid kidnapped by the multiple-personalitied killer, played by the former "Dawson's Creek" star.)
"I didn't know it was such a big deal," Gubler says of the most coveted time slot on television, the post-Big Game hour that launched "The A-Team," "The Wonder Years" and "Family Guy" and helped make "Friends" and "Grey's Anatomy" the most talked about shows on TV. "I don't really know much about sports. But someone finally sat me down and explained it to me. ... I'm just happy the network is finally acknowledging our existence."
"Criminal Minds" was largely ignored, not just by CBS but by viewers as well, when it debuted in the fall of 2005. It was too dark for some, too much like all the other crime procedurals for others. And it was pitted against the water-cooler show of the moment: "Lost."
"Everyone was like 'Oh, don't even unpack your bags,' " Gubler says. " 'You're going to be canceled in a week and a half.' "
The series finished that first season in 30th place. But something -- probably the show's stand-alone nature that lends itself to repeats -- began to click with viewers. In November, just before "Lost" left for its fall break, "Criminal Minds" overtook it in the weekly ratings and it's now TV's 11th most popular series. (When "Lost" returns next week, it will move back an hour to 10 p.m., having conceded the time slot.)
But it's still The Series The Media Forgot.
"No one I know has even heard of the show," Gubler says. "People think I'm making it up when I tell them I'm on TV."
But get him to a Red State -- say, Texas or parts of the Midwest and South, where he went on a recent press tour -- and he's treated like a rock star. "These are, like, real Americans watching it," he says, as opposed to "the pretentious idiots in New York or Los Angeles."
Las Vegans also seem to get the show, something he has noticed during his frequent visits. The actor -- the son of attorney John Gubler and Marilyn Gubler, a ranch owner and former chairwoman of the Nevada Republican Party -- says he comes home at least once a month. "I work in L.A., but I live in Nevada."
Since he moved to New York to attend film school, Gubler's life has followed a Forrest Gump-like trajectory. He fell into a successful modeling career after being "discovered" on the street. Being cast in "The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou," as what he calls a joke, led to the beginnings of a promising acting career, something else he never sought. Now, he finds himself in a movie with Mr. Gump himself. (The upcoming film, "The Great Buck Howard," in which he plays an assistant to John Malkovich's magician character, co-stars Tom Hanks.)
"It was all a total accident," Gubler says of his acting career, and he feels a little guilty about his success-to-struggle ratio. "But I couldn't be happier."
He wasn't completely unprepared to be an actor -- he majored in the craft at the Las Vegas Academy, but only because the school didn't offer his true passion: filmmaking. And it's that initial calling that helps him block out some of the twisted crimes, many of which he says come from true stories, that "Criminal Minds" portrays.
To keep things loose on the set, he has been making short films, featuring co-stars and members of the crew, that cast him as a pampered diva who yells at children and sexually harasses co-workers.
"I'm incredibly proud of those," Gubler says, and he lights up when you mention you've seen them on YouTube.
"Sadly, I focus more attention, I think, on those fake documentaries than on the actual show. But having that is a real nice safety blanket, I think, to keep you from going crazy."
Also helping to keep him sane is his art, which he has exhibited in the Czech Republic and on his handwritten Web site, www.matthewgraygubler. com. He also has taken up photography and is an aspiring children's author and illustrator. And, he says, "I want to get better at badminton. That's my goal for this year."
He has even reached that level of fame where he's the subject of a growing Internet rumor: that he's the basis for the Killers' song "Mr. Brightside," in which frontman Brandon Flowers sings about watching another man seduce his girl. Gubler, who's working with a mutual friend on a small project for the band, says that claim "blew my mind," but it's not true.
"I don't think so, anyway. I haven't really asked Brandon about it," he says. "I think I'd rather not ask him about it."
"But," he adds in closing, "I am Roxanne from the Sting song."
Christopher Lawrence's Life on the Couch column appears on Mondays. E-mail him at clawrence@reviewjournal.com.
Matthew sent this to me today! Great article!
Jan. 29, 2007
Copyright © Las Vegas Review-Journal
LIFE ON THE COUCH: Las Vegan Gubler enjoying his accidental acting career
 Matthew Gray Gubler stars as Dr. Spencer Reid on "Criminal Minds." The series, about an elite team of FBI profilers, will air in the coveted time slot following the Super Bowl on KLAS-TV, Channel 8.  Matthew Gray Gubler, center, never intended to be an actor, preferring filmmaking. A series of short films, featuring his "Criminal Minds" co-stars and available on YouTube, has let him practice that craft. |
But when he finally phoned recently, after more than a week of missed calls, he had an excuse that was better than most: He'd spent the past six days in the woods, tied to a chair, being tortured and shot full of heroin by James van der Beek.
It has been a busy couple of weeks for Gubler, the 26-year-old graduate of the Las Vegas Academy of International Studies, Performing and Visual Arts, as he put the finishing touches on his biggest project: the two-part episode of the out-of-nowhere smash "Criminal Minds" that will begin immediately following the Super Bowl (Sunday on KLAS-TV, Channel 8).
In the special episode, which Gubler calls "incredibly crazy," his character, awkward genius Dr. Spencer Reid, and fellow FBI profilers -- played by, among others, Mandy Patinkin, Thomas Gibson and Shemar Moore -- are called in when a wealthy couple is murdered following, naturally, a Super Bowl party. (Part two, airing next week in the show's regular 9 p.m. Wednesday home, finds Dr. Reid kidnapped by the multiple-personalitied killer, played by the former "Dawson's Creek" star.)
"I didn't know it was such a big deal," Gubler says of the most coveted time slot on television, the post-Big Game hour that launched "The A-Team," "The Wonder Years" and "Family Guy" and helped make "Friends" and "Grey's Anatomy" the most talked about shows on TV. "I don't really know much about sports. But someone finally sat me down and explained it to me. ... I'm just happy the network is finally acknowledging our existence."
"Criminal Minds" was largely ignored, not just by CBS but by viewers as well, when it debuted in the fall of 2005. It was too dark for some, too much like all the other crime procedurals for others. And it was pitted against the water-cooler show of the moment: "Lost."
"Everyone was like 'Oh, don't even unpack your bags,' " Gubler says. " 'You're going to be canceled in a week and a half.' "
The series finished that first season in 30th place. But something -- probably the show's stand-alone nature that lends itself to repeats -- began to click with viewers. In November, just before "Lost" left for its fall break, "Criminal Minds" overtook it in the weekly ratings and it's now TV's 11th most popular series. (When "Lost" returns next week, it will move back an hour to 10 p.m., having conceded the time slot.)
But it's still The Series The Media Forgot.
"No one I know has even heard of the show," Gubler says. "People think I'm making it up when I tell them I'm on TV."
But get him to a Red State -- say, Texas or parts of the Midwest and South, where he went on a recent press tour -- and he's treated like a rock star. "These are, like, real Americans watching it," he says, as opposed to "the pretentious idiots in New York or Los Angeles."
Las Vegans also seem to get the show, something he has noticed during his frequent visits. The actor -- the son of attorney John Gubler and Marilyn Gubler, a ranch owner and former chairwoman of the Nevada Republican Party -- says he comes home at least once a month. "I work in L.A., but I live in Nevada."
Since he moved to New York to attend film school, Gubler's life has followed a Forrest Gump-like trajectory. He fell into a successful modeling career after being "discovered" on the street. Being cast in "The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou," as what he calls a joke, led to the beginnings of a promising acting career, something else he never sought. Now, he finds himself in a movie with Mr. Gump himself. (The upcoming film, "The Great Buck Howard," in which he plays an assistant to John Malkovich's magician character, co-stars Tom Hanks.)
"It was all a total accident," Gubler says of his acting career, and he feels a little guilty about his success-to-struggle ratio. "But I couldn't be happier."
He wasn't completely unprepared to be an actor -- he majored in the craft at the Las Vegas Academy, but only because the school didn't offer his true passion: filmmaking. And it's that initial calling that helps him block out some of the twisted crimes, many of which he says come from true stories, that "Criminal Minds" portrays.
To keep things loose on the set, he has been making short films, featuring co-stars and members of the crew, that cast him as a pampered diva who yells at children and sexually harasses co-workers.
"I'm incredibly proud of those," Gubler says, and he lights up when you mention you've seen them on YouTube.
"Sadly, I focus more attention, I think, on those fake documentaries than on the actual show. But having that is a real nice safety blanket, I think, to keep you from going crazy."
Also helping to keep him sane is his art, which he has exhibited in the Czech Republic and on his handwritten Web site, www.matthewgraygubler. com. He also has taken up photography and is an aspiring children's author and illustrator. And, he says, "I want to get better at badminton. That's my goal for this year."
He has even reached that level of fame where he's the subject of a growing Internet rumor: that he's the basis for the Killers' song "Mr. Brightside," in which frontman Brandon Flowers sings about watching another man seduce his girl. Gubler, who's working with a mutual friend on a small project for the band, says that claim "blew my mind," but it's not true.
"I don't think so, anyway. I haven't really asked Brandon about it," he says. "I think I'd rather not ask him about it."
"But," he adds in closing, "I am Roxanne from the Sting song."
Christopher Lawrence's Life on the Couch column appears on Mondays. E-mail him at clawrence@reviewjournal.com.
WWD Aricle by Anamaria Wilson
http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-14774983_ITM
I found this VERY old article online and wanted to share it with all of you. Even though it is years old it is always fun to see where your favorite celebrities head was "back in the day". He obviously had no idea what he was in for! Read below.
And as if jetting off to Rome for six months wasn't enough -- most of his time was spent on a boat with the likes of Bill Murray, Anjelica Huston, Cate Blanchett and Owen Wilson -- Anderson also bestowed Gubler with the privilege of making the behind-the-scenes documentary that will be featured in the movie's DVD version.
The only downfall? Anderson's master plan for geeking up the young and, well, pretty Gubler. "I thought the only reason I got [the part] is because I've got pretty cool hair," says Gubler. "If I've got anything, I've got cool hair. But the first day I get there I get the worse perm you've ever seen. It looked like Ronald McDonald on crack cocaine. I thought it was an evil joke."
Since he couldn't quite tame the ping-pong ball of hair, Gubler bought a slew of Italian newsboy caps, adding yet another dimension to his already studied style.
Anderson's affinity for Gubler likely lies in no small part to this type of fashion sensibility, which runs close to the director's own. The neo-preppy style serves Gubler well, though. An inveterate thrift store shopper, he sports a uniform of baggy pants, collared shirts, colorful sweaters and threadbare Vans, along with artfully mussed hair, which lends Gubler a schoolboy charm.
Despite his new acting cred, Gubler's true calling lies in making movies. His short film titled "The Cactus That Looked Just Like a Man," (which clearly displays his twisted sense of humor) has been generating interest and even helped him land an agent. "It's about a psychopathic farmer who meets a socially retarded city slicker," Gubler explains. "People seem to like it, which I'm surprised about. I thought no one was going to like it except me and my mom."
Now Gubler is planning his next move -- to L.A. He's doubtful, however, that anything can top what he's already achieved. "I got to be in my favorite living film director's movie," Gubler says with a laugh. "You know it's only going to go down from here. I can retire now."
STAR PICKS: MATTHEW GRAY GUBLER
FAVORITE DIRECTORS: Alfred Hitchcock, Tim Burton, Roman Polanski, the Coen brothers and, of course, Wes Anderson.
FAVORITE MOVIES: "Night of the Hunter," "Rushmore," "Buffalo 66," "Psycho" and "Home Alone."
FILMMAKING DREAM: "To make a horror film with Macaulay Culkin. After I saw "The Good Son," I thought Mac's no joke."
MUSIC: "I'm like a 16-year-old girl. I like Conor Oberst of Bright Eyes."
Caption(s): Matthew Gray Gubler
InfoTrac OneFile (R)
I found this VERY old article online and wanted to share it with all of you. Even though it is years old it is always fun to see where your favorite celebrities head was "back in the day". He obviously had no idea what he was in for! Read below.
A MODEL EXISTENCE.(Matthew Gray Gubler)(Interview)
Source: WWD
Publication Date: 12/09/2004
Author: Wilson, Anamaria
While there's no shortage of aspiring model/actor/filmmaker
types in the city, few have had the breaks Matthew Gray Gubler has.
Not only has he walked
the runways for Marc Jacobs, Burberry and Louis Vuitton, the affable 24-year-old
makes his feature film debut Friday in Wes Anderson's "The Life Aquatic With
Steve Zissou." After serving as the director's intern to fulfill a credit at New
York University Film School, Gubler auditioned and was ultimately cast as Nico,
the number one intern.And as if jetting off to Rome for six months wasn't enough -- most of his time was spent on a boat with the likes of Bill Murray, Anjelica Huston, Cate Blanchett and Owen Wilson -- Anderson also bestowed Gubler with the privilege of making the behind-the-scenes documentary that will be featured in the movie's DVD version.
The only downfall? Anderson's master plan for geeking up the young and, well, pretty Gubler. "I thought the only reason I got [the part] is because I've got pretty cool hair," says Gubler. "If I've got anything, I've got cool hair. But the first day I get there I get the worse perm you've ever seen. It looked like Ronald McDonald on crack cocaine. I thought it was an evil joke."
Since he couldn't quite tame the ping-pong ball of hair, Gubler bought a slew of Italian newsboy caps, adding yet another dimension to his already studied style.
Anderson's affinity for Gubler likely lies in no small part to this type of fashion sensibility, which runs close to the director's own. The neo-preppy style serves Gubler well, though. An inveterate thrift store shopper, he sports a uniform of baggy pants, collared shirts, colorful sweaters and threadbare Vans, along with artfully mussed hair, which lends Gubler a schoolboy charm.
Despite his new acting cred, Gubler's true calling lies in making movies. His short film titled "The Cactus That Looked Just Like a Man," (which clearly displays his twisted sense of humor) has been generating interest and even helped him land an agent. "It's about a psychopathic farmer who meets a socially retarded city slicker," Gubler explains. "People seem to like it, which I'm surprised about. I thought no one was going to like it except me and my mom."
Now Gubler is planning his next move -- to L.A. He's doubtful, however, that anything can top what he's already achieved. "I got to be in my favorite living film director's movie," Gubler says with a laugh. "You know it's only going to go down from here. I can retire now."
STAR PICKS: MATTHEW GRAY GUBLER
FAVORITE DIRECTORS: Alfred Hitchcock, Tim Burton, Roman Polanski, the Coen brothers and, of course, Wes Anderson.
FAVORITE MOVIES: "Night of the Hunter," "Rushmore," "Buffalo 66," "Psycho" and "Home Alone."
FILMMAKING DREAM: "To make a horror film with Macaulay Culkin. After I saw "The Good Son," I thought Mac's no joke."
MUSIC: "I'm like a 16-year-old girl. I like Conor Oberst of Bright Eyes."
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The Daily Mail Blurb
http://mailonline.newspaperdirect.com/epaper/viewer.aspx
Matthew received a "blurb" in the January 13th edition of The Daily Mail. See below!
Stephanie DuBois Netscape Article
01/10/07
http://channels.isp.netscape.com/celebrity/becksmith.jsp?p=bsf_gubler_rstar
Special thanks to Steffi Y for bringing this to my attention!
TV RISING STAR: "Criminal Minds'" Matthew Gray Gubler Gains Supernerd Status
By Stephanie DuBois
Proving 2006 was indeed the Year of the Supernerd,
"Criminal Minds'" Matthew Gray Gubler says fans of the show track him down
wherever he is despite the fact, "I don't really look much like the character in
real life.
"I'm always shocked," continues the actor, who plays the genius Dr. Spencer
Reid on the CBS drama that also stars Shemar Moore and Mandy Patinkin as
criminal profilers.
"I get stopped at least twice a day and they can quote me back my lines!"
Perhaps
it's just that Dr. Reid - who has an IQ of 187, reads 20,000 words per minute
and has an eidetic memory - and other figurative and literal Supernerds like
David Krumholtz's Charlie Eppes on "Numb3rs" and Masi Oka's Hiro on "Heroes,"
respectively, are proving that there is an audience out there turned on more by
brains than brawn.
"I'm so lucky people seem to really respond well to him," says Gubler, adding
"I never thought I'd be an actor, let alone getting noticed on the streets."
No false modesty in that statement. Just fact.
"It was a complete and total accident I even ended up on the show," says Gubler.
"I studied filmmaking at NYU and out of nowhere my senior year I interned for Wes Anderson (the director of such films as "The Royal Tenenbaums," "Rushmore" and "Bottle Rocket"). And as a joke he put me in 'The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou' playing an intern."
Though the handsome, 6'1" Gubler had worked as a model and walked the runway for such fashion designers as Marc Jacohs, Burberry, Tommy Hilfiger and Louis Vuitton, he says acting was still the last thing on his mind even after the 2004 "The Life Aquatic," which starred Bill Murray and Owen Wilson.
"I got a directing agent for my movies after that," says Gubler, who'd become an accomplished filmmaker of short films like "The Cactus that Looked Like a Man," "Tippi's Picnic" and "Claude: A Symphony of Horror" at that point.
"Then one day they found out I was in this big movie and asked 'Are you an actor too?' I'm like 'Yeah,' and they said 'Why don't you audition for this part?'"
Gubler doubts the casting forces and producers behind "Criminal Minds" "ever even saw 'The Life Aquatic,'" but they saw something in him for sure.
"They called my agent and said 'He's a great actor, but he's not right for the part.' Then a week would go by and they'd say 'We want to see him again.' I went in for about four or five times, then finally they're like 'Alright, he's perfect.'"
He says he was blown away when he went in for "the final casting process. It was down to two actors for every character. I see Shemar Moore with this other cool black guy, and I see two older white guys. Then I look over and see this actor I hold with incredible esteem and it hits me, 'Holy S---! He's a young, skinny white guy. He must be reading for my part! He was one of the three young actors alive that I would cast in a heartbeat in anything. That's why I was shocked when my agent called and said 'They cast you.'"
The only downside for Gubler has been that his own filmmaking aspirations have been put on a back burner for now.
"I was sort of upset for a little while," he admits. "The show is literally 16 hours every day, which leaves no time to even think about other stuff. But I will eventually make some pretty great movies."
Since being on the set wasn't conducive to writing, Gubler took up painting as a hobby. And recently he's become a world-renowned artist. Well, okay. Just in the Czech Republic.
I know you say, the Czech Republic?
"That's a funny story that started out completely as a joke," he says. "I was drawing these things because I had a lot of down time on the set and one of my film professors from NYU saw my stuff. He said 'I really want to send this to this gallery owner I know.' They ordered 12 paintings and he sent them off to a place called Ostavria. I thought 'I guess I'll never see these again.' Then three and a half weeks later he sent me a check for a pretty substantial amount and said 'Let me know when you have more.'"
Gubler says word of his art prowess has gotten out and "people have contacted me about doing an art showing in America, but I haven't focused on that. The show's picked up the pace in the second season...And I feel bad selling myself to be honest. I'm not really classically trained in acting or painting.
"I guess I'm just in the flow and riding the wave," he says. "Every two years you change hobbies and try to become successful at them."
At risk of slipping into Superjock territory, he adds with a laugh, "I think I'll take up polo - or badminton. I'm actually really bad at sports, but I think I'm really good at badminton. Although, I've only played girls...my young girl cousins in fact. I was like 'Take that! You like that! Let's see what you got!' For a couple of weeks after that I was walking around thinking 'I am so good at badminton!' Then it hit me. I'd probably get killed if I was playing anyone over the age of nine."
Now, that's spoken like a true Supernerd!
http://channels.isp.netscape.com/celebrity/becksmith.jsp?p=bsf_gubler_rstar
Special thanks to Steffi Y for bringing this to my attention!
TV RISING STAR: "Criminal Minds'" Matthew Gray Gubler Gains Supernerd Status
"I get stopped at least twice a day and they can quote me back my lines!"
No false modesty in that statement. Just fact.
"It was a complete and total accident I even ended up on the show," says Gubler.
"I studied filmmaking at NYU and out of nowhere my senior year I interned for Wes Anderson (the director of such films as "The Royal Tenenbaums," "Rushmore" and "Bottle Rocket"). And as a joke he put me in 'The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou' playing an intern."
Though the handsome, 6'1" Gubler had worked as a model and walked the runway for such fashion designers as Marc Jacohs, Burberry, Tommy Hilfiger and Louis Vuitton, he says acting was still the last thing on his mind even after the 2004 "The Life Aquatic," which starred Bill Murray and Owen Wilson.
"I got a directing agent for my movies after that," says Gubler, who'd become an accomplished filmmaker of short films like "The Cactus that Looked Like a Man," "Tippi's Picnic" and "Claude: A Symphony of Horror" at that point.
"Then one day they found out I was in this big movie and asked 'Are you an actor too?' I'm like 'Yeah,' and they said 'Why don't you audition for this part?'"
Gubler doubts the casting forces and producers behind "Criminal Minds" "ever even saw 'The Life Aquatic,'" but they saw something in him for sure.
"They called my agent and said 'He's a great actor, but he's not right for the part.' Then a week would go by and they'd say 'We want to see him again.' I went in for about four or five times, then finally they're like 'Alright, he's perfect.'"
He says he was blown away when he went in for "the final casting process. It was down to two actors for every character. I see Shemar Moore with this other cool black guy, and I see two older white guys. Then I look over and see this actor I hold with incredible esteem and it hits me, 'Holy S---! He's a young, skinny white guy. He must be reading for my part! He was one of the three young actors alive that I would cast in a heartbeat in anything. That's why I was shocked when my agent called and said 'They cast you.'"
The only downside for Gubler has been that his own filmmaking aspirations have been put on a back burner for now.
"I was sort of upset for a little while," he admits. "The show is literally 16 hours every day, which leaves no time to even think about other stuff. But I will eventually make some pretty great movies."
Since being on the set wasn't conducive to writing, Gubler took up painting as a hobby. And recently he's become a world-renowned artist. Well, okay. Just in the Czech Republic.
I know you say, the Czech Republic?
"That's a funny story that started out completely as a joke," he says. "I was drawing these things because I had a lot of down time on the set and one of my film professors from NYU saw my stuff. He said 'I really want to send this to this gallery owner I know.' They ordered 12 paintings and he sent them off to a place called Ostavria. I thought 'I guess I'll never see these again.' Then three and a half weeks later he sent me a check for a pretty substantial amount and said 'Let me know when you have more.'"
Gubler says word of his art prowess has gotten out and "people have contacted me about doing an art showing in America, but I haven't focused on that. The show's picked up the pace in the second season...And I feel bad selling myself to be honest. I'm not really classically trained in acting or painting.
"I guess I'm just in the flow and riding the wave," he says. "Every two years you change hobbies and try to become successful at them."
At risk of slipping into Superjock territory, he adds with a laugh, "I think I'll take up polo - or badminton. I'm actually really bad at sports, but I think I'm really good at badminton. Although, I've only played girls...my young girl cousins in fact. I was like 'Take that! You like that! Let's see what you got!' For a couple of weeks after that I was walking around thinking 'I am so good at badminton!' Then it hit me. I'd probably get killed if I was playing anyone over the age of nine."
Now, that's spoken like a true Supernerd!
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Keeping it Reel, Las Vegas Sun Article
http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/text/2005/jun/10/518885926.html
Here is a very old article talking about Matthews short film The Cactus That Looked Just Like a Man. I also included the sketch/movie poster that Matthew created.
June 10, 2005
LAS VEGAS SUN
Filmmaker first
Even with a bit role in an upcoming Robin Williams film and a co-starring role in the CBS FBI crime drama "Criminal Minds" alongside Mandy Patinkin, Matthew Gray Gubler doesn't consider himself an actor.
"Filmmaking is what I'm best at, even if I've had more success as an actor," said the 25-year-old Las Vegas native and part-time resident.
A 1998 graduate of the Las Vegas Academy, Gubler went to New York University to learn how to be a filmmaker.
Gubler did well enough that he was able to secure a senior internship with independent filmmaker Wes Anderson while he made "The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou." Gray even created a documentary on the film that's included as an extra on the DVD.
Despite his success outside of the classroom, Gubler's senior thesis film short, "The Cactus That Looked Just Like a Man," wasn't particularly well-received by his professors.
"My school at NYU wasn't overjoyed with the movie," he said. "It's a bit strange ... it's a macabre fairy tale set in the West."
Filmed at his mom's dude ranch in Sandy Valley, about an hour's drive west of Las Vegas near the Nevada-California state line, "The Cactus That Looked Just Just Like a Man" tells the story of a psychopathic pig farmer-turned-hermit who meets up with a Las Vegas kid who's in search of a friend.
The ending is "brutal," Gubler revealed, and helps strip away the Western film convention of everyone as either hero or villain.
"I don't like a movie where there's a good guy and bad guy," he said. "There's a gray area.
"Just because someone murders people doesn't mean he doesn't have any redemptive qualities." Given the short's subject matter, even Gubler didn't have high hopes for his film.
Then an agent saw "The Cactus That Looked Just Like a Man" and quickly signed Gubler to his firm. The short is premiering at CineVegas at 1:30 p.m. Thursday as part of the Nevada Filmmaking showcase.
"I got a lot of good news pretty much on a daily basis," he said. "It was really cool finding out I'm in Robin Williams' movie, and that my TV show was picked up.
"But the best news is that my short attracted an agent and that CineVegas is playing it."
Here is a very old article talking about Matthews short film The Cactus That Looked Just Like a Man. I also included the sketch/movie poster that Matthew created.
June 10, 2005
Keeping it Reel: As CineVegas grows, so do indy opportunities
By Kirk Baird <kirk@lasvegassun.com>LAS VEGAS SUN
Filmmaker first
Even with a bit role in an upcoming Robin Williams film and a co-starring role in the CBS FBI crime drama "Criminal Minds" alongside Mandy Patinkin, Matthew Gray Gubler doesn't consider himself an actor.
"Filmmaking is what I'm best at, even if I've had more success as an actor," said the 25-year-old Las Vegas native and part-time resident.
A 1998 graduate of the Las Vegas Academy, Gubler went to New York University to learn how to be a filmmaker.
Gubler did well enough that he was able to secure a senior internship with independent filmmaker Wes Anderson while he made "The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou." Gray even created a documentary on the film that's included as an extra on the DVD.
Despite his success outside of the classroom, Gubler's senior thesis film short, "The Cactus That Looked Just Like a Man," wasn't particularly well-received by his professors.
"My school at NYU wasn't overjoyed with the movie," he said. "It's a bit strange ... it's a macabre fairy tale set in the West."
Filmed at his mom's dude ranch in Sandy Valley, about an hour's drive west of Las Vegas near the Nevada-California state line, "The Cactus That Looked Just Just Like a Man" tells the story of a psychopathic pig farmer-turned-hermit who meets up with a Las Vegas kid who's in search of a friend.
The ending is "brutal," Gubler revealed, and helps strip away the Western film convention of everyone as either hero or villain.
"I don't like a movie where there's a good guy and bad guy," he said. "There's a gray area.
"Just because someone murders people doesn't mean he doesn't have any redemptive qualities." Given the short's subject matter, even Gubler didn't have high hopes for his film.
Then an agent saw "The Cactus That Looked Just Like a Man" and quickly signed Gubler to his firm. The short is premiering at CineVegas at 1:30 p.m. Thursday as part of the Nevada Filmmaking showcase.
"I got a lot of good news pretty much on a daily basis," he said. "It was really cool finding out I'm in Robin Williams' movie, and that my TV show was picked up.
"But the best news is that my short attracted an agent and that CineVegas is playing it."
Chicago Trib Maureen Ryan Article
12/27/06
http://featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com/entertainment_tv/2006/11/specs_appeal_he.html
Character: Special Agent Dr. Spencer
Reid (played by Matthew Gray Gubler)
Show: CBS drama “Criminal Minds,” which started stomping “Lost” in recent months.
What's his deal? A geeky expert on anything and everything related to serial killers. No doubt that makes him super-popular at cocktail parties.
His look: Dorky sweaters and other standard-issue geek wear. You get the impression that Reid is not haunting the designer boutiques to pick up the latest and hottest threads -- he’s more likely holed up with a tome on human cannibals.
Who this guy is: A typical book-smart genius with few social skills, Reid nonetheless has a bumbling charm and more than a little bravery hiding behind those lenses.
Fun fact: Though Reid only started sporting the glasses in recent episodes of “Criminal Minds,” it’s not an attempt to capitalize on H.R.G.’s popularity. A spokeswoman for CBS says Gubler started wearing the specs -- they’re the actor’s own glasses, by the way -- when California’s allergy season started gumming up his contact lenses.
Potential problem: Despite his sartorial uniqueness, Reid is stuck on a very grim show.
http://featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com/entertainment_tv/2006/11/specs_appeal_he.html
Character: Special Agent Dr. Spencer
Reid (played by Matthew Gray Gubler)Show: CBS drama “Criminal Minds,” which started stomping “Lost” in recent months.
What's his deal? A geeky expert on anything and everything related to serial killers. No doubt that makes him super-popular at cocktail parties.
His look: Dorky sweaters and other standard-issue geek wear. You get the impression that Reid is not haunting the designer boutiques to pick up the latest and hottest threads -- he’s more likely holed up with a tome on human cannibals.
Who this guy is: A typical book-smart genius with few social skills, Reid nonetheless has a bumbling charm and more than a little bravery hiding behind those lenses.
Fun fact: Though Reid only started sporting the glasses in recent episodes of “Criminal Minds,” it’s not an attempt to capitalize on H.R.G.’s popularity. A spokeswoman for CBS says Gubler started wearing the specs -- they’re the actor’s own glasses, by the way -- when California’s allergy season started gumming up his contact lenses.
Potential problem: Despite his sartorial uniqueness, Reid is stuck on a very grim show.
Karen Marie Shelton Article
http://www.hairboutique.com/tips/tip190002.htm
Matthew Gray Gubler
One of the many exceptional aspects of Criminal Minds is the way that the cast producers have done a fabulous job of styling and coiffing each of the main characters to symbolize their roles on the FBI team and in the show. Matthew Gray Gubler is a perfect example of dressing the part.
According to media reports, Matthew was specifically dressed and coiffed to give the appearance of a brilliant but definitely nerdy scientist and profiler. .
To create the right look, Gubler wore his hair long to give the impression of ultimate nerdiness. He also wore drab sweater vests and slacks and carried a satchel over his shoulder.
As the clueless but super brainy nerd, In the current environment where women adore nerds, Matthew is sizzling hot.
It's hard to believe that Matthew was originally a sought after model who strolled the Marc Jacobs, Burberry and Louis Vuitton fashion runways. His onscreen nerdiness didn't prevent him from recently being featured in Paper Magazine's 8th annual Beautiful People issue.
Matthew appeared in the quirky feature film "The Life Aquatic" with Steve Zissou and Bill Murray, as Murray's long lost illegitimate son. He also is a successful film maker with several short films under his belt and appeared in the film, R.V.
Matthew Gray Gubler
| CBS Criminal Minds - Hair Raising Tales! |
| Author: Karen Marie Shelton |
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Date:
06/06/2006
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One of the many exceptional aspects of Criminal Minds is the way that the cast producers have done a fabulous job of styling and coiffing each of the main characters to symbolize their roles on the FBI team and in the show. Matthew Gray Gubler is a perfect example of dressing the part.
According to media reports, Matthew was specifically dressed and coiffed to give the appearance of a brilliant but definitely nerdy scientist and profiler. .
To create the right look, Gubler wore his hair long to give the impression of ultimate nerdiness. He also wore drab sweater vests and slacks and carried a satchel over his shoulder.
As the clueless but super brainy nerd, In the current environment where women adore nerds, Matthew is sizzling hot.
It's hard to believe that Matthew was originally a sought after model who strolled the Marc Jacobs, Burberry and Louis Vuitton fashion runways. His onscreen nerdiness didn't prevent him from recently being featured in Paper Magazine's 8th annual Beautiful People issue.
Matthew appeared in the quirky feature film "The Life Aquatic" with Steve Zissou and Bill Murray, as Murray's long lost illegitimate son. He also is a successful film maker with several short films under his belt and appeared in the film, R.V.
TV Guide Magazine Article
12/08/06
A BIG thanks to Andy Swan for letting me know
about this article!
Criminal Minds Gets Funny on the Web
by N.F. MendozaCriminal Minds fans are getting a peek at the drama's lighter side courtesy of Matthew Gray Gubler, who plays hot nerd Dr. Spencer Reid on the hit CBS series. "Matthew Gray Gubler: The Unauthorized Documentary," a mockumentary on YouTube, follows a hilariously unflattering diva-version of the actor around the show's set. "Actors in general are strange," Gubler says. "I find their behavior comical." And so do viewers. The first episodes, posted in November, got more than 6,000 hits in less than a month.
Gubler won't fess up that he's behind the videos. But the 26-year-old studied filmmaking at NYU and worked with director Wes Anderson, who cast Gubler in The Life Aquatic and hired him to direct a behind-the-scenes documentary.
With a lot of footage left over, new episodes are scheduled to be posted every 10 days or so. Look for appearances from Minds' Mandy Patinkin, Shemar Moore and new cast member Paget Brewster.
Pittsburgh Post Gazette Rob Owen Interview
Sunday,
November 26, 2006
By Rob
Owen, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
 Matthew Gray Gubler |
Actor Matthew Gray Gubler, who plays socially awkward but brilliant special agent Dr. Spencer Reid on CBS's "Criminal Minds" (9 p.m. Wednesday), visited Pittsburgh earlier this month to promote the series. In a conference room at KDKA-TV, Gubler, who's also a filmmaker, added artistic designs to the show's first-season boxed set that will go to winners of a call-in contest on "Pittsburgh Today Live." The DVD ($58.99, Paramount Home Video) is in stores Tuesday.
A self-deprecating guy, Gubler, 26, told "Pittsburgh Today Live" host Kristine Sorensen his pre-acting modeling gigs were confined to a period when models who looked like "emaciated weirdos who look like Muppets" were in vogue.
Q: Which Muppet do you most identify with?
A: I look a little like Beaker. I think I'm a cross between Beaker and The Count. My hair looks like Oscar the Grouch. It's Muppety hair.
Q: Does it bother you that your competition on ABC, "Lost," gets more media love than "Criminal Minds"? A: It's weird, it doesn't [bother me]. It should and I think it bothers some of my compatriots. I'm honored with the fact that we do incredible numbers and we're beating "Lost," but, how to express this? I'm happy the people watching our show are the real people. I feel like "Lost" is a New York-L.A. show, and firemen and nurses and real Americans stop me on the street. That means more to me than some dumb celebrity magazine.
Q: "Criminal Minds" started to beat "Lost" in the ratings in recent weeks. Any guesses as to why? A: I know why, I don't have to guess. The nature of storytelling, since the dawn of man, has a beginning, a middle and an end. No one wants to hear a story, "I saw a tiger coming at me and then it lunged." [Gubler goes silent for a few seconds.] That's not interesting to me. Our show has a definite three-act structure.
Q: Why did Dr. Reid start wearing glasses recently? A: I was allergic to contact lens solution and wasn't able to wear my contacts. Those are my real glasses. Half the people think they're great and the other half think they're the ugliest they've ever seen and say, "You look like a nerd." I think they fit the character. Someone described it as a 1960s accountant look. It's the new black, I read in Vogue.
Q: Why did Lola Glaudini leave the show? A: I think she was unhappy in L.A. Being on a TV show is incredibly daunting. It's not like a movie where you're [in one place] for six months. This is nine months. I think she wanted to be in New York and do more theater.
Q: On the new "Criminal Minds" DVD, you say you prefer to wear mismatched socks because when you wore matching socks, you sprained your ankle. What are you wearing today? A: Carnival-style animals on one sock and stripes on the other.
Q: Does your "Criminal Minds" character wear matching socks? A: He does not. Some directors have tried to get it in there, but it's been unsuccessful so far. ... There's no continuity to the socks, which may be why the socks haven't made it into the show.
Q: On the DVD special features you mention the dark circles under your eyes and your aversion to having makeup applied to hide this Dark Eye Syndrome. Have you started a nonprofit to raise money for research to end this disorder? A: It's really a travesty and affects a lot of us, especially in the entertainment business: Bob Dylan, Gwen Stefani. Jeff Goldblum has a pretty bad case. Martin Scorsese has the worst case of Dark Eye Syndrome. Hopefully we can beat this together. We're making progress collecting for the kids.
Q: On the DVD you say it's not the result of late-night partying. A: I am embarrassingly 1920s in style. I like to be in bed at 11, and I like to get 11 hours of sleep. I've been to three parties in my life and two of them with [co-star] Shemar [Moore]. He's slowly trying to wean me into [that scene.]
Q: On your Web site, www.matthewgraygubler.com, you hand write news about your life and career. Did you never learn to type? A: I just like to make it more intimate and real. I don't like technique. I would rather see a scarecrow that a farmer spent a week making for himself than go to MoMA [Museum of Modern Art] and see some masterfully-drawn art. ...
And with the Internet it's getting eerie in the lack of humanity and being able to fake someone's MySpace [page]. I wanted something nobody would fake.
Q: You not only star in a CBS crime drama, you're also in a handful of videos on YouTube.com playing a pirate ("Temptation Island 2"), a dancing fool ("Boyztown") and a vain version of yourself ("Matthew Gray Gubler: An Unauthorized Documentary"). A: There's more to come on that last one. We have all this time on the set, and I'm a big fan of improv-based shows like "Curb Your Enthusiasm." So I said, let's make a documentary about me acting like the people I see or hear about who I hate. Certain actors get under my skin, so we started filming these episodes. One of the guys on the show, Andy Swan, the prop master, he's amazing at capturing things with telephoto.
We've got tremendous stuff in store for that. I want to do an episode were I pitch [the "Criminal Minds" executive producer a story for] an episode of the show and he wants to fire me. Everyone is somehow willing to be in [these shorts]. I'm more excited about that than the shows. On "Criminal Minds" we're dealing with 17 million people watching every week, and we're checking YouTube every two hours to see how many people have watched this dumb documentary.
Danielle Dascalos CBS4 Article
http://cbs4denver.com/entertainment/local_story_323183310.html
Matthew Gray Gubler Of Criminal Minds Visits CBS4
By Danielle Dascalos, CBS4 public relations
(CBS4) DENVER Matthew Gray Gubler, who
portrays Dr. Spencer Reid from the hit CBS show Criminal Minds, recently paid a
visit to CBS4.
Criminal Minds revolves around an elite team of FBI profilers who analyze the country's most twisted criminal minds, anticipating their next moves before they strike again. Special Agent Reid is a classically misunderstood genius whose social IQ is as low as his intellectual IQ is high. He brings his own area of expertise to the table pinpointing predators' motivations and identifying their emotional triggers in the attempt to stop them.
In reality Gubler, who was born and raised in Las Vegas, is very funny and charismatic. He has appeared in the feature films "R.V." and "The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou" and is also an accomplished filmmaker.
He started his day in Denver visiting several local radio stations, including CBS Radio's KOOL 105 FM, ALICE and KOSI 101.1 FM. Following his live radio appearances, Gubler met with CBS4 clients and community partners at Aviano Coffee Shop and then went on to shoot station promos and appear as a guest on CBS4 News at Noon.
Following lunch, Gubler visited a criminology class at Metro State College, where he signed autographs and was interviewed by the college newspaper.
To wrap up his day, he paid a visit to the Denver Police Academy where he met with cadets, along with a real FBI profiler to talk about what it is like to portray someone who analyzes criminal minds. CBS4 critic-at-large Greg Moody also interviewed Gubler for a story that aired on CBS4 News at 6:30 p.m.
CBS's surging sophomore drama Criminal Minds is now a Top 10 show having just beaten out the highly promoted ABC fall finale of "Lost" in the ratings.
Criminal Minds revolves around an elite team of FBI profilers who analyze the country's most twisted criminal minds, anticipating their next moves before they strike again. Special Agent Reid is a classically misunderstood genius whose social IQ is as low as his intellectual IQ is high. He brings his own area of expertise to the table pinpointing predators' motivations and identifying their emotional triggers in the attempt to stop them.
In reality Gubler, who was born and raised in Las Vegas, is very funny and charismatic. He has appeared in the feature films "R.V." and "The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou" and is also an accomplished filmmaker.
He started his day in Denver visiting several local radio stations, including CBS Radio's KOOL 105 FM, ALICE and KOSI 101.1 FM. Following his live radio appearances, Gubler met with CBS4 clients and community partners at Aviano Coffee Shop and then went on to shoot station promos and appear as a guest on CBS4 News at Noon.
Following lunch, Gubler visited a criminology class at Metro State College, where he signed autographs and was interviewed by the college newspaper.
To wrap up his day, he paid a visit to the Denver Police Academy where he met with cadets, along with a real FBI profiler to talk about what it is like to portray someone who analyzes criminal minds. CBS4 critic-at-large Greg Moody also interviewed Gubler for a story that aired on CBS4 News at 6:30 p.m.
CBS's surging sophomore drama Criminal Minds is now a Top 10 show having just beaten out the highly promoted ABC fall finale of "Lost" in the ratings.
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Since completion of The Life Aquatic, Gubler's been living in a Los Angeles building that's rumored to be haunted and looks like the hotel in the Coen brothers' Kafka paean Barton Fink. (His interest in the occult extends to sleight of hand: Gubler studied magic as a kid, performing at Bar Mitzvahs, but gave it up when he hit puberty and "went through this really awkward phase." He continues, "I looked like a girl. I had to stop for the sake of my own development. Girls in the late '80s weren't into magic.") The 24-year-old has also returned to filmmaking, though his latest is less depraved -- Gubler's documentary about the making of The Life Aquatic was bought by Criterion and will be issued as an extra with the DVD release of the movie.
JONATHAN DURBIN
UH-OH, IT'S
MAGIC
by Jonathan
Durbin
Matthew Gray Gubler is a promising young filmmaker with
macabre taste. His horror-western short The Cactus That Looked Just Like a Man
concerns a man named Rancher Croon who eats saltwater taffy and murders female
hitchhikers. For those unfamiliar with the world of NYU Film (from which Gubler
graduated in 2002, and for which he directed The Cactus), the director's lanky
frame and manic screen presence will be recognizable from his appearance in Wes
Anderson's The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, in which he plays the loyal but
beleaguered Intern #1. His performance is convincing in part because during his
senior year at school, Gubler won a real-life internship with Anderson. "Wes
hired me against his better judgment," the Las Vegas native jokes. "It was after
The Royal Tenenbaums, so there wasn't much to do except watch him write."
Since completion of The Life Aquatic, Gubler's been living in a Los Angeles building that's rumored to be haunted and looks like the hotel in the Coen brothers' Kafka paean Barton Fink. (His interest in the occult extends to sleight of hand: Gubler studied magic as a kid, performing at Bar Mitzvahs, but gave it up when he hit puberty and "went through this really awkward phase." He continues, "I looked like a girl. I had to stop for the sake of my own development. Girls in the late '80s weren't into magic.") The 24-year-old has also returned to filmmaking, though his latest is less depraved -- Gubler's documentary about the making of The Life Aquatic was bought by Criterion and will be issued as an extra with the DVD release of the movie.
JONATHAN DURBIN
This story was published on April 1,
2005.
Review Journal Interview by Cynthia Robins
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Sunday,
March 02, 2003Copyright © Las Vegas Review-Journal
NEW LOOK: Model
Student
Gubler's
serendipitous success in the fashion world bankrolls his dream of making
movies
By CYNTHIA ROBINS
SPECIAL TO THE REVIEW-JOURNAL New York is flooded every year with wannabes. Those handsome freaks of nature endowed with gorgeous faces and killer bodies who want to see their glossy images on the cover of Vogue or GQ. For most of them, it's not going to happen. And sometimes, it happens to those who least suspect it.
SPECIAL TO THE REVIEW-JOURNAL New York is flooded every year with wannabes. Those handsome freaks of nature endowed with gorgeous faces and killer bodies who want to see their glossy images on the cover of Vogue or GQ. For most of them, it's not going to happen. And sometimes, it happens to those who least suspect it.
Case in point: Matthew
Gubler, class of '98, Las Vegas Academy of International Studies, Performing and
Visual Arts.
In 2000, after spending
two years at the University of California, Santa Cruz, Gubler decided if he ever
wanted a career in film, he would have to go to New York University film school.
Which is how he happened to be standing on a corner in Manhattan in the spring
of 2002 when a model scout photographed him and brought him to a casting agent
who promptly put Gubler in a Kate Spade layout.
In New York, work
begets work. But it's not exactly who you are, it's who you know. Gubler was
"discovered" by Barbara Pfister, who saw in him a compilation of everything
fashion designers and photographers look for: great looks and intelligence
behind the eyes.
She cast him in a
"Royal Tenenbaums"-type family layout for Kate Spade that ran in the slick
fashion magazines and Vanity Fair in the fall of 2002.
At the time of the
shoot, Gubler was interning for director Wes Anderson, whose movie "The Royal
Tenenbaums" was being lauded by the critical establishment.
"I knew they were doing
this sort of `Tenenbaums'-inspired ad," Gubler says, "so I wore a corduroy
blazer; it was a good day to wear corduroy."
Everyone else was in
Gucci or Prada, "too cool for school and very chic," Gubler says. "I looked like
a creepy professor." It didn't hurt him. He was cast and so was his jacket.
From there he was
tapped for a Barneys 9-11 benefit catalog; an edgy editorial in Arena, a hip
British magazine; and a Mavi Jeans shoot in Puerto Rico where he was handed a
Polaroid camera and told to take pictures, many of which ended up in the final
ad layout. Ever since, Gubler has had a single-lens reflex Canon camera hanging
from his shoulder as he explores the possibility of becoming a still
photographer.
Meanwhile, his modeling
career is progressing. During fashion week in Paris and New York, he "walked,"
i.e. strolled, the runway for Louis Vuitton, Marc Jacobs and DKNY. He would have
modeled for Tommy Hilfiger, but he says with a laugh: "I was mugged on the way
to the tryout. I gave the guy $80 and missed the go-see."
After a period of Marky
Mark-Calvin Klein-type male models who resemble Chippendale dancers on steroids,
the 6-foot-1-inch Gubler represents a whole new look. He calls it "European." To
be more specific, it is a random scruffiness punctuated by sharp cheekbones,
soulful brown eyes, a Kirk Douglas cleft chin, an unruly mop of Beatles hair and
a long, lanky, coat-hanger physique able to contort into any given pattern.
"I look like an
androgynous Muppet. I guess that's in now," Gubler says with a shrug of his size
38L shoulders.
Modeling for Gubler is
a goof and unlike so many of the tyro models around him, he is not desperate.
It all started as a
giggle -- and a nuisance. The Kate Spade shoot coincided with the NYU film
school assembly in which awards for the best student films were handed out. He
had submitted five films, all of which were homages to the quirky horror of his
filmmaking idols, Alfred Hitchcock and Brian DePalma. While all five of his
films were shown during the competition, he didn't win the prestigious Wasserman
Award, but the Kate Spade layout paid $4,000, seed money for his next film, "The
Cactus That Looked Just Like a Man," videotaped on his mother's dude ranch in
Sandy Valley.
Try as he might staying
on track as a filmmaker, it's that Raggedy Andy-Glamour Muppet look of his that
keeps him on the runway and in front of the camera instead of behind it.
He has "a very special
quality. He has a very elegant, classical feeling about him. Elegance with an
edge. He has a strong face, but it's kind of quirky, plus he has an openness and
willingness to engage. That is really rare," says Pfister, a casting director
who works with such fashion houses as Louis Vuitton and Marc Jacobs.
Photographer Sasha
Eisenman has worked with Gubler on several commercial and artistic projects.
"He's a really good-looking guy with a good bone structure, but when I work, I
look for the whole person. I'd rather choose an intelligent artist person and
that's what Matthew is. He's an actor. He could almost be dandyesque, but to me,
he's a young American artist archetype. The handsome, creative rebel. He says
he's a nerd, but nerds are the coolest people in the end, anyway."
Fashion stylist Rushka
Bergman, who also is the fashion editor of several new wave publications such as
ID and SOMA, worked with Gubler in Puerto Rico on a Mavi Jeans ad. Her immediate
take was: "A star is born."
"It's not about his
looks," she says. "It's about his intelligence. You can see it in the face. You
can't fake it. It's not about beauty. There are probably one thousand more
beautiful boys out there. But he's got a good attitude and personality; and he's
very educated. With all these things put together, he'll go forward. I just
wanted to meet the parents."
Gubler was born March
9, 1980, the son of John Gubler, an attorney, and Marilyn Kelch Gubler. His
parents knew they had a special child on their hands. "From the time he was 8
years old, he's been very focused on film," says Marilyn Gubler, a rancher,
political consultant and former chairwoman of the Nevada Republican Party. "He's
the kind of kid who is very clear about where he is going. He has an immense
curiosity and love of life."
Matthew Gubler was in
the first four-year class at Las Vegas Academy, majoring in drama. Recently, for
the school's 10th anniversary, Gubler came back to Las Vegas to speak to the
student assembly -- his most memorable words: "Be cool, stay in school" -- and
to hang out with a bunch of theater-major juniors who were on break from tech
rehearsals for "Les Miserables."
In the academy's
intimate, "black box" multipurpose theater, Gubler spoke with students.
At the mention of his
modeling, one jeans-clad girl wanted to see him "walk like a model." Gubler
seemed embarrassed but threw his brown sweater over his shoulder in a mock
devil-may-care pose and walked. Moonwalked, that is. The androgynous Muppet was
back.
"He may call himself
that," says school co-founder and Principal Bob Geyre. "But I don't care. It's
good cover. Deep inside, he really is driven."
Gubler's parents always
told him, "If it isn't fun, don't do it." Right now, he is having fun and
getting into the perks of constant travel (next stop: Japan); new friends; and
sometimes, payoffs in clothes. For the Marc Jacobs show, he scored, he says,
"about $10,000 worth" of men's couture clothing including a belted, powder blue
cashmere topcoat and a jacket with a $5,000 price tag. "I couldn't believe it,"
he says, rolling his eyes.
He also is meeting the
kinds of people who can give him more work. As a model, Gubler may have come
down with the rain, but his good humor and seemingly "I could give a damn"
demeanor has not changed. "I'm becoming very European," he jokes. "I'm learning
to air-kiss."
On the serious side,
Gubler looks at his modeling fees as a way to make his movies. "I'm just riding
the wave," he says. "I feel badly for people who want this to be their career.
It's a little bit frustrating for me, though. With filmmaking or acting, you can
improve or change or get better. But with modeling, it's just luck. Bam, you're
a model. Sure, you can change your body, but you're at the mercy of fashion. And
you can't take it all that seriously when you realize that androgynous Muppets
will only be popular for a short
time."
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Hairy
Situation: "Wes gave me a perm for the movie. I looked like the illegitimate
child of Art Garfunkel and Screech from Saved by the
Bell
His Weekend Activity:Eating a pint of Ben and Jerry's Oatmeal Cookie Chunk and turning into Noggin
Quirk We Love: "I never wear matching socks. My grandma told me it's good luck, and so far it's worked."
Top Three Phobias: "The Abominable Snowman, buffalo, and prett much anything in the water."
Matthew, AKA: "The Gube. I'm a fan of my last name."
His Weekend Activity:Eating a pint of Ben and Jerry's Oatmeal Cookie Chunk and turning into Noggin
Quirk We Love: "I never wear matching socks. My grandma told me it's good luck, and so far it's worked."
Top Three Phobias: "The Abominable Snowman, buffalo, and prett much anything in the water."
Matthew, AKA: "The Gube. I'm a fan of my last name."
Full
Name:Matthew Gray Gubler AKA Matthew Gubler
Nicknames: The Gube
Home town:Las
Vegas ,
Nevada
Where are you living?Manhattan
When did you first model for Tommy? With Terry Richardson in April
Any celebrity crushes? Mia Farrow in Rosemary's Baby
Favorite Tommy must-have? The jeans are awesome. They kind of blow my mind.
Favorite band? Bright Eyes, Cat Stevens, The Cure
What movies do you love? Rushmore, Buffalo 66, Harold & Maude, Halloween, The Tenant, Psycho, Ghostbusters, Goonies, Vertigo, Home Alone
What will you be when you grow up? Filmaker. I also want my own amusement park or carnival.
Will you ever grow up? Never
Who's your best friend? My little brother
Where are you two hanging? In the backyard. We play a lot of badminton and sometimes croquet. We also like to go the mall and talk about pretty girls.
Plans for this Fall? Carving pumpkins. I have pipe dreams of opening a seasonal haunted house inLas
Vegas
What are you into? Action or Comedy? Comedy. I seriously get panic attacks watching action movies.
Walk or Taxi? Walk
Ozzy orSharon Sharon
Yoga or Boxing? Boxing. My ex-girlfriend left me for a 60 yr. old yoga instructor.
Cargo Pants or Jeans? Jeans. Cargo pants freak me out. Too many pockets. I always forget where my wallet is.
Madonna now or Madonna then? Madonna then. She's cool now, but she was 40 times cooler then.
Trains or Planes? Trains
CD's or MP3's? MP3s
NY or LA? NY, People say LA is not that bad, but I have only had awful experiences there.New
York
London Paris Paris France
Salty or Sweet? Salty. I seriously eat like 5 pounds of cashews a day.
E-mails or Letters? E-mails. I'm still freaked out by anthrax. Plus my handwriting sucks.
Flipflops or Sneakers? Sneakers
Justin or Pharrell? I have no idea who these people are… wow, I feel like an old man.
Surf or Turf? Turf. I am terrified of sharks and aquatic life in general.
Sexy or Silly? Silly. At my sexiest, I look like an androgenous muppet.
Cable or Rentals? Rentals. I love the video store! It's like my church - how's that for pretentious?
Coffee or Tea? Coffee. I'm obsessed with coffee. My doctor says if I don't cut back, I am going to permanently damage my esophagus. No joke.
Diet or Regular? Diet. I'm also addicted to Diet Dr. Pepper.
Colin Farrell or Will Farrell? Will Farrell. I'm not sure who Colin Farrell is, but I would bet dollars to donuts that the Farrelly Brothers are cooler than both of them.
Single or Taken? Single. Thanks to a 60 yearold yoga instructor that looks like Santa Claus. I am sort of in love with this girl I met on the Tommy Jeans shoot, however.
Nicknames: The Gube
Home town:
Where are you living?
When did you first model for Tommy? With Terry Richardson in April
Any celebrity crushes? Mia Farrow in Rosemary's Baby
Favorite Tommy must-have? The jeans are awesome. They kind of blow my mind.
Favorite band? Bright Eyes, Cat Stevens, The Cure
What movies do you love? Rushmore, Buffalo 66, Harold & Maude, Halloween, The Tenant, Psycho, Ghostbusters, Goonies, Vertigo, Home Alone
What will you be when you grow up? Filmaker. I also want my own amusement park or carnival.
Will you ever grow up? Never
Who's your best friend? My little brother
Where are you two hanging? In the backyard. We play a lot of badminton and sometimes croquet. We also like to go the mall and talk about pretty girls.
Plans for this Fall? Carving pumpkins. I have pipe dreams of opening a seasonal haunted house in
What are you into? Action or Comedy? Comedy. I seriously get panic attacks watching action movies.
Walk or Taxi? Walk
Ozzy or
Yoga or Boxing? Boxing. My ex-girlfriend left me for a 60 yr. old yoga instructor.
Cargo Pants or Jeans? Jeans. Cargo pants freak me out. Too many pockets. I always forget where my wallet is.
Madonna now or Madonna then? Madonna then. She's cool now, but she was 40 times cooler then.
Trains or Planes? Trains
CD's or MP3's? MP3s
NY or LA? NY, People say LA is not that bad, but I have only had awful experiences there.
Salty or Sweet? Salty. I seriously eat like 5 pounds of cashews a day.
E-mails or Letters? E-mails. I'm still freaked out by anthrax. Plus my handwriting sucks.
Flipflops or Sneakers? Sneakers
Justin or Pharrell? I have no idea who these people are… wow, I feel like an old man.
Surf or Turf? Turf. I am terrified of sharks and aquatic life in general.
Sexy or Silly? Silly. At my sexiest, I look like an androgenous muppet.
Cable or Rentals? Rentals. I love the video store! It's like my church - how's that for pretentious?
Coffee or Tea? Coffee. I'm obsessed with coffee. My doctor says if I don't cut back, I am going to permanently damage my esophagus. No joke.
Diet or Regular? Diet. I'm also addicted to Diet Dr. Pepper.
Colin Farrell or Will Farrell? Will Farrell. I'm not sure who Colin Farrell is, but I would bet dollars to donuts that the Farrelly Brothers are cooler than both of them.
Single or Taken? Single. Thanks to a 60 yearold yoga instructor that looks like Santa Claus. I am sort of in love with this girl I met on the Tommy Jeans shoot, however.
Movie:
Ghostbusters, Psycho,Buffalo
TV Show:
Family Ties. Growing up, Alex P. Keaton was my idol. I still sing the theme song in the shower.
Musician:
Bright Eyes, The Violent Femmes, and Modest Mouse.
Book:
In God We Trust: All Others Pay Cash by Jean Shepherd. This is the book that the movie A Christmas Story was based on. You know, the one with the little boy and the BB gun. I'm also a sucker for John Steinbeck.
Celebrity crush:
Sofia Coppola. Her directorial debut, The Virgin Suicides, blew my socks off. Then I saw a picture of her, and I almost passed out—she's pretty easy on the eyes.
Place:Las
Vegas ,
Nevada
Restaurant:
Ben and Jerry's. Everyone there is so nice and friendly, it always feels like Christmas. Have you ever seen anyone look mean or intimidating while holding an ice cream cone? It's impossible.
Store:
Obscura, inNew
York City East
Village
Jeans:
Women's Levi's. I was wearing women's jeans way before it was cool for guys to wear them. I have a weird torso—it's incredibly short, and only girl-pants fit me properly.
Hobby:
Magic tricks. I've taken magic lessons since I was five-years-old. When I was little I would wear a top hat and cape, and I'd get relentlessly beat up by jocks. That's why I don't care for sports.
Game:
Badminton. I'm usually pretty lame when it comes to physical activity, but I'm like a Jedi on the badminton court. It's as if my body was built specifically for it—tall and lanky, with wrists like mousetraps.
Animal:
My dog, Mallory. She looks like a tiny kangaroo. I'm thinking about proposing marriage because I'm in love with her.
Holiday :
Halloween. I live for it. This year, I went toSalem ,
Massachusetts
Project:
The Cactus That Looked Just Like a Man, a short film I wrote, directed, shot, and edited. It took me a long time, and I think it might be a masterpiece. Also, a behind-the-scenes documentary I just finished editing for the The Life Aquatic DVD. It's a funny, 15-minute–long diary of what it was like to be in the movie, and I'm very proud of it.
Alternate career:
A tour guide on the Jungle Cruise ride atDisneyland . I
have some ideas for how to make their speech a little
livelier.
Ghostbusters, Psycho,
TV Show:
Family Ties. Growing up, Alex P. Keaton was my idol. I still sing the theme song in the shower.
Musician:
Bright Eyes, The Violent Femmes, and Modest Mouse.
Book:
In God We Trust: All Others Pay Cash by Jean Shepherd. This is the book that the movie A Christmas Story was based on. You know, the one with the little boy and the BB gun. I'm also a sucker for John Steinbeck.
Celebrity crush:
Sofia Coppola. Her directorial debut, The Virgin Suicides, blew my socks off. Then I saw a picture of her, and I almost passed out—she's pretty easy on the eyes.
Place:
Restaurant:
Ben and Jerry's. Everyone there is so nice and friendly, it always feels like Christmas. Have you ever seen anyone look mean or intimidating while holding an ice cream cone? It's impossible.
Store:
Obscura, in
Jeans:
Women's Levi's. I was wearing women's jeans way before it was cool for guys to wear them. I have a weird torso—it's incredibly short, and only girl-pants fit me properly.
Hobby:
Magic tricks. I've taken magic lessons since I was five-years-old. When I was little I would wear a top hat and cape, and I'd get relentlessly beat up by jocks. That's why I don't care for sports.
Game:
Badminton. I'm usually pretty lame when it comes to physical activity, but I'm like a Jedi on the badminton court. It's as if my body was built specifically for it—tall and lanky, with wrists like mousetraps.
Animal:
My dog, Mallory. She looks like a tiny kangaroo. I'm thinking about proposing marriage because I'm in love with her.
Halloween. I live for it. This year, I went to
Project:
The Cactus That Looked Just Like a Man, a short film I wrote, directed, shot, and edited. It took me a long time, and I think it might be a masterpiece. Also, a behind-the-scenes documentary I just finished editing for the The Life Aquatic DVD. It's a funny, 15-minute–long diary of what it was like to be in the movie, and I'm very proud of it.
Alternate career:
A tour guide on the Jungle Cruise ride at
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An Interview with Matthew Gray Gubler (Dr. Spencer Reid, Criminal Minds) by Rachel Thomas with About.com
Many actors really do lead interesting lives outside of
work, and then there are truly unique actors like Matthew Gray Gubler who take creativity to the next level. Like his
character on the hit CBS series Criminal Minds, Matthew is a brilliantly creative man who uses his
intelligence and extraordinary humor to make the world a better place. I had the
fortunate opportunity to chat with Matthew about
his life, where his character is headed and his plans for the future.
Q:
Matthew: "It was really when the show started that I got into it. I did filmmaking and through a roundabout manner, I got into this. I was 25 when the show started."
Q: What do you think you'd be doing today if you weren't acting?
Matthew: "My family and friends sort of chastised me. They're kind of upset that I'm on the show to be honest because it wasn't what I had set out to do. I would hopefully be directing movies now or writing them."
Q: Your grandparents founded the first radio station in Las Vegas (KENO), did you ever work as a DJ on KENO?
Matthew: "No I didn't, that was way before I was born. My mother was pretty active in it. I think they gave up the station in the mid-60's."
Q: Your web site is quite possibly one of the most unusual places I've ever visited, where did you get the idea for the design?
Matthew: "Oh, thank you so much for finding it, I'm honored! To be honest, the design was born out of not knowing anything about programming and what would be the simplest way of getting information out. I'm not the biggest fan of technique. I wanted to do a simple, honest, hand-written web page."
Q: You've created several short films, going forward do you hope to do more work behind the camera?
Matthew: "Oh definitely. That's what I'm better at doing than anything. I've been fortunate enough with the show that I've been able to work in some time. I did a music video recently. It's what I'll do one day when the show slows down or gets cancelled."
Q: I understand you wear two different socks, what's the significance?
Matthew: "My grandmother told me at a very early age that it was good luck to not wear matching socks, which I've come interpret to as bad luck to wear matching socks because the one time I wore matching socks in ten years was when I was acting in this movie called The Life Aquatic. We were doing a moment where Bill Murray is leading us in exercises and somehow I managed to sprain my ankle on camera. It actually wound up being in the movie. I attribute that entirely to me wearing matching socks."
Q: Tell us about Dr. Spencer Reid.
Matthew: "He's an eccentric genius, with hints of schizophrenia and minor autism, Asperger's Syndrome. Reid is 24, 25 years old with three PH.D.'s and one can't usually achieve that without some form of autism."
Q: What's ahead on Criminal Minds for Spencer?
Matthew: "I've heard some pretty exciting stuff! I've heard I have an archenemy coming up. He's a kid I went to school who is one I.Q. point smarter, a little bit taller, better looking. He lives in New Orleans and plays jazz. They've hinted at shades of schizophrenia with Reid. I know his mother was schizophrenic and he has a fear of going schizophrenic himself. I'd like to think that one day down the line he will go schizophrenic and maybe turn into the type of person they'll chase relentlessly."
Q: How is your personality similar to your character?
Matthew: "He's not too similar. He's a genius and I'm technically and functionally retarded [laughs]. In the show, Reid was sort of hand-picked from college. He's in the FBI, but he didn't strive to achieve that or have any intention of doing that. Gideon (Mandy Patinkin) recruited him and I feel kind of akin to that because I had no real intention of being an actor or being on a show. I've sort of fallen into it. Reid makes the most of it and so do I. It's fun and quite an honor."
Q: How are you different?
Matthew: "He's a PH.D. in physics and mathematics and nobody knows what the third one is and I'm in no way scientifically minded. I think he's way more analytical than I am."
Q: What's ahead for Matthew?
Matthew: "Thanks to the show, I've been drawing and painting a lot because we have a lot of down time on the set and it's the perfect amount of time to make pictures. I've had a few art gallery exhibits and I hope that continues. I hope to direct some more. I just shot a movie with John Malkovich and Tom Hanks that is coming out in April."
Q: Anything you want to say to the fans?
Matthew: "I'm beyond proud and happy - I never imagined I would have one fan, and there seems to be a few. I just couldn't be happier that people seem to like what I'm doing and seem to respond to it. If they weren't there, I don't know what I'd be doing right now."
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Matthew Gray Gubler: Wes Anderson's hapless intern gives gophering another go in the director's highly anticipated new film
"I had to get a perm," explains actor Matthew Gray Gubler of his
surreptitious jump from being an intern in director Wes Anderson's New York City
production office to playing one in the dowdy filmmaker's new movie, The Life
Aquatic With Steve Zissou. "I went from getting mango chutney for these guys to
all of a sudden having production assistants and cars," says the 24-year-old Las
Vegas native--a New York University film school grad, model, and self-proclaimed
children's magician--of his transition to onscreen gopher. "I was just sitting
around, relaxing with this perm. It was the ugliest perm in the history of
cinema. They said it would be a cool perm, and I was like, 'Are you mad? Perms
aren't cool.'"
Yet, Gubler's hair-raising antics in Anderson's office are rumored to be what earned him the spot in The Life Aquatic alongside a roster of bigwigs like Bill Murray, Cate Blanchett, Willem Dafoe, Anjelica Huston, Jeff Goldblum, and Owen Wilson. "I was maybe the worst intern in history," admits Gubler, recounting sordid tales of attempting to deliver a rather large painting--a gift from Murray to Anderson--after stopping off for a drink, or unsuccessfully shopping for couscous when "I don't even know what couscous is."To Gubler's credit, whatever he's not doing seems to be working. Since completing The Life Aquatic, he has wrapped production on his own film, a "fairy tale-macabre western-horror movie" called The Cactus That Looked Just Like a Man, and acquired an acting agent. "The toughest acting I've ever done was on those terrible runway catwalks," says Gubler, who was once bestowed the coveted title of No. 46 on the all-time best-male-model list. "These days I can't even walk into cafeterias without feeling self-conscious."
Yet, Gubler's hair-raising antics in Anderson's office are rumored to be what earned him the spot in The Life Aquatic alongside a roster of bigwigs like Bill Murray, Cate Blanchett, Willem Dafoe, Anjelica Huston, Jeff Goldblum, and Owen Wilson. "I was maybe the worst intern in history," admits Gubler, recounting sordid tales of attempting to deliver a rather large painting--a gift from Murray to Anderson--after stopping off for a drink, or unsuccessfully shopping for couscous when "I don't even know what couscous is."To Gubler's credit, whatever he's not doing seems to be working. Since completing The Life Aquatic, he has wrapped production on his own film, a "fairy tale-macabre western-horror movie" called The Cactus That Looked Just Like a Man, and acquired an acting agent. "The toughest acting I've ever done was on those terrible runway catwalks," says Gubler, who was once bestowed the coveted title of No. 46 on the all-time best-male-model list. "These days I can't even walk into cafeterias without feeling self-conscious."
Sarah Cristobal is a New York City-based writer.
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Matthew Romanada Interview
Matt Romanada Talks To Criminal Minds
stars Matthew Gray Gubler and Kirsten Vangsness
Posted By Matthew Romanada on 09.20.2006
Posted By Matthew Romanada on 09.20.2006
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Criminal Minds
During the CTV upfronts back in May I
was given the opportunity to sit down with two of the stars of the surprise hit
Criminal Minds, Kirsten Vangness who plays Penelope Garcia, and Matthew Gray
Gubler who portrays Dr. Spencer Reid. Despite having to go through multiple
interviews in a morning and flying in from Los Angeles both Matthew and Kirsten
were in good spirits and showed a great sense of humour that made it hard to
keep on track during the interview. The sarcasm was flying from all
directions
Criminal Minds was one of the surprise
freshman hits from last season. Despite going up against the juggernaut Lost it
held its own and build a solid fan base. The show follows a group of FBI agents
from the BAU, the Behavioral Analysis Unit, as they fly across the United States
trying to solve the “unsolvable” crimes. It has a hint of Silence of the Lambs
and succeeds where shows like Profiler failed.
Season 2 of Criminal Minds premieres
tonight at 9 p.m. on CBS and CTV in Canada. It appears weekly on Wednesday
nights at 9 p.m.
Kirsten: I did two plays yesterday. And
then at 10:30 at night I got on a plane and flew here [Toronto], and got here
this morning at 6:30 a.m. So I’m feeling a little surreal right now. It’s like a
big Salvador Dali movie.
Romo: What were the plays
about?
Kirsten: It was a young writer’s
festival. Where these young kids write plays and professional actors portray
them.
Romo: Maybe it’s just me but I find
it’s interesting that you two are here together. I get this vibe that there is a
strange chemistry between your two characters.
Matthew: In real life we are married….
I’m totally kidding.
Kirsten: There is something… I think we
are both two of the odder characters on the show. And that I think Garcia is a
very high functioning oddball. She can act extroverted even though her job is so
techie. He (Matthew’s character) is not as good at handling social
aspects.
Matthew: She represents everything he
is not, she is very tech oriented and I would like to imagine he is more like
1920s smart, books and reading etc….
Kirsten: You have such a hard time with
empathy. You struggle with it. Whereas my emotions are so available to me and
Reed as more trouble with emotions.
Matthew: Yeah I like that.
Romo: Did you find that because of the
“smart” personality of your characters people think you are like that in real
life as well?
Matthew: I’m actually borderline
retarded. Yeah, but seriously people will stop me and go “Are you really that
smart?” and I just say no…lol
Romo: So what do you guys think is
going to happen for season 2?
Kirsten: I think we are going to travel
now by hot air balloon.
Matthew: I think there is gonna be more
character development.
Kirsten: YES, I hunger for
that.
Matthew: There are little things that
should come out next year.
Romo: Mandy Patinkin just seems to
bring out the best in the other actors, is that something you have
sensed?
Matthew: Oh yeah, 110%
Kirsten: I think we were on episode
four or five and we had never acted together, so I was terrified. It was a huge
deal. It was like the best day.
Matthew: I’m not a technically trained.
But pretty early on I realized as long as you are in a scene with really great
actors you can’t really suck. I don’t know how to explain it.
Matthew: HE is incredible, he’s our
secret weapon.
Romo: Last year when the upfronts came
out a lot of shows were similar to yours that each network brought out.
Matthew: You’re right. I remember…all
the shows were like ours but Criminal Minds was called the worst of
those.
Kirsten: Ya I remember that.
Romo: What’s made your show the one
that’s survived?
Matthew: I mean we had a really easy
time slot. There is nothing opposite us, like what’s Lost? I’m joking. Honestly
I have no idea. I think it’s the Mandy-quotient.
Kirsten: I definitely think is the
Mandy.
Matthew: I think it’s the characters
too. We have all these crazy characters.
Kirsten: Our show kinda has that horror
thing going for it. It has the whole CSI aspect but adds that horror feel to it.
Also, I mean do other shows have their own personal Lear Jet? I don’t think
so.
Matthew: People always stop me and ask
me if that is a real jet?
Kirsten: My sister was heart-broken
when she found out it wasn’t real.
Romo: A lot of the plots in your show
are very paranormal. If you guys could have one case that you guys think would
be amazing that you haven’t seen what would it be?
Matthew: I have two. I can only say one
though. We hunt down the Yeti, the abominable snowman. That would be
great.
Kirsten: I would love one that the
reason why the guy killed everyone was because America doesn’t have good primary
daycare. Then Mandy goes into the daycare and throws some clay at the
teacher.
Matthew: Throw some play-do
around.
Kirsten: We need to call the writers.
Maybe we could combine the Yeti with the daycare.
Matthew: Maybe the Yeti can run a
primary daycare.
Romo: Do you get meet any FBI profilers
to get into your characters?
Matthew: Ya there were two, Chris….
And…
Kirsten: Yeah the other guy is awesome.
But yeah people would always say that my character wasn’t realistic. Then one
day I get this note on my desk saying “We appreciate you.” And then one of the
profilers came up to me and said, “I want you to know there is a whole basement
of people like you at the BAU (Behavioral Analysis Unit) and they worship
you.”
Matthew: I had the exact opposite
reaction. During the pilot the guy Chris was there and I went to ask him
something about what would my character do in real life. He looks at me and says
“There is nothing realistic about your character…
Kirsten: Hahahaha.
Matthew: (Continued) …You would never
make it in the FBI. You would get made fun of. You would never exist. Heck, you
couldn’t pass your gun test.” So I like “Alright” and it gave me this freedom to
do what I want. I’m kinda like the Jar-Jar Binks of Criminal Minds.
Kirsten: And they have that big giant
scary book upstairs they get stories out of.
Romo: What’s this big giant scary book
about?
Matthew: It’s a compendium of sex
crimes.
Kirsten: It just sits in the middle of
the writers table and it’s kinda scary.
Matthew: Many of the stories in the
show are based a bit on reality.
Romo: Do you get to talk to the writers
about where your characters are going to go?
Kirsten: Yeah totally. I’m almost
creepy. I will kinda see how it flows and they kinda just let me do how I think
it works best. And they do the same thing with you.
Matthew: Yeah, it’s true. We are very
fortunate.
Romo: If you guys can have one change
for your characters over the next year what would it be?
Matthew: That’s a good question, man.
There is one thing I would like to see, and they have been kinda hinting at it,
I think my character is definitely schizophrenic. His mother was schizophrenic.
I want to see him freak out and be an unsub. I feel it’s a bit like the force
with the light side and the dark side, and right now he is on the light side. I
think he joined the BAU from stopping himself from doing something
bad.
Kirsten: They can change the title to
CRIMINAL MINDS: FINDING REED!!!
Kirsten: I love my character so much.
Let me think… Well there is that scene of me and J.J. in the stockroom. They
wrote that out. I was just making a joke. I’m changing as I go, more so than the
other characters. I really don’t know.
Romo: Maybe a romantic
interest?
Kirsten: Oh Garcia has plenty of
romantic interests.
Matthew: I think she is a
slut…haha.
Kirsten: You say slut like a bad thing.
She just knows what she likes.
Matthew: But you know she has a lot of
boyfriends.
Kirsten: She has a lot of everything,
boyfriends, girlfriends, upholstery, lemurs. She’s got so many lemurs. I just
want more lemurs.
Matthew: I want less lemurs. Maybe I
will start killing them. You know they say that serial killers start by killing
animals.
Romo: Yeah I read that somewhere
too.
Matthew: We must have read the same
book. I was fascinated with [Ed] Gein. The Wisconsin guy. My fav. Who’s your
favourite?
Romo: My favourite? That’s a good
question. I’m gonna have to say Ted Bundy. I remember watching the Ted Bundy TV
movie and I must have been only 10. I can’t believe my parents let me watch
that.
Matthew: Do you know Albert Fish? He
made soup out of kids.
Kirsten: I love Carl Sagen.
Romo: Well it’s a shame but I’m being
told that time is up, thanks a lot for the interview.
Kirsten: I’m really glad I got to see the lemur thing out. Now you will see lemurs and yetis all over the set of Criminal Minds.
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