OUT WITH AN ‘EXCLAMATION POINT’ | As for his exit storyline, Moore contemplated ending his Criminal Minds run a year ago, when his contract was expiring, but “artistically, it didn’t feel right to just abruptly be gone” at the end of Season 1o. Episode 16 with Danny Glover, and now this final episode… you’re going to see a side of Derek Morgan that, I would be willing to bet, you had no idea was in him.”
And in 11 years, I’m so proud of the layers that we peeled back. Let him be charming, let him be serious, let him be the big brother, let him be the alpha male, but let him have some vulnerabilities, let him have some demons, let him be a real man. “Even though it’s pretend, it’s not pretend for many people in the world, but I wanted Derek to have layers. “As an African-American man, am I willing to go out there to the world and admit that I have been molested?” he remembers thinking. So when a Season 2 episode planted the seed for Derek’s childhood molestation secret, which would be revisited six years later, he relished - and hails the importance of - the dark development. Moore says that while he was OK with his position as “the guy with the six-pack and the muscles who kicks down the doors,” the fact is he had already doffed his shirt plenty as The Young and the Restless’ Malcolm Winters. RELATED Criminal Minds, NCIS and 22 Others Get Finale Dates at CBS “You got to know your heroes, everybody had a position to play.” That’s really cool, but I was like, ‘This show’s not going to go anywhere.’ And then all of a sudden it got picked up.”Īt that point, Moore nudged for changes, including getting Derek out of the same suit that Hotch and Reid would wear and fashion him more as “the tough guy.” When Patinkin abruptly exited the show in 2007 (“He wanted to do it a different way, but what he did is he got our show off the ground,” Moore notes), that - coupled with Mantegna’s arrival - allowed Criminal Minds to “find our own identity, and all of a sudden it became a true team,” Moore says. “You had Mandy Patinkin - ‘My name is Inigo Montoya and you killed my father, prepare to die.’ Like, OK.
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IN THE BEGINNING | Looking back on Derek Morgan’s evolution up to and including his final hour, “To use a sports analogy, I left it all on the field,” Moore says. “There is nothing, especially after this Wednesday night, I can do to top it.” All of which is the highest of praise, considering how bearish he was on the show’s initial prospects, in a TV climate that at the time hosted “103 cop shows” (as he puts it). I want balance, and it’s hard to do with the schedule that we have.” “I love what I do for a living, I love it from ‘action’ to ‘cut’, but I also want to walk my dogs, travel, get married, have kids. “I’m leaving to see what else I’m capable of.”īeyond the professional, and akin to Derek’s own decision, “I need balance in my life,” Moore adds. “I didn’t direct, I didn’t write, but I grew, and I’m leaving because I want to continue to grow as an actor,” Moore shares. RELATED 2016 Renewal Scorecard: What’s Coming Back? What’s Getting Cancelled? What’s on the Bubble? Ergo his decision to bid adieu to Derek Morgan, who in the March 23 episode decided to leave the BAU and focus on being a family man, with wife Savannah (who, like Derek, had barely dodged an UnSub’s bullet) and their newborn son - Hank Spencer Morgan. “It was nice to see everybody growing.”Īnd now, Moore wants… more. And then Kirsten got inspired, and I supported her. And AJ is a mother of two and took time out for her life and came back,” he continues. “Matthew started directing, and that inspired Joe.
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