“It’s a little like a different character,” Gilford tells Parade exclusively. “I guess the difference is I had to treat it like I’m meeting all these people for the first time, and I’m developing new relationships with them. So, I had to forget whatever we had done before; that never happened.”
Zach GilfordPhoto Credit: Michael Yarish/Paramount+
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“I try to just play it straight and see what happens,” Gilford continues, not revealing if it is a scam on Voit’s part to get out of prison. “I think whenever an actor tries to play a secret within a secret within a secret, you start to overthink it and get lost in what secret you’re in. So, if he is some sort of master actor who can fake this, then I’ll just play it as if it’s real, because I guess he’s a great actor who can do it.”
Aimee Garcia, Joe Mantegna, and Zach GilfordPhoto Credit: Michael Yarish/Paramount+
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Gilford sees the connection between Voit and JJ as that of family. They are the only two characters who both have children. That said, Voit’s children have been relocated and given new identities, following the reveal of his Sicarius identity. So he is suffering their loss just as JJ is grieving the loss of Will. Gilford sees it as a tie that binds them together.
“None of the other agents have kids,” he says. “So, Voit and JJ have that shared piece of humanity. As much of a monster as this guy is, I think JJ sees and understands his attachment to his family and knows what that is. And I think, Voit, even when he was being a jerk, I think he connected to JJ in that way, where she’s a mom and he’s a dad. She’s the only one who can tap into that. Everyone else, because they don’t have that experience, they can’t really know what Voit’s going through.”
Zach Gilford and A.J. CookPhoto Credit: Michael Yarish/Paramount+
“I think at the beginning it almost was like he was a really weird mentor to him,” Gilford says. “When he was growing up, Voit read all Rossi’s books. It’s how he learned a bunch of stuff about how to understand himself better, how to get away with things. I think there always was a respect for Rossi, but at the same time, Rossi was the one person who could take him down. So, he had to prove that the pupil is now smarter than the sensei. It’s like all he knows is this feeling he has towards this person, so he guesses that person must be his dad. I think it actually is a weirdly logical progression.”
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