Alana De La Garza on Her SCORPION Arc, CRIMINAL MINDS: BEYOND BORDERS Gig, and Saying Goodbye to FOREVER
September 21, 2015 by Marisa Roffman
Filed under Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders, Forever, Scorpion
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Alana De La Garza is having a busy, busy year.
De La Garza spent the first part of the year working on the charming ABC procedural, FOREVER, playing Jo Martinez, a New York cop who worked with Henry Morgan, a secretly immortal medical examiner.
When ABC opted to not order a second season of FOREVER, De La Garza was quickly recruited for an arc on the sophomore season of SCORPION, where she’s playing Adriana Molina, the new Director of Homeland Security. But those plans evolved when De La Garza landed a series regular gig on the CRIMINAL MINDS spinoff, CRIMINAL MINDS: BEYOND BORDERS.
I spoke with De La Garza about her “bittersweet” FOREVER goodbye, the “fun dynamic” she gets to play on SCORPION, and the intense training she’s undertaking for BEYOND BORDERS…
