169 | Joe Mantegna Faces A Familiar Serial Killer
Best Case Worst Case
X-G Productions
4.1 • 3.2K Ratings
🗓️ 20 March 2020
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Criminal Minds’ Joe Mantegna takes us inside a series of Episodes where a very familiar face played a dangerous role on the show.
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| 0:00.0 | No matter how hard we work on the side of justice, unfortunately, in the end, it can all come down to a jury. |
| 0:12.0 | And those losses where the jury came back with an outright of whittle still haunt me, literally haunt me. |
| 0:21.0 | I think it was vitally important for us to try to portray this organization as honestly as possible. |
| 0:31.0 | Oh, welcome to Best Case Worse Case. This is Jim Clemente Retired FBI profiler, former New York City prosecutor and writer-reducer on the amazing CVS show Criminal Minds. |
| 0:47.0 | And with me today, electronically is... |
| 0:50.0 | Everybody, it's Francie Hakes, former state and federal prosecutor-gem. I am still at XG East in Atlanta after a little bit of R&R. |
| 1:00.0 | But I definitely did not want to miss being able to interview with you our very special guest. |
| 1:06.0 | This is Joe Bantania, aka David Rossi from Criminal Minds. |
| 1:10.0 | Well, Joe, thank you for coming back. This is an amazing opportunity to talk to somebody who not only have I had the pleasure of working with for the last 13 years, but I've seen your work on TV. |
| 1:23.0 | And it's amazing. I mean, the body of work that you have produced over the last 50 years. |
| 1:30.0 | 50 years, yeah. |
| 1:31.0 | 50 years. It's amazing. |
| 1:34.0 | And it's so cool that you were the guy who CVS went to to fill that space and became David Rossi on the BAU. |
| 1:47.0 | The first Italian American member of the BAU on Criminal Minds, as I was the first Italian American member of the BAU in the FBI. |
| 1:58.0 | Perfect. Well, you were my role model. |
| 2:00.0 | And there you go. Well, I'm very excluded. I'm wondering, is there a pasta on the table, Jim? Did you schedule this interview? |
| 2:08.0 | Knowing I'd get a tap just to exclude me from the Italian. |
| 2:11.0 | No, I'm not just going to leave it though. You never know. |
| 2:13.0 | Well, you know, well, Fred, see, the fact is that if you were actually an FBI agent and cool, then you'd be in the room too with us. |
| 2:21.0 | Every matter of prosecutor across the country has just slept their head in disgust. |
| 2:28.0 | So what I played a few prosecutors actually, twice I played a prosecutor in a film of Madonna, a body of evidence. |
| 2:35.0 | I was also a prosecutor in the film Suspect with Cher. |
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