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Last week Matthew Gray Gubler directed a very creepy episode of “Criminal Minds” entitled “Mosley Lane,” and this week the star of the hit CBS procedural drama turns 30. Thus, we here at Hollywood Crush, who honored the crime-fighting babe as 2009’s Hump Day Hottie of the Year (press play below to relive his original HDH video), extend the warmest birthday wishes to the man who makes grandpa sweaters look so good.

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What’s one way to cope with directing withdrawal? Chop off your hair.

That’s what Matthew Gray Gubler did.

“When it ended, I was so distraught, like, ‘Oh no! What do I do?’ … I was so bored. I just flipped out and cut my damn hair! I did it with, like, a hunting knife. It was bad,” the Criminal Minds star tells TVGuide.com. “I looked like a Super Mario Bros. Goomba. It’s arguably the ugliest haircut on the planet.”

Unfortunately, no one will get to see the result of his raw barber skills as his ‘do was “shaped up” at work. But fans will get to see Gubler’s other skills — and the realization of his lifelong dream — Wednesday: his directorial debut on the hit series (9/8c, CBS). “I hate to take credit, but it turned out to be something I’m very proud of,” he says. “If there’s one thing I’m good at, I would hope to God it’s directing because I know that I’ve spent pretty much the last 28 years of my life preparing for that!”

Though he’s best known for playing Dr. Spencer Reid on the crime serial, Gubler, who turns 30 on March 9, aspired to be a filmmaker and boasts a degree in film directing from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. Following graduation, he “accidentally got sideswiped” into acting after a role in The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou by Wes Anderson, for whom he was interning at the time. Then came Minds in 2005, followed by “tons of flak” from friends for having chosen acting over filmmaking.

“I feel like I finally got my last laugh. Those five years have trained me so well — being able to communicate with and understand actors, which I really didn’t learn in school. I wasn’t nervous directing [my co-stars] since we’re like family now,” Gubler says. “I’ve always really felt bizarrely — not out of place — but confused that I’m on a hit show, getting a lot of work as an actor and having a great time, but it never made sense to me because I’ve always felt like my true calling was being a filmmaker. I’ve realized now that it was all just leading up to this moment.”

A former child magician and a sketch artist, Gubler — who has directed music videos and makes a series of online satirical videos about his life — says he has always loved entertaining. His creative pursuits have been on the show before — he’s done magic in episodes, and his own sketch of Nathan Harris (Anton Yelchin) was used in Season 2’s “Sex, Birth and Death” (after, on Mandy Patinkin’s suggestion, he ripped up the prop department’s “horribly accurate, perfect tracing of Anton’s face,” he laughs). He made his directing ambitions known, but it wasn’t until the end of Season 4 that Gubler approached executive producer/showrunner Ed Bernero about finally stepping behind the camera. “Ed goes, ‘You’re ready. All you had to do was ask,’” Gubler says. “He’s been very encouraging of my art and all the things I’ve made.”

Titled “Mosley Lane,” Gubler’s episode finds the BAU team trailing a child abductor — “a modern-day Hansel and Gretel dark fairy tale,” he calls it. A fan of the German expressionist film movement, during which films featured moody perspectives from the victims, Gubler employed the same tactic, using a young girl to give viewers a childlike look into “this eerily magical environment.” He took a more straightforward approach, however, when showcasing the unsubs, whom he classifies as “entirely non-sympathetic.”

“What appealed to me as a director is that these people are bad. When we look at them, we know immediately,” he says. “Bad guys being bad and good guys being good is what drama at its core is. It lets the creepiness be creepy. There’s not a drop of blood [in the episode] but it will creep you out. Some of it is in a crematorium. I found a three-story Victorian mansion that looks like it’s straight out of a Charles Addams cartoon. … I was amazed at the amount of creative freedom TV directors get if they want it — stuff that I didn’t know you get to do, but you can if you want to, and I wanted to. The most fun was picking out the details, picking out the syringe, the purse the woman has.”

Gubler was equally hands-on in securing the guest stars — Brooke Smith, Bud Cort, Beth Grant, Ann Cusack, Toby Huss and a group of what he calls “the most talented kid actors today.”

Forest Whitaker to star in Criminal Minds spin-off

There’s an entirely new group of faces on the set lately. The series is currently shooting the backdoor pilot for a spin-off to be headlined by Forest Whitaker, which has “an amazing element of dark grunge,” Gubler says. “It’s like ‘Criminal Minds: Lower East Village.’”

As for the mothership, Gubler, whose screen time has been limited this season after he destroyed his knee dancing last spring (he can’t do anything but walk until October), senses another season-finale cliffhanger and maybe — hopefully — another stint in the director’s chair.

“It’s a scheduling thing … but I would love that. It was the greatest,” he says. “If given the choice, I would direct every episode of the show for free.”

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Ever wondered why Dr. Reid (Matthew Gray Gubler) had to wield a cane throughout this season on Criminal Minds? Apparently, Gubler injured his knee pretty bad while promoting (500) Days of Summer, where he played part of main protagonist Tom’s posse. For Criminal Minds fans who are worried that their young genius would sport a lifelong limp, Gubler tells USA Weekend that the injury is now a thing of the past.

“I’ve actually started to feel like a regular person again,” he says. “I forget which knee I even hurt at times, which is pretty amazing considering it was about a seven-month adventure. I really did a good job.”

That doesn’t mean, however, that the knee injury was something to laugh at. Not only did he have to undergo three surgeries, if anything, he says it was a “bad, bad” one. It even got to a point when his doctors were already suggesting experimental surgeries in Norway.

“I just got a little too overzealous on the dance floor and managed to pretty much do something that most knee surgeons have never even thought possible or seen in their lives. But they screwed me back together,” he explains, “hoping it would work and thinking it wouldn’t, and luckily my body completely took back everything.”

Can he discard the cane any day now? Absolutely.

“I have a limp now and I’ve been walking with a cane for a while, but it’s going away. I won’t be permanently affected by this, which is pretty odd. It’s really a miracle. They were like, “This is one of the worst injuries we’ve ever seen.” They were saying it was pretty legendary. It’s going to go down in a textbook somewhere for sure.”

As for how the Criminal Minds people reacted to his “legendary” injury, the 29-year-old reveals that they didn’t even believe him initially.

“I think to the day that people at Criminal Minds have honestly no understanding of what kind of injury it was… I thought I was going to be out for four episodes on crutches, and it ended up being like 12. It was a pretty crazy thing.”

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This little article is nothing new really but i thought i would share it anyway.

Criminal Minds fans may have noticed Matthew Gray Gubler, who plays Dr. Spencer Reid, has been using a cane for most of this season. That isn’t a plot point, notes USA Weekend’s Brian Truitt.

Gubler hurt his knee some seven months ago while being “a little too overzealous” on the dance floor and has been recovering ever since. Gubler tells Truitt that it was such a “unique” and “legendary” injury – in which his knee was basically “dismantled” – that he figures it will “go down in a textbook somewhere for sure.”

Although Gubler says he’s “on very strict instructions not to do anything (other than walk) until October of 2010,” he will eventually be able to walk without a cane and even without a limp. “It’s really a miracle.”

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From TV Guide (January 25-31, 2010) Sweeps Preview Issue:

…But what he really wants to do is direct.

Matthew Gray Gubler (aka Dr. Spencer Reid) becomes the first costar to step behind the camera with the March 3 episode, one of three originals scheduled for sweeps. In Gubler’s big episode, the BAU tracks a family of killers who owns a crematorium. “I finally got the gumption [last season] to ask, ‘What do I have to do to prove that I’m ready to direct?’” says Gubler, who’s helmed short films and videos and shadowed exec producer Ed Bernero on a pilot. “My main concern will be creating suspense,” he says. As for his fellow actors, “I’d like them to let something new out.” If they don’t? Jokes Gubler, “I’m gonna fire a few and get rid of the deadweight.” But before he does, check out the February 3 installment, which guest stars Sex and the City’s David Eigenberg, and the February 10 episode, in which a serial killer terrorizes a small town. “It builds to a spectacular ending,” says exec producer Simon Mirren.

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Matthew came in at the #1 spot on the ‘Hollywood Crush Top 10 Hotties of 2009′ !

1. “Criminal Minds” actor Matthew Gray Gubler

The “Criminal Minds” star returned as Simon in “Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel,” where he cracked the top three at the box office. Since we have a soft spot for guys who play nerds (Dr. Reid and Simon certainly qualify), which is why he made the top HDH for 2009. Let’s not forget he also had us swooning in “(500) Days of Summer.” “Criminal Minds” is sure to get juicier as the season continues so we wouldn’t want to miss a minute of it. And, he seemed pretty excited to come out on top. He simply told Crush of the honor: “Yesssssssssssssssssssssss!”

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It’s no surprise, I mean, check out his bubble beard look of 2009

Here are some links to some articles about ‘Alvin and the Chipmunks 2 – The Squeakquel’, where as we all know Matthew lend his voice to Simon for a second time. We will update this post with more links if there will be anything interesting so check back on this post every now and then.

WIN IT! Alvin and the Chipmunks the Squeakquel Gift Bag
ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS: THE SQUEAKQUEL Movie Photos
Interview with the Chipmunks
New Images For Alvin And The Chipmunks: The Squeakquel

From Korbi TV:

“Criminal Minds” turns 100 this week and, well, there’s a lot going on. Someone’s getting off’ed. Actually, I’m hearing two someones.

It will be very emotional, definitely tissue-worthy and as creator Ed Bernero — who also directed the landmark episode — tells me, there will be a pay off for loyal fans who’ve watched the show since day one.

“We raised a question in the pilot that will be come back around and be answered,” Bernero explained.

The topic at hand: Can you spend your time hunting monsters and not become a monster?

Sounds as though we’ll be finding out shortly.

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MTV posted the following article.

It already sort of makes sense to mention former Bush frontman Gavin Rossdale and “Twilight” star Robert Pattinson in the same sentence, as they’re both hot guys from England. But after tonight’s episode of crime drama “Criminal Minds,” there will be another way the two will cross paths: They’ll both have played sexy vampires.

“Criminal Minds” star Matthew Gray Gubler dished to MTV News about Gavin’s cameo on the show, revealing that Mr. Gwen Stefani will embrace his rocker roots and go for the jugular in the episode which airs tonight at 9 p.m. CBS.

“He may or may not be [a killer]. He plays a vampiric sort of rock star who may or may not be killing people to hype his album,” said Gubler, who plays FBI profiler and psychologist Dr. Spencer Reid. “I’ll be honest: I’ve noticed that [vampire] craze as well and no [we're not trying to cash in]. The thing is that [vampirism] is actually a pretty common delusion.”

He went on to note that since rock stars and vampires seem to have pretty similar schedules (minus the whole blood-sucking thing), it makes sense for Gavin to try the role on for size. “So if you’re going to pick something to fit a rock star, I think we went more with what are the odds of what he would be that cinematically interesting to watch and rather them him being a pedophile,” he explained. “They went with rock star.”

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According to DreamStation a ‘Criminal Minds’ Video game is planned.

LOS ANGELES- October, 29, 2009 – Casual games developer and publisher Legacy Interactive® today announced that they have signed a licensing agreement with CBS Consumer Products to develop a video game based on the popular crime drama series Criminal Minds. The videogame, slated to launch in the fourth quarter of 2010 on the PC, will be the latest addition to their Hollywood HitsTM game series.

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