Inside the "Criminal Mind" of Thomas Gibson

Inside the "Criminal Mind" of Thomas Gibson
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The very dashing Thomas Gibson stops by the Studio, and after 7 seasons of playing an FBI Behavioral Analyst on "Criminal Minds", could he be developing a mild case of A.D.D.? He certainly keeps busy off the set, what with his tap dancing, ukulele playing, and slide-tackle golf. He also explains his obsession with posting photos of feet on Twitter and his interesting connection with Tom Cruise. Hosted by Oliver Trevena.
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Oliver here at the Young Hollywood Studio with the criminal mind that is Thomas Gibson. How are you?
I'm good. How are you?
Good. Thanks for stopping in.
Oh, my pleasure.
Do you find yourself in your everyday life investigating?
Actually, I I find myself um wanting to tell the TSA about a certain person, you know, um who who looks a little bit, yeah, exactly. They're they're too they're they're too worried about finding, you know, um contraband toothpaste.
I'm sure that would go down well because the TSA are always so smiley and happy.
Well they're always they're always uh they're always uh sort of eager for input.
You're always so busy by the sounds of it.
Yeah, we are actually pretty busy. Um it's just worked out very nicely this week, but uh no, we started actually up in for our seventh season.
And you've been there since the pilot.
Yeah.
Which is amazing.
Yeah, I know. 100 Yeah. Whatever episodes. 100 something.
And you are very active because you you love golf.
I do. I I play golf. I actually play. I just I've got a toenail that's regrowing after a slide tackle from my 12-year-old.
Can we see your toenail?
No, you're kidding. No, you can't. No. We've all seen him.
See, I love that because the league I'm playing for at the moment, they don't allow slide tackling. Come on. Which is shocking.
Well, that's And we get penalized all the time. And yet your kid is sliding. It's exactly. And 8-year-old's allowed to do it, but we can't. It's terrible.
Now, I was doing my research and I saw that you uh Were Were at Juilliard, which is amazing. No. Doing your On a soccer scholarship, no less, yeah. I don't know why. If I don't then, then I'll be able to get in. That's the only way I'm getting into Juilliard. I'll tell you that now. Um No, but you worked at the Tavern on the Green.
I worked at the front desk. I was actually uh one of the, you know, I was sort of an assistant maître d' and uh there was a hair uh a table full of haircuts, I called them, um who were sitting there for like 10 hours one day. They were drinking a lot of champagne.
So a table full of haircuts.
Yeah, a table full of haircuts. It was Duran Duran.
And you share the same birthday as Tom Cruise. tell us.
Apparently, yes. Yes. We uh in fact, we worked together a couple times and we had a birthday party in Montana at a bowling alley that I remember dimly.
How can you dimly remember that?
Because it was a long time ago and And It was beer. I was bowling and beer, so, you know, it was a blur.
Bowling with Tom Cruise. And you cook as well.
I do cook as well.
You're a complete threat to everyone.
Oh, yeah, you know, I try. I try and the tap dancing is outrageous.
Really? Cuz I can tap dance.
Can you really?
That's one thing I can do.
Can you really?
I really can. Yes, I really can.
Well, no. You show me your toenail and I'll tap dance.
Horseback riding as well. Tom Cruise again.
A little bit. Yeah, I was I Well, I needed to be for this movie that he and I did together did together. I needed to look like I'd been on a horse every day of my life. And I hadn't. I'd done a little a little bit of riding, but not enough. But uh by the time we were done, I was uh, you know, jumping jumping uh walls in Ireland and stuff like that. It was great.
Any other man watching this now is going to feel that he's not doing enough. And any any woman watching it is going to feel that their man isn't doing it.
Yeah, none of you're not doing enough. You have to do more.
Twitter. I see that you're always on that.
There was this thing that happened when a fan asked me what so and so was wearing on his feet. So I started tweeting pictures of shoes and feet and socks and stuff like that. Now everybody is sure that I have this ridiculous foot fetish.
Do you?
Yeah. The kids in the hall, do you remember them?
I do remember them. They were in recently.
Yeah. And they have a foot fetish. And I actually showed them my foot and presented it to them. That's true. It stinks. Ready?
I bet you got nice feet.
Oh, yeah. There it is, that thing. Oh, look at that. Yeah, it's nice. Yeah. It's nice, huh?
This is your trophy and we can end the interview. Thank you very much. Give it give it to Scott. Oh, right here. It's to give you the speech. Speech is a queen. But your works are a little bit special. Thank you very much.
I like to thank everyone, the common we'll forgive you. Wonderful crew. Not that I'm going to do that now cuz you wouldn't show me yours, so I won't show you mine.
Two and a Half Men.
Yeah. I got a call from Chuck Lorre and he wanted to, you know, have a few surprises in store for the uh for the for the first episode of that.
Ukulele.
Yeah, I play the uke, but not well. I mean, I just I love I it's fun. It's small. It's mobile. I didn't bring one, but um Um, do you think you suffer from ADD?
No, does it seem like I do? A little bit. Have you diagnosed me? I think I have. I think I've just gone criminal minds on you. I've been profiled.
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PEOPLE MENTIONED
- Thomas Gibson
Featured guest, actor in 'Criminal Minds'
- Oliver Trevena
Host of the interview
- Tom Cruise
Shares a birthday with Gibson, worked together on a movie
- Duran Duran
Gibson encountered them while working at Tavern on the Green
- Chuck Lorre
Called Gibson for 'Two and a Half Men' surprise
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