Earlier than you knew Aimee Garcia as forensic scientist Ella Lopez on Lucifer and neuropsychiatrist Dr. Julia Ochoa on Felony Minds: Evolution, she visitor starred on Supernatural — the present that starred Jared Padalecki and Jensen Ackles as brothers who hunted monsters turns 20 this 12 months! — in its third season in 2008.
“I had the greatest time with these guys. My dad and mom got here on set, and I do bear in mind my mother flirting with Jensen shamelessly in entrance of my father, and he or she’s like — She’s Mexican, so English is her second language. She’s like, ‘Oh, Jensen, you might be chewing gum earlier than they begin the scene. After which they name motion. After which the place does the gum go? I [don’t] see it whilst you shoot the scene.’ I’m like, ‘Mother, you can’t flirt with Jensen!’” Garcia recalled when TV Insider spoke together with her about her Felony Minds: Evolution character just lately.
“It was a lot enjoyable to play a virgin that must be sacrificed to avoid wasting the world. I want she would’ve gotten to have some enjoyable earlier than she did. However I do bear in mind these guys simply being so welcoming to my household, and it was only a blast,” she added.
Garcia appeared in Season 3 Episode 12 “Jus in Bello.” In that episode, Sam (Padalecki) and Dean (Ackles) ended up in a police station when Agent Henriksen (visitor star Charles Malik Whitfield) was alerted of their whereabouts and arrested them. Garcia’s Nancy was the secretary from whom Sam stole a rosary to make use of to exorcise a demon from Henriksen.
Nancy was additionally the one they wanted (a virgin) to finish a spell to take out all the demons surrounding the station. Sam and Dean refused to sacrifice Nancy, however the younger girl (and everybody else in the station) nonetheless ended up useless, at the fingers of Lilith.
Now, Garcia’s Julia on Felony Minds: Evolution additionally believes in faith, as she shared with JJ (A.J. Prepare dinner) in the Thursday, June 5, episode. The physician is seemingly the just one on serial killer Voit’s (Zach Gilford) aspect as the BAU reckons with the revelation that he’s not a psychopath in line with his mind scans following a jail assault and subsequent coma. Julia additionally instructed JJ about shedding her father at a younger age. Since we are able to’t assist however suppose there could possibly be extra to the physician than meets the eye, we needed to ask her if she was being truthful in that dialog.
“I performed it very actually, as a result of whereas I do suppose once you’re making an attempt to be emotionally supportive to somebody, you attempt to discover frequent floor. If somebody says, ‘Oh, I had a nasty day at work,’ you’re like, ‘Oh, so did I, you’re not alone.’ I feel our empathetic nature is to make the particular person we’re making an attempt to assist really feel much less alone and really feel supported,” Garcia instructed us. “I do really feel like she is a grasp of the mind. She’s a mind physician. She is aware of methods to set off individuals. She is aware of methods to calm individuals down. She is aware of what medicines to provide individuals. So I feel there’s a facet of her professionalism coming into play. However I personally, as an actor did play it as if she did lose her dad and he or she does carry a crucifix. She is a girl of religion. And I feel that it was actually stunning seeing these two skilled girls bond over loss, which is such a common idea that all of us might relate to.”
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