2012/02/15

set love



“Shemar and I have this little game where we pretend not to like each other. But, between you and me, I like everyone on the set. But Shemar and I… I know we’re not related ‘cause he’s black and I’m not, but I wouldn’t be surprised if you looked at our genealogy tree, if you went back years and years and years, if you found a little hint of relation. I just feel a real affinity for him.” -Matthew Gray Gubler





“He wants to call his agent and get out of scenes that I’m in. It’s only season fucking two. Season fucking two and he wants to get out of scenes with me — I made this fucking guy. I got him to number fucking four. I gave up my slot for this motherfucking geek ass boy who thinks he’s the star.” -Shemar Moore








facts

Matthew is an Eagle Scout.

Matthew directed the music videos Don't Shoot Me Santa by The Killers as well as Reagan and My Electric Underwear by Whirlwind Heat.

Matthew has a fear of blood (hemophobia).

Matthew says that Wes Anderson is his favorite director.

Matthew has admitted to being a Star Wars fan, he says he is 100% obsessed with the movies. 

He's a fan of Andy Kaufman.

Matthew appeared in a Fatboy Slim video called Wonderful Night

Matthew once stated that the best movies made in the last decade are The Big Lebowski, Boogie Nights, Home Alone, Rushmore, and Route 66.

 Matthew's favorite TV Show Is Carnivàle. In the Criminal Minds Special Feature DVD Meeting Matthew Gray Gubler, Matthew says He's obsessed with the HBO Series.

Matthew not only likes taking baths, he also likes carving pumpkins, playing badminton, eating cashews, and spending time with his friends and family.

Matthew is a neat freak.

The first time in years that Matthew wore matching socks, he sprained his ankle.

Matthew had red hair when he was young.

He proudly talked about his brother Gray being in Whirlwind Heat's "Reagan" music video in which he directed in early 2006.

2012/02/14

quotes

Matthew: (about being offered the role on Criminal Minds) I was like 'They really wanna cast me?' and they  were like 'yeah.' and I was like 'cool.'

Matthew: (about his family) My family still knows I'm an idiot, thank god.

Matthew: (describing his character, Dr. Spencer Reid) He's kinda like Doogie Howser, if he had a gun.

Matthew: (about being an intern for Wes Anderson) I was maybe the worst intern in history. I don't even know what couscous is.

Matthew: (about his jump from Intern in Wes Anderson's NYC production to playing another intern in the movie The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou) I had to get a perm. I went from getting mango chutney for these guys (Wes and his production crew) to all of a sudden having production assistants and cars. I was just sitting around, relaxing with this perm. It was the ugliest perm in the history of cinema. They said it would be a cool perm, and I was like, 'Are you mad? Perms aren't cool.'

Matthew: (about his style) I am embarrasingly 1920s in style. I like to be in bed at 11, and I like to get 11 hours of sleep. I've been to three parties in my life and two of them with Shemar. He's slowly trying to wean me into [that scene].

Matthew: (talking about a shirt with a drawling of himself that he drew himself) Anytime someone wears a picture of themself drawn by themself on their own shirt you can--yeah I feel like a jerk.

Matthew: (describing to the cameraman what he looked like when he was young) That's me, I look like a sort of like a fat Meg Ryan.

Matthew: (joking about his co-star Shemar Moore's six pack abs) My six pack is better then Shemar's. Tell Shemar I said my six pack is a little better then his. It's a seven pack.

Matthew: (about which Reid He likes better) I kinda like the old school Reid a little more. Naïve Reid. I was doing the math in my head during the drug addiction script. In like 30 episodes, he's been held hostage three times, has killed two people, a kid he identified with slashed his wrists in front of him, he was shot full of heroin.

Matthew: (joking about his character) In the first episode I'm like Macaulay Culkin. I'm so young. Now I look really old and decrepit.

Matthew: (thinking he had toothpaste on the side of his mouth) I will literally stop in the middle of scenes to check.

biography

Matthew was born on March 9, 1980, to John Gubler, an attorney, and Marilyn Kelch Gubler, a rancher, political consultant and a former chairwoman of the Nevada Republican Party. He was raised in a quiet neighborhood near Bob Baskin Park in Las Vegas, Nevada. From the day he was born, his parents knew he was a special child. As a teenager, Matthew attended the Las Vegas Academy of Peforming Arts High School followed by a four-year class at Las Vegas Academy of International Studies, Performing and Visual Arts with a major in drama. After he graduated from the Academy in 1998, he began studying at the University of California in Santa Cruz.

Two years later, Matthew left California and moved to New York where he enrolled at the Tisch School of the Arts and graduated in 2002. While in Manhattan, he walked the runways for some of the biggest fashion designers, such as Marc Jacobs, Burberry, Louis Vuitton, Tommy Hilfiger and Sisley. Barbara Pfister, a fashion designer for Vanity Fair and other popular fashion magazines, discovered him and later cast him for a Royal Tenenbaums-type family layout for Kate Spade that ran in fashion magazines in the fall that same year. Matthew was interning for Wes Anderson at the same time as the modeling gig, and Wes encouraged him to audition for a part in his movie, The Life Aquatic. He was cast as Intern #1 (later named Nico the Intern).

While Filming The Life Aquatic, Matthew made the mini-documentary Matthew Gray Gubler's Life Aquatic Intern Journal, which was a behind-the-scenes look at the movie. Several amateur critics claimed the documentary was better then the movie itself. In 2003, Matthew returned to his alma mater, Las Vegas Academy, for the school's 10th anniversary and spoke to the student assembly.

Matthew also made two other short films: The Cactus That Looked Just Like a Man (2005) and Claude: A Symphony of Horror (2005). He directed five documentaries and videos, in 2007 During Criminal Minds' first summer hiatus, Matthew wrote his first children's book as well as star in the live action movie Alvin and the Chipmunks and again in 2009's Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Sqweakuel in which he was the voice of Simon in both movies.

Matthew is best known for his role as the young genius, Dr. Spencer Reid, in the CBS TV show, Criminal Minds. He also directed one episode of the show in 2010.