FBI‘s Juliana Aiden Martinez broke her silence on a attainable return to Regulation & Order: SVU after exiting the present.
“It was such a good time that I had with the SVU solid. I’d by no means say by no means,” Martinez, who performed Junior Detective Kate Silva, completely advised Us Weekly about making the transfer from NBC to CBS. “It was a very fantastic expertise that I bought to have with everybody there.”
Whereas Martinez isn’t ruling out a return, she is presently targeted on her new gig.
“It will by no means be a state of affairs during which I’d say no,” she famous. “But in addition, I’m actually glad being right here and telling the story of Eva Ramos. I’m open to no matter comes however I’m additionally actually glad the place I’m at.”
Martinez joined Regulation & Order: SVU in season 26 however has since departed alongside Octavio Pisanowho performed Detective Joe Velasco since season 23. After information broke, Pisano returned to handle Joe’s departure whereas Martinez remained targeted on becoming a member of the solid of CBS’ hit sequence FBI.
Each SVU and FBI are set in producer Dick Wolf’s TV universewhich might enable for a crossover.
“I’d love that. That will be actually, actually cool,” Martinez advised Us in regards to the probability to convey again Kate whereas additionally enjoying Eva. “I don’t suppose that may occur. I’d in all probability simply be off for the week that we do a crossover.”
Martinez joked that it may be “means too sophisticated” to elucidate each of her characters current in the identical place, including, “I might simply go on trip for every week and they’ll simply work between the 2 reveals. That being mentioned, it might be an absolute dream. I’d simply be altering outfits in between each characters and that might be superior.”
Even when Martinez doesn’t reprise the position of Kate, she has been having a blast on FBI.
“On SVU, I simply keep in mind I’d stroll in and I’d think about 26 years of working a present and the quantity of people that walked via these buildings. The quantity of historical past there actually feels such as you’re getting into a legacy that’s embedded even within the constructing,” she recalled. “With the folks on FBI, it’s happening its eighth yr, which is unimaginable.”
FBIwhich premiered in 2018, facilities on the interior workings of the New York Metropolis discipline workplace felony division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the place the personnel work to make sure the security of New York Metropolis and its residents. The CBS procedural has pushed and reinvigorated Martinez.
“Earlier than I got here into the present, I sat down with showrunner Mike Weiss and advised me who he was considering Eva was going to be. That was actually the deciding issue for me to be like, ‘Sure, that is one thing that’s very fascinating to me. That is one thing that I feel I can supply and provides worth to and make it thrilling and totally different,’” she advised Us. “I favored that she was totally different than Kate in SVU. I actually like that Eva got here from a prosecutorial background so she’s very a lot somebody that’s not afraid to talk her thoughts and isn’t afraid to be the neatest individual within the room. She’s unabashed in that sense and she or he’s unabashedly female, robust and has an enormous coronary heart.”
Martinez loved the problem of not doing a “copy and paste” of Kate.
“Whenever you be a part of a brand new present, you get the chance to do one thing totally different. It was undoubtedly like, ‘OK, how are you going to present totally different sides of a career? How are you going to present how totally different ladies method one thing otherwise?’” she defined. “It’s cool that Eva to me is simply somebody totally different. The place Kate Silva would have been like, ‘I’m too robust to even need a relationship’ however Eva in all probability desires about what Scola has and getting married and having a household. There’s a coronary heart forwardness to her that I actually like.”
Even doing the stunts has allowed Martinez to like her “childhood dream” out on display screen, including, “That’s me working. I do have fantastic stunt folks they usually do such an unimaginable job after they don’t enable me to do the stunts. Personally, I wish to do all of the stunts. However it’s undoubtedly demanding. I do contemplate myself innately an athlete so I’ve been in a position to make use of that in methods I wasn’t capable of do on SVU. The flexibility to essentially use my physique and be in a narrative bodily and dynamically is admittedly enjoyable.”
FBI airs on CBS Mondays at 9 p.m. ET.