FBI: Worldwide is on the verge of including a brand new agent to the Fly Crew, with Station 19 alum Jay Hayden becoming a member of the hit CBS drama earlier than the top of the 2024 TV schedule as a visitor star. The actor performs Tyler Sales space, an agent often based mostly out of the U.S. who joins forces with Wes Mitchell when a case takes him to Budapest. Hayden spoke with CinemaBlend to elucidate what about FBI: Worldwide made him need to come again to TV so quickly after Station 19, and it is not simply due to his real-life friendship with Jesse Lee Soffer.
Jay Hayden makes his FBI: Worldwide debut within the episode that airs on Tuesday, December 10 (and streams with a Paramount+ subscription) as one of many present’s final installments earlier than the 2025 TV schedule picks up the second half of Season 4. His arrival comes after Station 19 ended again in the summertime, and never all actors are so fast to come back again to the grueling schedule of community TV. The actor defined what made him need to return to primetime so quickly, saying:
I am unable to imagine it – I believed I used to be going to take a pleasant, lengthy break after Station 19, however… How may I go up a chance to work on a Wolf present? I have been ready to get into that world eternally. No person does crime drama like them. After which, working with certainly one of my closest associates, Jesse Lee Soffer. So sure, I made a decision to come back again just a little early! [laughs] It has been nice. It is fantastic.
Jay Hayden is not kidding when he notes that “no one does crime drama” just like the workforce at Wolf Leisure, a.okay.a. the manufacturing firm behind the hit TV universe at the moment spanning 9 reveals, seven of that are crime collection. His remark about Jesse Lee Soffer additionally tracks with what Soffer himself mentioned earlier this fall about working together with his “actually shut good friend” in Season 4.
Agent Tyler Sales space additionally is not going to be Travis Montgomery 2.0, after Jay Hayden spent 5 seasons and greater than 100 episodes as that Station 19 character. He defined what particularly concerning the character hooked him on Worldwide:
When [showrunner] Matt Olmstead was speaking to me concerning the character that he so splendidly wrote, there was one factor that I linked to loads, which was his relationship together with his daughter and the way a lot she issues to him and means to him, and the way reactive he will be when she turns into in peril. And I hook up with that, and I cherished his love for his daughter, and in addition how generally she wants to provide dad recommendation. [laughs] That I can relate to too. And I used to be like, ‘Oh yeah, I actually like that.’
Hayden is a father of two in actual life, so it tracks that his character’s relationship together with his daughter had a sure attraction to him. His standing as a mum or dad undoubtedly is not the one factor that units Sales space other than Station 19‘s Travis, although, and one other distinction actually hit residence for him as an actor. He previewed what sort of agent Sales space is, and it appears like he could possibly be as a lot of a headache for Smitty as Wes was again at first of the season:
Aso, what a special type of character for me to play by way of [how] he does issues the mistaken manner generally. He thinks that perhaps the shortcut to what we have to do might be the correct approach to go, which isn’t the best way Wes Mitchell does issues. So I actually wished to leap into a personality that I had no expertise enjoying earlier than.
Followers must tune into the brand new episode on December 10 – referred to as “Eager as a Bean” – to completely see what sort of a pair Tyler Sales space and Wes Mitchell are, however CBS’ episode description confirms that he is Mitchell’s “former colleague,” who will want the Fly Crew’s assist in catching a felony on the American Most Wished record. They will have to depend on the ex-wife of the unhealthy man to lure him out of Russia.
And I believe that is sufficient itself for Station 19 followers to grasp what Hayden means about enjoying a “completely different type of character” within the Wolf world! I requested the FBI: Worldwide newcomer what he would say to Station 19 followers about why they need to try his arrival on CBS, and he informed me:
It is undoubtedly a special present and a special tone, however I actually get pleasure from this present loads. I imply, you have watched the present earlier than this, and I watched 4 episodes earlier than I went on the market, simply to be like, ‘What’s the tone of this present, the vitality of this present?’ And I actually get pleasure from it. I actually prefer it loads. It is not Travis anymore, however you’ll be able to nonetheless discover me in there. You may nonetheless discover me in all of the characters that I play. So I believe they’re going to like it. I believe it is price their time.
You’ll want to tune in to CBS on Tuesday, December 10 at 9 p.m. ET to catch Jay Hayden’s debut as Agent Tyler Sales space on FBI: Worldwide. As all the time, Worldwide airs between FBI at 8 p.m. ET and FBI: Most Wished at 10 p.m. ET. Hayden will recur for a number of episodes of the fourth season, so you will not need to miss his arrival. When you choose streaming to tuning in dwell, although, you can watch “Eager as a Bean” streaming through Paramount+ as nicely.