CBS has an excellent factor happening Tuesday nights with the three FBI reveals, and FBI: Worldwide ended the 2024 TV schedule on probably the most intense cliffhanger. Probably the most quick concern after the autumn finale regards whether or not Vo will survive being shot into the 2025 TV schedule, however Wes and Tyler seemingly gearing as much as avenge her does not bode effectively for them within the new 12 months. Whereas we are able to solely speculate about what they’re going to truly do after their cliffhanger, new solid member Jay Hayden’s deep dive on his longtime real-life friendship with Jesse Lee Soffer goes approach again.
It was no secret forward of Hayden’s debut as Agent Tyler Sales space that he and Soffer had been pals effectively earlier than he landed his position on FBI: Worldwide, not too lengthy after Station 19 ended on ABC. The Chicago P.D. alum previewed “some baggage” between Tyler and Wes all the best way again in an October interview with CinemaBlend, hyping attending to work together with his real-life “actually shut buddy.”
Effectively, it stays to be seen simply how shut Wes and Tyler shall be within the winter premiere and past, however after I spoke with Jay Hayden about his arrival in CBS’ FBI world, I found that the friendship with Jesse Lee Soffer goes approach additional again than I knew. Once I requested what it was like for him to work with any person who was a buddy earlier than he was a co-star, Hayden replied:
We had been laughing as a result of we have been pals for 16 years or so, perhaps extra, and we completed our first scene collectively and I am going, ‘I feel I simply checked out you within the eyes greater than we have checked out one another for all 15 years of understanding one another.’ [laughs] He is like, ‘Yeah, I did not prefer it.’ And I used to be like, ‘Yeah, me neither.’ But it surely’s superior. I imply, who will get to actually do this?
Characters gazing into one another’s eyes is a traditional on the small display screen, and each Jay Hayden and Jesse Lee Soffer did loads of it of their respective Station 19 and Chicago P.D. days. Who knew that they’d be locking eyes shortly into their time collectively on FBI: Worldwide? After laughing about that interplay, Hayden went on:
There’s not lots of people who get to truly work with an in depth, private buddy, and it is enjoyable as a result of he is such an superior actor and actually takes care of the story and appears out for the integrity of the present. Appearing with him, it is so enjoyable. We’re having enjoyable on set, a whole lot of laughs and messing round, after which we get actually critical and get to get into character and carve out these scenes collectively. It was such a pleasure, such a pleasure.
It is not stunning to be taught that Hayden and Soffer had some laughs behind the scenes after how the Fly Workforce newcomer recounted his surprisingly foolish scene with Wes from his first episode. The 2 actors needed to be pulled again after their golf scene “simply became a celebration.”
What was stunning – to me, at the very least – was listening to from Hayden that he and Soffer had recognized one another for practically twenty years. I might imagined that they’d met extra just lately as the celebrities of two profitable community TV reveals. Once I famous that their friendship went again to pre-Station 19 and pre-Chicago P.D. days, he recalled:
Oh, yeah, approach again! I imply, we had been simply younger guys in appearing class being like, ‘Sometime we’re gonna make it on this city.’ I keep in mind, we had been each so poor. We had been like, ‘Okay, we won’t afford to get audition teaching from this appearing faculty for all of our auditions, so we will make a pact. We’ll run our auditions with one another, it doesn’t matter what, on a regular basis, till we make it.’ And we did. We actually ran each audition. I keep in mind working his Mob Physician audition with him, and that present’s a deep minimize.
I do not need to say that future TV stars Jesse Lee Soffer and Jay Hayden training auditions collectively parallels how future film stars Robert Pattinson, Eddie Redmayne, Andrew Garfield, Charlie Cox, and Jamie Dornan all lived collectively earlier than making it large, however that is definitely the place my thoughts went! Hayden and Soffer had no approach of understanding 15 years in the past that not solely would they star in their very own community TV hits, however would additionally be a part of forces one other one other profitable collection.
Plus, Mob Physician definitely is a deep minimize, as Jesse Lee Soffer was a part of the solid of that short-lived collection from 2012-2013, and it is potential that he by no means would have joined One Chicago full time if that Fox drama had taken off. Chicago P.D. premiered in early 2014, after Soffer made some earlier appearances on Chicago Fireplace.
As for the way lengthy we are able to anticipate to see Wes and Tyler collectively on FBI: Worldwide, Hayden confirmed after his first episode that he’d be round for “a bunch of episodes” and “Perhaps I am going to swing again by way of.” A collection of pictures that he posted to hype his arrival showcased a few of that real-life friendship, as you possibly can see beneath:
For higher or worse, we’ll be taught the fallout of no matter Wes and Tyler resolve following that fall finale cliffhanger when FBI: Worldwide returns in 2025 on Tuesday, January 27 at 9 p.m. ET on CBS. When you’ll want a refresher on how the present wrapped 2024, you could find the episode streaming with a Paramount+ subscription. As all the time, Worldwide airs between FBI (which misplaced a serious solid member in 2024) at 8 p.m. ET and Most Needed at 10 p.m. ET.