The actor talks about co-creating Penelope Garcia from the ground up for Criminal Minds.

" I was lucky enough to get brought back for the second episode because I tested well. People said. Oh we like when that girl talks so they brought me in for the second episode thinking. We'll just bring her in and then we'll bring somebody famous or better to play the part and I was lucky enough to have chemistry with Shemar which both of us were sort of like. "What's this is cool". And they started to copy how I dressed at the time to sort of inform her and I put my grandmother's candy dish on Penelope's desk. I started to say. "Could she say this instead of this we do this instead of this" and I would always learn it the way that the writer wrote it but then I would say could I you know so she was built from the ground up and because Criminal Minds is such a great collaborative place to work with so much respect for everybody"