Jesse Lee Soffer Talks ‘FBI: Worldwide’ Season 4 Premiere

Former Chicago P.D. star Jesse Lee Soffer is zooming into a brand new chapter in his profession, starring as Supervisory Particular Agent Wesley “Wes” Mitchell in Season 4 of CBS‘ FBI: Worldwide, which premieres on October 15. Within the clip above, we now have your unique first take a look at the action-packed occasions that ultimately take Wes on a visit overseas.

In “A Chief, Not A Vacationer,” Wes will get caught up in an epic automobile chase following a mysterious crew inflicting chaos in Los Angeles. However when his associate is shot and the suspects flee to Budapest, Wes is scorching on their path with a little bit help from the Fly Crew. Oh, and for anybody questioning, Soffer is doing “most” of his personal stunts. “Yeah, my knees are aching,” he joked throughout a current interview with Deadline.

The brand new gig heralded an enormous reunion between the quick and livid driver and Chicago P.D. co-creator Matt Olmstead, who writes and govt produces on FBI: Worldwide.

“There’s a lot motion, the primary episode is nice,” he teased. “When Matt and I first began speaking about doing this, we mentioned who this character was going to be. I really like Matt’s writing, which was one of many largest attracts for me to do that. He delivered; that first episode was a lot enjoyable and it felt like a pilot.”

He continued, “Once you meet Wes, he’s on this sophisticated relationship and he’s clearly married to his work. You’ll see his girlfriend throwing out his shit as a result of she thinks he’s dishonest however he’s not. He’s only a laborious employee however they get into this struggle, and that’s how the episode begins. When he goes off afterward along with his associate, who’s an in depth buddy, they become involved in a taking pictures once they’re chasing this theft crew. However when his associate will get shot, Wes turns into a person on fireplace and chases these guys to Budapest. He reconnects with Cameron Vo (Vinessa Vidotto) there, with whom he has this entire backstory…The episode is full of a variety of characters, backstories and a variety of motion. It’s an amazing start line for this new season of FBI: Worldwide and this new power.”

The “new power” arrives following the exit of Luke Kleintank, who led the collection as Scott Forrester throughout the present’s first three seasons. Forrester made his ultimate look in episode 11 on Could 7 and his character was written off within the finale of Season 3 as having gone on the run along with his mom with the pair heading to Alaska. Within the ultimate beats of the finale, the Fly Crew totally welcomes Tank (Inexperienced) into the fold and is adopted by Raines (Carter Redwood). Does that imply he might be returning for a meet-and-greet with Wes?

“Wes meets Tank and Tank indicators off on Wes,” Soffer confirms. “All the things is cool so hopefully that will get me some avenue cred with the followers. Belief me, I do know Tank is the star of the present. We had a very cozy, cuddly scene within the second episode, so hopefully that will likely be a deal with for the followers.”

Along with the beloved black Big Schnauzer, Soffer can even be joined on the present by his good friend and Station 19 star Jay Hayden, who will painting Agent Tyler Sales space in episodes to air later within the season, as we reported in September.

“You don’t have any concept how thrilling it’s. It’s so cool,” he stated of working with Hayden. “Jay is one among my finest pals for over 15 years. We studied appearing collectively, we taught collectively. We used to educate one another on auditions. We had been each on TV on the identical time, however I used to be in Chicago and he was in Los Angeles, so we frolicked throughout hiatuses. It’s a dream come true that we get to work collectively on the identical present. I hope the followers like our dynamic.”

Soffer additional teased that Wes and Tyler “have a very cool backstory” and “have been by some shit collectively.”

He continued, “Wes marches to the beat of his personal drum and doesn’t all the time do issues the proper means. He doesn’t go by process and is extra like, ‘Yeah, we’re gonna get it achieved and we are going to work out if there’s an answer someplace.’ Jay’s character Tyler is even worse than that. He’s like, ‘We’ll do the fallacious factor to get it achieved…’ For Wes, Tyler is his unhealthy angel and Smitty [Eva-Jane Willis] is the nice angel as a result of he’s someplace within the center.”

With Wes and Soffer’s Chicago P.D. character Jay Halstead each being legislation enforcement professionals within the Dick Wolf Universe, it was inevitable that each had been current in Soffer’s thoughts when he was taking pictures.

“[Playing Wes], was each straightforward and laborious on the identical time. It’s tough as a result of they’re each cops, so their conditions, their procedures and their traces of dialog and [using technical terms] like, placing out a BOLO or giving an outline of someone, all these cop ideas are the identical,” Soffer stated. “The simple half is that Halsted had a lot baggage on the finish of P.D. and had been put by the wringer and was such a brooding, darkish character. However Wes is sort of a breath of recent air; he’s a lot lighter, carefree, and form of unaffected. I’ve joked a few instances that they do maintain the gun the identical means.”

Seeing Soffer with a brand new love curiosity on FBI: Worldwide caught me a little bit off guard as a long-time Chicago P.D. watcher who half anticipated Haley (Tracy Spiridakos) to seem—no disrespect to the actress who performs his love curiosity within the collection. Hey, it’s an Upstead factor and Haley did depart P.D. for a job with the FBI. Though Soffer shouldn’t be taking part in Halstead anymore, it might be a recent begin for each Haley and Wes.

“Hypothetically, she exists on this universe,” Soffer stated of Haley. “And if she ever confirmed up in Budapest, Wes can be like, ‘Do I do know you?’”

He added, “Hey, you by no means know.”