"I went to Japan recently because the show does pretty well.  I got off the plane, and had just flown 12 hours and had heard that there might be some people at the airport—some fans—and I got out, and I felt so stupid because I saw a sea of rabid fans and I was like, ‘oh, I’m such a fool, assuming they are for me,’ and you know, I’m so out of it and I just realized Justin Bieber is probably on the plane behind me coming in from LA and then I slowly realized they were all fans of the show.  I had never seen so many. . it’s something about Japan’s culture maybe that when they get into something, they get into it in a very big way.  I’m not even exaggerating.  There were about 300 or 400 of the nicest, most polite, screaming Japanese fans.  It was a surreal moment.  It was so funny because that’s so not a typical America reaction.  They painted me dinosaur drawings that I had done and threw me socks and I felt like I was in an alternate universe.  It’s interesting, because someone explained to me that in Japan they are huge fans of effeminate, non-threatening white males in Japan, for whatever reason, are very well-loved, and the character I play is like the Elvis Presley of Japan."


~ Matthew Gray Gubler on his trip to Japan to promote Criminal Minds.

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