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Jeremy had nothing to worry about. Since then, he has appeared in countless films and TV shows, and has been nominated for Critics' Choice Awards (Suburgatory) and a Screen Actors Guild Award (Six Feet Under). "We used to live right here and come here with my two- year-old," says Jeremy as he points across the street. We are at Oscar's Place, a tiny French cafe in the West Village. He must be staying nearby as he arrived by scooter. He catches up with the owner, then orders his usual: a waffle. Much of Jeremy's time is spent on airplanes flying back and forth between Los Angeles —where his family and he have a home— and New York City, where CBS' FBI films. On FBI, Jeremy plays FBI Assistant Special Agent-in-Charge, Jubal Valentine, the man running the FBI command center. Dick Wolf's drama returned for a second season this fall. "We've gained a couple of players. We have a new SAC [Special Agent in Charge], which is our most superior agent in the office, Alana de la Garza, who I worked with on Law & Order. She's such a sweetheart, but she plays a character that is kinda tough. She plays it with a lot of nice layers. We have a new agent John Boyd, who is a great actor, brings a real comedic cynicism… We just have this level of connectivity between other agencies and between each other as agents. The actual FBI out here is a pretty impressive beast —it's got a really impressive reach." To prepare for this role, Jeremy worked closely with one of New York's FBI offices and got to see firsthand how the offices run and how much these agents love their jobs. "Ebonée Noel, who plays Kristen Chazal, her real-life boyfriend is an FBI agent, and I've become friends with the guy and the agent that my character is based on, so I hear from them sometimes about episodes," he tells me between bites of waffle. The writing is so good that one of the FBI agents told Jeremy that he was going to use his same speech on the show as the intro for his young agents. "I thought that was pretty cool… A big part of it is also just how to make the structure the strongest, the tightest —to be able to siphon hundreds of stories through, because that's the dream, to be able to have the show around for 10- 20 years and it be able to speak to the society at the time. Because society is always changing, so to have a show that can stick with culture over a decade or two is the key thing."