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"With the 11th season of CSI currently airing in the US and the show&amp;#039;s 10th run just out on DVD in the UK, we decided to catch up with series star George Eads (the impossibly square-jawed Nick Stokes) to chat about the CBS drama&amp;#039;s past, present and future, and his character&amp;#039;s recent emotional trauma. We also got the inside scoop on this Thursday&amp;#039;s episode, which sees pop idol Justin Bieber make his second appearance as troublesome teen Jason McCann. Just a quick word of warning - a few spoilers lurk below! Have you enjoyed playing Nick&amp;#039;s most recent storyline? He seemed to almost have a mental breakdown. &amp;quot;Yeah, and I want to continue that. It makes sense that this job would wear down on these guys and I&amp;#039;ve tried to have a few moments where Nick has these emotional asides with the audience.&amp;quot; Is it a challenge playing Nick, since he tends to get quite emotionally involved with a lot of his cases? &amp;quot;Yeah, it can be challenging. But, I mean, these guys [who work as CSI&amp;#039;s] cannot see death every day like they do, and not have it affect them. So I enjoy the fact that Nick gets emotionally involved.&amp;quot; What&amp;#039;s coming up for Nick later this season? &amp;quot;He&amp;#039;s pretty much going to get sick of people attacking him for just doing his job. Nick doesn&amp;#039;t get upset by this, he gets mad! It&amp;#039;s like, &amp;#039;How dare you attack me when I&amp;#039;m just doing my job, protecting people?!&amp;#039;.&amp;quot; Nick&amp;#039;s known as a bit of a ladies man, so is there any chance he&amp;#039;ll get a love interest any time soon? &amp;quot;I get that question a lot. Everyone always says that Nick&amp;#039;s known as a ladies man, but we never see him with any women! Except we saw him with a prostitute! I think if they were to do that, it would have to work organically with the episode or the season when we were doing it. I wouldn&amp;#039;t want to just put it in there for no reason. It would have to be organic.&amp;quot; How has it been working with Justin Bieber this season? It&amp;#039;s been great. He&amp;#039;s got his film coming out [Never Say Never] I think in March, but when I originally worked with him, I didn&amp;#039;t realise what a child prodigy he is! When we were shooting that first episode, I didn&amp;#039;t think of him as a musician, I just thought of him as an actor. He was great to work with and just a really sweet, down-to-earth kid.&amp;quot;  What can you tell us about Justin&amp;#039;s return to the show in Thursday&amp;#039;s episode? &amp;quot;Well, he&amp;#039;s cast as this troubled teen, which is ironic, because it&amp;#039;s kind of the opposite of what everybody knows him as. But he&amp;#039;s back, causing trouble, and we have a face-off. Unfortunately for him, I&amp;#039;m the series regular!&amp;quot; How has it been working with Laurence Fishburne, who has been a regular on the show for over a season now? &amp;quot;Yeah, I&amp;#039;ve been working with Laurence Fishburne for almost two years now. It&amp;#039;s great for me to work with him because he is one of my acting heroes and he&amp;#039;s one of the reasons I got into the business. It&amp;#039;s like a musician getting to go up on the stage with Joe Satriani! When Laurence first started, I told him I was a little bit scared of him, because the characters he plays are always intimidating! But he&amp;#039;s a really generous actor and a really nice guy. I&amp;#039;ve learnt a lot from him.&amp;quot; Having played Nick for over a decade, do you have much input into where your character goes? &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;ve always had input, pretty much from season two onwards. But even more since Billy [Peterson] left, the producers want to hear where we see our characters going. We&amp;#039;re at the stage now where I can call them up if I have ideas about dialogue or something I&amp;#039;d like to change, and they&amp;#039;re not going to shout down the phone at me!&amp;quot; Now that CSI is in its 11th season, what do you think has kept the show fresh for so long? &amp;quot;I think it&amp;#039;s the actors who still enjoy getting up and going to work on the show. The show has such a loyal audience in the US, not to mention internationally. We have a huge audience internationally. That support makes it easy to get up and go to work every morning!&amp;quot; The 11th season of CSI continues on Thursdays at 9/8c on CBS. CSI: The Complete Season 10 is currently available to buy on DVD. Are you a loyal CSI follower? Excited about the Bieb&amp;#039;s return? Sound off below! "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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