Luke Kleintank Talks FBI International And Upcoming Baby Plans

"FBI: International" deals with a lot of real-world and current issues in the episodes. What do you think about the way the show has handled those topics?

It's a mixture of things. Because we are a TV series, some of the things that we speak about are truthful, and some of the things we take a lot of liberties. Certain things ... there are certain cases that cannot be solved in a day or two days. They take years, but I know from the writer's perspective, they take a lot of their stories from factual stories, and we try to condense them because we do a 22-episode format. We try to condense them so that it's in one episode and try to make them as relevant as possible.

It's tough because [it would be great] if we could spend 22 episodes on one case, but it's not the format of the show. We do take our liberties in the sense of certain things that the FBI does and how they operate, but we try and stick to as much as we can without the suspension of disbelief as well.

How would you say working on this series has compared to other crime shows you've been on, like "Law & Order" and "CSI?"

When I did "Law & Order SVU," I was a co-star on that show. I felt I was scared s***less, and it was my first job ... I grew up in the theater background, ao I didn't know how anything worked. That was a whole different experience for me. "CSI" was similar. You come onto a new show that's been there for so many years, and you feel like you're the new person on the show, and it's nerve-wracking. On some shows, you have actors that are very welcoming, or the lead stars are very welcoming. That's something that I learned at a very young age, is to welcome everybody that's new, that's coming in, because I know how that feels ... It's hard coming into something that feels bigger than you.