We had the pleasure of speaking with Jeff Goldblum from Law and Order: Criminal Intent about the changing cast of characters on the new season, how he approaches his characters, and how he felt about the rumors that he was dead!

I was wondering what continues to challenge you about your role?

Jeff Goldblum: Well, let me see, it's very challenging because the writing is wonderful and the people around me are the best in the world. So I'm just trying to live up to that and to make the most out of what are wonderful scripts and wonderful acting opportunity it is. Plus, my character is always kind of evolving, and it's challenging to try to do my best with it.

Social media has become a big part of promotion for TV shows and for movies. How does it play a part in your life and with your show coming on ...?

Jeff Goldblum: Well, Andrea and Farrah could tell you better how it plays a part in the show. Sorry, I know nothing about that. They can tell you. This is the first time - I've been doing it since last year in this kind of way. But I'm sure they're doing much, much more, and they can tell you all about that because I don't really - I'm so busy, consumed with making the show right now I'm not really staying up to speed on all manner of and forms of marketing that they're doing.

You don't have your own account?

Jeff Goldblum: I do not. No.

You have a new partner who is going to be challenging. She's clearly as intelligent as Nichols and she has a fairly wide ranging network of contacts. And it's totally different skill set. How do you see them working together?

Jeff Goldblum: Well, I now know. We've done several cases together. And we work beautifully together, very dynamically. I think she's great. You're right. She is brilliant and has her own skill set and we just work very creatively together. And it's, as much as anything, even given the dark and horrific and nightmarish circumstances that we're always faced with, dead bodies and gruesome places and gruesome events, we seem to both get a thrill out of the fun and the adventure of the hunt, hunting down the bad guy.

And then, of course, I sort of - we get enrolled together and she gets enrolled in my by and by, in my other peck agenda, which is not so beside the point, which is, of course, finding out what the whole story was and why, criminal intent of course, that's why it's named that. Why, psychologically speaking, has the person done it? Not only who did it, but why they did it. And like I said, and I say it's not beside the point because when we finally take it to court, that's very much the point. Part of it you got to tell a jury hey, here's the - we're not going to get a conviction unless they can buy and believe the whole story and the motive and why this person might have done it.

But it's beside that, a personal thrill for me. And a personal kind of side and overall contextualizing investigation to deepen my understanding of the deeply criminal types and thereby all of us and me. I'm on a kind of psycho spiritual investigation that fascinates me and that's infinitely mysterious. And she and I become partners in that. And it's absolutely thrilling.