12:16pm Friday 5th February 2010
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Criminal Minds star Paget Brewster has revealed researching for the show has made her a bit paranoid.
The 40-year-old, who plays Special Agent Emily Prentiss in the crime drama about an elite team of FBI profilers who analyse America's most twisted criminal minds, revealed she has since installed "Pentagon-level" security at her house.
She said: "My boss gave me the FBI manuals, the text books that the students have to study about sexual homicide and serial killers and serial rapists, and there are photos in those books that you can never erase from your mind, that you really don't want in your mind."
She added: "So, I got bullet-proof glass on my entire house, on every window in my house that wasn't barred, and then I got Pentagon-level steel spikes that you can put above a window, below a window, on a gate, so that really nobody would want to break into my house, and now they couldn't even if they tried... because it was very scary, reading those books was really horrifying."
But the TV star - who appeared in Friends as Joey's girlfriend Kathy, who then fell for Chandler - loves the action scenes involved in Criminal Minds.
She said: "I think the writers have discovered my strengths and weaknesses as a human and incorporated them into the show and that's fun.
"I got to kick in a piece of glass on a door last week. I've wanted to do that my whole life, so they wrote that for me, and I get to be physical and kick in doors and shoot people, it's a lot of fun, fictionally."
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