LOS ANGELES () - Stage and screen principal Laurence Fishburne's last turn as a series regular on network television was the theatrical role of Cowboy Curtis on the 1980s kids demonstrate "Pee-wee's Playhouse."
So the acclaimed actor better known for playing dark, brooding characters says he looks forward to his unexampled TV gig as a forensics research worker with distressing tendencies on the remove CBS detective drama "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation."
Not that he had of all time seen the series earlier his first meeting with the show's executive producers, Carol Mendelsohn and Naren Shankar.
"I felt a little unintelligent and abashed that I hadn't watched the show prior to having a meeting with them," Fishburne, 47, acknowledged in a conference call with reporters for the announcement that he is joining the show's contrive.
"But I'm happy to say that the episodes that they sent me to look at were actually, really piquant and in truth wonderful, and kind of dark and moody, wish a lot of the work that I've actually been involved in," he added. "So I'm very excited."
Famed for his pic work as Morpheus in "The Matrix" trilogy and his Oscar-nominated role as Ike Turner in "What's Love Got to Do With It," Fishburne is slated to make his "CSI" debut in episode nine of the show's upcoming one-ninth season.
"CSI," which averaged 17 million viewers last season, ranks as CBS's top-rated show and the third gear most-watched scripted series in all of U.S. premier time.
Mendelsohn and Shankar hailed Fishburne as their "dream" casting option.�
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