CSI: Miami's latest recruit, Jonathan Togo (Ryan Wolfe), recently said joining the series was like being a "foreign exchange student".

"You're part of the family but you're new," Togo explained to Jewsweek's Gerri Miller. "So I was a little nervous but all the fears that I had were allayed. Everyone has been beyond supportive." Having joined the series earlier this season as a replacement for Rory Cochrane (Tim Speedle), Togo said he deserves "zero credit" for CSI: Miami's success thus far, but said he feels "extremely lucky" to have landed a steady gig on any television show.

"The odds are so against you. They make like 50 pilots. Of the 50 there are parts for you in 20, and of those 20 there are 1000 guys auditioning for those 20 parts and 10 of them go to names, and of those pilots five go to air and one survives past the first year. So to get on a show as good and as successful as CSI: Miami, to be part of the franchise, is astonishing."

Togo said he has bonded well with the other cast members, joining Emily Procter (Calleigh Duquesne) when she goes running and participating in a rowing class run by her boyfriend. But some of the more gruesome on-screen tasks he's expected to perform as a rookie CSI have posed a challenge for the actor, who said that dissecting a frog back in his school days made him nauseous. Togo is also scheduled to accompany homicide detectives on their rounds to get a feel for the crime solving business. "Now that I'm faced with it, the idea of actually seeing a dead body is daunting," he said.

The complete interview with Togo, in which he also talked about music and his college days, can be found at Jewsweek.

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