Jesse L. Martin became an integral part of the procedural and legal drama television series after starring in it for over a decade. Admittedly, he has no official project lined up prior to his departure from the longtime running show. When asked about future theater projects in mind, he further told Entertainment Weekly, “Not particularly, no. At least not any project that I can sort of announce publicly. But the whole idea is just to get back into that. Because I’m an actor. I wanna stay an actor. Not that you can’t do that on TV, but I wanna get on stage.”
Despite leaving “Law & Order” to pursue theater, he eventually came back to the small screen a year later. He made a return to NBC as a co-star in “The Philanthropist” in 2009, but the show only aired for one season. It was only in 2014 that he landed another prominent acting gig as he joined the modern reimagining of the DC Comics superhero “The Flash.”
Talking about his decision to take on the role of Joe West in the series, he told Collider, “I have a good friend, Michael Capone, who has always been our resident comic book nerd. When I told him that I was meeting with Andrew Kreisberg and Greg Berlanti about playing Detective Joe West on ‘The Flash,’ he was like, ‘If you don’t take this job, I promise you, I will kill you.'”
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