Langham: We Are Worlds Apart

Life doesn't always imitate art.

Wallace Langham first appeared on CSI: Crime Scene Investigation in the season three episode "Recipe for Murder". He has since become a regular cast member and now appears in the opening credits for the show. "I like that he's endowed with bizarre affectations and genetic predispositions," Langham told Inquirer.net of his character, lab tech David Hodges. He went on to say, "I hate that he still lives with his mother."

Langham spoke about the relationship between his character and Gil Grissom (William Petersen). "Basically, it's hero worship," he explained. "Hodges thinks Grissom is the smartest man he knows and that they're on the same level. Hodges also feels he's unappreciated. He's wrong on both counts—they're not on the same level and he's not unappreciated." But will Hodges make the move from the lab to the field and become a CSI? "I doubt it," Langham said. "Hodges likes the lab's safety and cleanliness. In an episode at the end of season 8 ("The Theory of Everything"), he had to do field work and he wasn't so happy about that."

"I think that is high time that Hodges and Simms get together. It has been a few seasons that they have been throwing hints at each other," Langham told The New Straits Times, referring to his character's flirtation with fellow lab tech Wendy Simms (Liz Vassey). He went on to say, "It will take time to develop the relationship and I hope that the producers would take the chance in bringing both of them together."

In real life, Langham admitted that he has little in common with his fictional counterpart. "We are worlds apart," he explained. "I am nothing like Hodges. He is inquisitive and always on the go. Hodges will have a million things to say and he loves challenging people." In contrast, Langham himself is "an ordinary person who lives a rather boring life. The only upper hand that I have in comparison to Hodges is that I am happily married with kids and he is not."

The original articles can be found at Inquirer.net and The New Straits Times Online.

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