Here's what attracted Lee Thompson Young to Detective Frost on Rizzoli & Isles

Nowadays, there are so many detective shows that the characters are starting to blend together. Nothing stands out about them; writers all follow the same mold: a detective who is either grumpy and rude, good-looking and always asked out on dates, or unable to set boundaries and lacking a good work-life balance.

In Rizzoli & Isles, Lee Thompson Young's detective character, Barry Frost, was different. Though it was part of his job, being around dead bodies was something he did not enjoy. In a 2011 Fox News interview, the actor explained how that drew him to the role.

"He has a conflict, a deep internal conflict, in that he's a homicide detective, he deals with dead bodies all the time, but when he sees a corpse, he throws up. It was a funny story. I was playing an FBI agent on a show called FlashForward on ABC. I had so much fun, and my character actually died on the show, you know, I was out after seven episodes. And right before I was done with my run on the show, I was working with John Cho in the morgue, and he said to me, 'These scenes can be so dry and so stale. It's like everybody seen it all before.' And he was like, 'Wouldn't it be interesting to do something different, like let's say your character even got sick or something when you see the body,' and this was like two weeks before I get the audition for Rizzoli & Isles."

He continued, "So I read the script, and I got really, really excited about it because it is interesting and it's different. He's vulnerable, but he's also a good detective. But I didn't tell John about it, it was a little too weird and too much of a coincidence, and then I finally got the role, and I called him and told him he was psychic."