From 2003, Mark Harmon played Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs in NCIS until his departure three years ago. With the leading role, he also became one of the highest paid TV stars ever. The actor also kept one thing to the end: He never wanted to know anything about the development of his character in advance. There was a special reason for this.
Mark Harmon always wanted to play Gibbs in NCIS with an open mind
Back in 2009, the star spoke to TV Fanatic about how he never wanted to know in which direction Gibbs would develop in NCIS:
I never asked for it. For me it is like loading it back. It may be like like trying to work backwards. I don’t know, I’ve never done that here before. I certainly don’t know how they would react. But I really don’t want to know.
For Harmon, knowing his character’s future in advance would not have been helpful, so he would have had to play Gibbs with foreknowledge and, in his view, sometimes go back to a certain point from which the character might have already moved away.
When will the 21st season of NCIS come to Germany?
The 21st season of NCIS has been broadcast in the USA since this year. A German broadcast date has not yet been set. The new episodes could start here in summer 2024. You can already stream the 20th season in its entirety in Germany.
Podcast: Was NCIS destroyed by a dog bite?
Seven years ago, a scandal rocked the crime series NCIS: the lead actor’s dog bit a crew member. A mudslinging match that lasted for years began.
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The incident set off a chain of events that resulted in one of the most important stars leaving the series. In the podcast, we explain exactly what happened between the bite and the exit.