As NCIS actor Michael Weatherly recently revealed, he and co-star Sean Murray had a lot of fun on the set of NCIS. Apparently the two were playing each other Pranks with a high disgust factor. If you read it, you’ll probably no longer be able to take old episodes of the series with the two of them seriously.
High disgust factor: This is what Michael Weatherly and Sean Murray did to each other on the NCIS set
Michael Weatherly and colleague Cote De Pablo have been appearing on the Off Duty: An NCIS Rewatch Podcast since May, in which they look back on their time together on the crime series. Michael “Tony DiNozzo” Weatherly went into great detail in the summer about his joke with his fellow actor and Tim McGee actor Sean Murray, as reported by Cinemablend. He used energy bars for this:
So Clif Bars are these granola and oatmeal-like things, and when you’ve got them warm you can shape them into anything, very poop-like. So I took two of them and kind of flattened them, and then I put them in Sean Murray’s toilet in his trailer.
And his plan worked:
Then I went outside and Sean came running out of the car and said, ‘I have to go to the bathroom!’ As I did, I knew he was going to open his trailer to pee and pee on those two cliff bars in the toilet.What happened next was this:And then I was waiting outside and heard ‘Oh!’ And that meant someone had gone into your trailer and had left behind a large business. So Sean comes out and I just walk by.
This is how Sean Murray reacted to his NCIS colleague’s prank
Apparently Sean Murray managed to in classic NCIS style, to find the culprit for this merciless act – and his revenge followed promptly.
Shortly afterwards, Michael Weatherly was confronted with a strange smell in his caravan:
And I thought, ‘What? Someone had diarrhea in my trailer! He didn’t even flush it!’ So I went out and called for an assistant. I said, ‘Someone has…’ And then I went back in and looked around and someone had taken a boiled egg yolk and this smell of sulfur that had filled the hole.
Conversely, it didn’t take Michael Weatherly long to find the culprit, who in turn had desecrated his trailer toilet:
And then I looked around, there’s chili and […] someone had made a mess. And then I left my trailer and went into the crew room and Sean said, ‘How’s it going, mate?’ And I said, ‘How are you, buddy? And he’s like, ‘Good, good morning, good morning, good morning, good morning [schaut auf die Papiere].’
Whether and to what extent this kind of kindness continued on set remained unclear in Michael Weatherly’s disclosure report. But history suggests that the two actors had a lot of fun behind the scenes on NCIS.
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This article first appeared in a similar form on Moviepilot in October 2024.