Tony and Ziva are collectively once more! And what higher option to (seize your) gear up for the NCIS spinoff premiering in September on Paramount+ than to see Michael Weatherly and Cote de Pablo collectively once more?
The celebs and government producers, together with showrunner John McNamara, have been available at San Diego Comedian-Con 2025 to advertise the brand new collection, and the three of them stopped by TV Insider and TV Information Journal’s studio to speak all issues NCIS: Tony & Ziva and pose for some pictures.
Seeing how a lot enjoyable Weatherly and de Pablo have collectively exhibits us simply why we would have liked this new collection — it’s been over a decade since they’ve shared the display! Cote de Pablo left NCIS in its eleventh season, with Weatherly following in its thirteenth, and whereas each have been again, they’ve by no means returned on the similar time. They shared with TV Insider in June 2024 that they checked in with one another about these reprisals.
“Michael and I talked about my return in 2019, and I keep in mind calling as a result of we already had the thought of Tony and Ziva and [playing these characters again],” de Pablo mentioned. “And I mentioned, ‘Do you suppose this might get in the way in which?’ And he mentioned, ‘No, this might not get in the way in which.’ And so in a manner, I received a inexperienced mild from him.”
Then, when it was Weatherly’s flip, for the episode paying tribute to the late David McCallum, “He mentioned, ‘I actually need to return.’ And I mentioned, ‘Effectively, in the event you return, I’m not going to return as a result of we will’t each be again as a result of then it will get in the way in which of the spinoff,’” she recalled. “So I mentioned, ‘I do know that you simply had a really particular relationship with McCallum, and I believe in the event you actually need to do it, you need to go, which implies I’ve to sit down this one out.’ So we’ve labored from the get-go for a few years as a partnership, which implies at occasions we’ve to open up to one another and kind of ask permission to do issues with a view to enable the opposite one to sit down down or for issues to not get in the way in which of the ultimate goal, which is absolutely to make this present and to provide the viewers the factor of shock on that present.”
Scroll down to take a look at the portraits of Michael Weatherly, Cote de Pablo, and John McNamara.
NCIS: Tony & Ziva, Sequence Premiere, Thursday, September 4, Paramount+