Mark Harmon’s Leroy Jethro Gibbs and Muse Watson’s Mike Franks spent a good period of time collectively on NCIS, with Franks even persevering with to seem to Gibbs as a ghost after he was killed in Season 8’s “Swan Music” stretching into Season 15. Now, because of NCIS: Origins, we get to see how these two shaped their distinctive relationship within the early ‘90s. Kyle Schmid performs the youthful Franks on this prequel airing week to week on the 2025 TV schedule, and whereas talking with CinemaBlend, he tell us what he enjoys most about working with co-star Austin Stowell, who performs the youthful Gibbs.
After Schmid mentioned subjects like what it was like taking part in Franks in 1982-set flashbacks, the devastating blow that was dealt to the character’s relationship with Tish, and the large a part of Franks’ life he needs Origins to discover, I concluded my latest interview with him by asking what his favourite half is about working with Stowell. He answered:
Austin commits. I like working with Austin as a result of he commits. He and I are very comparable in the best way that we method the work. After we’re in it, we’re in it. So it isn’t Kyle’s working with Austin. It is Mike Franks and Gibbs simply speaking, and Austin and I very a lot have that relationship out and in of character. I feel there is a love for each other that’s simply straightforward and that interprets on digital camera.
It’s good to listen to Kyle Schmid and Austin Stowell get alongside so splendidly each on and off digital camera. Contemplating that a lot of NCIS: Origins (which will be accessed with a Paramount+ subscription) revolves round Mike Franks mentoring Leroy Jethro Gibbs within the methods of an NIS agent, it’s vital the actors nailed the proper of dynamic between their characters. As a result of they each work the identical manner, evidently that was straightforward sufficient to drag off. Schmid continued:
So after we do get to work collectively, regardless of regardless of the the context of the scene is, it’s simply straightforward, and it feels pure, it feels good. It’s good when you possibly can let the characters breathe with each other and it simply makes the work simpler working with any individual who will get it such as you do.
Whereas we’re nonetheless an extended methods off from Gibbs and Franks reaching the identical sort of equal footing that they had on NCIS, these two have already been via rather a lot collectively in lower than a yr. It began when Franks was tasked with investigating the demise of Gibbs’ spouse and daughter, and this led to him letting Gibbs take a look at all the data he’d collected on their assassin, drug supplier Pedro Hernandez. Franks additionally personally recruited Gibbs onto his workforce after he grew to become an NIS agent, and he’s additionally one of many few folks at this level within the NCIS timeline who is aware of Gibbs killed Hernandez. Simply think about what’s going to occur throughout their second yr collectively on Origins.
I’ll be crossing my fingers that NCIS: Origins Season 2 occurs, If solely so Kyle Schmid and Austin Stowell can proceed performing with one another. There are 5 episodes left to on in Season 1’s run, so tune in Mondays at 10 pm ET on CBS.