Tony in a tux, Ziva in a marriage costume … what precisely is happening within the NCIS: Tony & Ziva sequence premiere?! Properly, Michael Weatherly, Cote de Pablo, and showrunner John McNamara stopped by TV Insider and TV Information Journal’s studio at San Diego Comedian-Con, and you recognize we needed to get the news, particularly after the trailer launched throughout their panel!
The sequence happened, McNamara says, “as a result of Michael wouldn’t cease bugging me. We each have a deep love of espionage, motion pictures, books, TV, and we’ve been pals for really 31 years, and there’s all the time been speak between seasons or once we’re each freed from like, ‘Let’s do a factor in Europe, would that be cool? A Hitchcock factor.’”
Then, Weatherly got here to him with the concept of a Tony and Ziva spinoff set in Europe. Getting de Pablo on board was, for the showrunner, “the largest hurdle as a result of I didn’t know her and he or she had no motive to belief me besides Michael’s like, ‘Yeah, belief him.’”
Whereas he had “a imprecise thought of eager to do one thing alongside the strains of North by Northwest,” it was de Pablo who stated, “I believe I do know what the primary scene is. … Michael’s in a tux, I’m in a marriage robe. We’re in a gorgeous church in Europe. He says, ‘You look beautiful,’ and I say, ‘Let’s simply get this over with.’ I stroll away.”
In response to de Pablo, “All I knew was that I had this form of visible factor. I’m undecided if it was a dream or possibly I used to be daydreaming… however it was a church. And I keep in mind accumulating all of those photos of lovely places, and I keep in mind considering it was on a cliff overlooking the water, and it was simply this superb type of a factor. And there’s a marriage costume, Michael is available in a tux, we’re form of operating from dangerous guys, however the viewers goes to search out us form of mid-mystery. Two individuals meet, they’re dressed. Are they getting married? Are they not? What’s happening? Are they collectively? Are they not? It’s very evident that in some way one thing’s off.” It was then as much as the writers’ room to determine what was happening.
For Tony in that scene, “I believe she is beautiful. He has all these emotions for her, however can he belief these senses?” asks Weatherly. “Can he belief that second? After which it seems, can the viewers belief that second? And as we journey down the rabbit holes of our present, for the viewers, it’s about belief. So we’re sharing in that.”
Watch the complete video interview above for way more from Michael Weatherly, Cote de Pablo, and John McNamara, together with a have a look at a particular pair of Tony & Ziva sneakers Weatherly was carrying, reuniting, and the way they make it by means of scenes with exposition — with a Helen Mirren shout-out!
NCIS: Tony & Ziva, Collection Premiere, Thursday, September 4 (three episodes), Paramount+
—Reporting by Kate Hahn