Warning: SPOILERS for the NCIS: Sydney episode “Hell Weak” are forward!
“Hell Weak,” the latest episode of NCIS: Sydney to air on the 2025 TV schedule, was a tough one for companions DeShawn Jackson and Evie Cooper. Along with viewers studying about how DeShawn dropped out of Navy SEAL coaching years again, he and Evie have been additionally hunted down by the episode’s unhealthy guys and solely barely made it out alive. This heart-racing portion of the episode, which could be streamed with a Paramount+ subscription, concerned DeShawn getting right into a brutal brawn and Evie pulling off a zipper line gun struggle. Actors Sean Sagar and Tuuli Narkle instructed CinemaBlend what it was like for them to shoot these intense scenes.
Sean Sagar’s Expertise Capturing His NCIS: Sydney Brawl
The actors opened up about their time engaged on “Hell Weak” to me forward of the episode’s airing, which additionally included them sharing how they hope these occasions on NCIS: Sydney will have an effect on their characters. So far as Sean Sagar goes, right here’s what he began off telling me concerning the struggle that was choreographed between him and actor Blessing Mokgohloa, who performed Petty Officer Axel ‘Axeman’ Beysdorf:
Nicely, one, I’ve to offer an enormous shout out to Blessing, who was my co-star, on this second. We had loads of rehearsals, the stunt workforce once more, who helped us put in numerous quantity of hours to get us to the place we [ended up]. However I actually could not have performed that with out Blessing’s unimaginable professionalism, athleticism. Like, it was loads to place ourselves via. We’d end filming, then go off for 2 hours doing stunts, come again, then lunch we’ll be doing stunts, come again.
Axeman and his cohort Petty Officer Sully ‘Scalpel’ Dunbar, performed by Daniel Widdowson, have been those who killed Peter Levinson, at a wellness retreat run by Finn McKay, who served as a Navy SEAL alongside the opposite three. DeShawn and Evie figured our the circumstances behind Levinson’s loss of life, and studying as such practically bought them killed on the spot. Nevertheless, Finn was capable of persuade Axeman and Scalpel to go along with the looking possibility to purchase the brokers a while.
Occasions unfolded to the place DeShawn and Axeman broke out the fisticuffs in opposition to one another when their weapons have been taken out of the equation. Sean Sagar had nothing however optimistic issues to say about working with Blessing Mokgohloa, which makes him account of by chance punching his co-star a bit of too onerous all of the funnier:
And simply to see it… there was a second once we have been truly doing it, and Blessing, he is a really properly constructed particular person. It was intimidating developing in opposition to him, and in my head, I used to be form of like, ‘Please, Blessing, don’t catch me with one among your punches as a result of it is in all probability gonna knock me out in the event you do.’ And it ended up being me that truly caught Blessing, and he was simply so stunning and understanding of the artwork that it. Simply made it among the best experiences for me up to now in my profession. I did put the work in, we each did, everybody did, and I simply actually hope that exhibits on digital camera now.
Axeman began to overpower DeShawn of their struggle, however Evie, who’d by no means shot one other particular person earlier than, introduced it to an finish when she fired a spherical into Axeman’s leg. That adopted Evie’s different bout of pleasure when she and DeShawn had briefly break up up.
Tuuli Narkle’s Expertise Capturing Her NCIS: Sydney Zip Line Gun Struggle
There have been zip line setups on the wellness retreat the place this hunt unfolded. When Evie and DeShawn separated, the previous used the zip line to distract Scalpel, utilizing the seven rounds within the .45 she’d been given as her sole technique of safety. Tuuli Narkle recalled the next to me after I inquired about this NCIS: Sydney second:
I’ve to additionally add that our unimaginable DOP had created these fantastic contraptions in order that I had cameras hooked up to my arms as I used to be swinging them on the zip line. We had cameras hooked up to helmets. It was unimaginable. And he’d performed all of it by hand, so I simply wish to give him a shout out. However there positively wasn’t loads of prep. I really feel like with a zipper line, you simply stand there and you then simply bought to commit, and I really feel like I did that. However that degree of trepidation and concern that was in Evie’s eyes as she went down that zip line, that was partly mine.
This mess all began as a result of Axeman and Scalpel discovered that Levinson had been talking to a reporter concerning the loss of life of a Navy SEAL trainee named Victor Austin 4 years earlier whereas going via Fundamental Underwater Demolition/SEAL coaching (BUD/S). It turned out that Axeman and Scalpel had been giving him and the opposite recruits steroids, and so they have been decided to by no means let their involvement come to gentle. However by the tip of “Hell Weak,” Scalpel was lifeless and Axeman was arrested, so it was one other week of the nice guys popping out victorious.
New episodes of NCIS: Sydney air Fridays at 8 pm ET on CBS stateside, and completely on Paramount+ in choose worldwide territories. There are simply 4 episode left to go in Season 2, with this Friday’s episodes shedding fairly a bit of sunshine on Mavournee Hazel’s Bluebird Gleeson. However followers needn’t fear, as Sydney will return for Season 3.