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Post by nas on Oct 11, 2019 5:28:22 GMT
that was a nice interview...
I remember seeing the video when WV surprised his Mom with the house...
she was sooooo surprised, and her reaction was so funny that they had to bleep some of what she said when it was aired... 😂 and he was so excited about telling her it was “her house”...
very sweet moment actually...
nas
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Post by jessielee on Dec 18, 2019 13:06:15 GMT
NCIS: Ziva David Asks the Team for Help With One More Thing Before She Can Return to Her Family
Even though when we last saw Ziva (Cote de Pablo) in episode two of this season of NCIS, at which time she told Gibbs (Mark Harmon) that she had one thing left to do before she could go see Tony (Michael Weatherly) and Tali (Emelia/Layla Golfieri), and that she had to do it herself, that has turned out not to be the case, and she is back asking for help.
According to executive producers Frank Cardea and Steven D. Binder, Ziva has a good reason, a practical reason, that she hasn’t reached out to Tony and Tali, and when we learn the answer to that, we will understand why she walked away before Gibbs answered the phone call from Tony in her last episode.
Ziva’s return is being played out in real time, so it has been seven weeks since we last saw her, and what we do know is that why she is back is a continuation of what we have already seen.
“With the Ziva stories, we tried to not introduce anything new to be jeopardy of the month or jeopardy of the episode,” Binder says. “These things all tie back into what has been going on, using characters from her history.”
While it is great to have Ziva back in season 17, she’s not the same Ziva who left. Pretending to be dead has left its mark on her, plus, she was very hurt and angry at Gibbs when she came back because he didn’t look for her. She felt that since there wasn’t a body, he should have pursued it.
“I would say a couple things have happened,” Binder says. “One is she has become a parent, was forced to be an absentee parent, and even that aside, living the life that she lives, that’s not a life that you live with abandon. That life takes its toll and it catches up with you at some point. What we’re seeing now is her life catching up with her. If you’re a professional athlete, you’re running around, jumping through hoops, and boxing and then by the time you’re 50, you’ve got Parkinson’s or your knees don’t work.”
“None of our characters are the same as they were when she left,” adds Cardea. “Gibbs has gone through some changes also and her relationship with Gibbs is slightly different.”
The two people who knew that Ziva was only pretending to be dead were Adam Eshel (Damon Dayoub), who will be back for this episode, and Odette Malone (Elayn J. Taylor), who in an interesting twist, contacts Ellie Bishop (Emily Wickersham) for help.
“She isn’t contacting Bishop for unpaid utilities,” Binder adds. “She’s got her reasons and those reasons will be more apparent when we find out who she is exactly. It will inform, hopefully, the larger role Odette may play in some of our characters’ lives in terms of who she really is.”
“She is a lady of mystery,” Cardea says of Odette. “She is more than a landlady. We’ll say that.”
And, of course, Bishop feels a bond with Ziva so she does go find out what Odette needs from her.
“I would say Bishop possibly felt some sort of bond with her not really knowing her at all, but just by sitting at that desk and being the replacement puzzle piece,” Binder says. “If you step into someone else’s shoes, you can’t help but imagine some sort of relationship between the person who was there before and yourself. And once she got Ziva’s diaries, she could have read those diaries and gone the other way, which is, ‘Okay, no, there’s nothing here for me,’ but I think when she read those diaries, she felt even closer to Ziva.”
De Pablo has one episode left this season, which means Ziva is returning in the first episode back on January 7, so the midseason finale will be a cliffhanger.
“It’s my favorite kind of cliffhanger because, on one level, cliffhangers are annoying,” Binder says. “As an audience member, when the show ends, you’re like ‘argh,’ but for me, when I watch a show where they resolve just enough, but then just give me just enough for something else, those are fun cliffhangers and we tried to do that this time around.”
“Without giving away too much, in solving one problem, we may have created another,” Cardea adds. “And we’ll deal with the other, the ancillary problem, after the first of the year.”
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Post by llyan on Jan 14, 2020 22:03:07 GMT
NCIS Star Diona Reasonover on Who in the Cast May Surprise You and on Giving Back Through Urban Solutions JANUARY 14, 2020 – 10:05 AM – 0 COMMENTS
Paulette Cohn
It was art imitating life when Diona Reasonover was cast as Forensic Scientist Kasie Hines, taking over the position in the NCIS lab from Abby Scuitto (Pauley Perrette). They were both new at their jobs.
“I think people have realized that she is a different character,” Reasonover told Parade.com in this exclusive interview. “The writers and the producers did a really good job in the way they introduced Kasie. I, Diona, was nervous. So, giving me that natural feeling, which is that you’re here, you have a new job, and you want to impress people. It really allowed me to literally settle down as the character did.”
Kasie has become an important part of the team, and on tonight’s “Flight Plan” episode, when the NCIS team investigates an F-18 crash and the subsequent disappearance of the pilot who operated the aircraft, Kasie helps with the hunt.
“Kasie’s really going to have to use some of those forensics to literally locate where this person could be,” Reasonover says. “This is less of a who did it, because you know who did it; it’s more of a why done it.”
But she does urge viewers to tune in, especially to see McGee (Sean Murray) reluctantly discusses a very personal decision with his teammates.
“I can tell you that Sean is very, very funny in that episode” she says. “Seannie is always really funny, but he had me cracking up at the table read. So, I think that’s going to be very [fun for the] viewers. Listen to me trying not to spoil someone’s really great moment. If you trust me, watch it. If you don’t trust me, watch it anyway.”
When we first spoke, you were new to NCIS. What it’s like now that you have more than a years’ experience there?
It’s been really good. It’s been fun to let Kasie grow into her own, to let her nerves settle a little bit. You remember, she was real all over the place. She still has a tendency to ramble, but it’s not quite as nerve driven. Now it’s more bubbling over excitement, which we really like.
Last time we spoke, you mentioned that you weren’t a science person. Has being on the show in this particular job taught you something?
Most people are not science people and, if there’s one thing I pride myself on, it’s my humanity. So, no. I’m still not a science person. I appreciate it a lot. I think there are certain things that are fascinating and I can go down certain rabbit holes, but the reason I steadfastly and staunchly continue to say that I am not a science person is because I have so much respect for it that I am aware of the fact that I’m not in those leagues. I’m not at the majors, not sure that I’m at the minors yet either.
In November, there was that episode where we saw more of Kasie’s backstory, where her personal life crashed into her work life. Will there be more reveals like that for her coming up?
I really hope so. I think that, that’s a really interesting situation to put Kasie in because we haven’t seen much of her home life. So, I’m hoping that we get a chance to explore more of that. It was a really fun episode to do. David North, the writer, just really took it and really knocked it out of the park.
Who do you think among the cast is most like their character in real life?
Not Mark [Harmon]. Mark is actually very different than the way you think he’s going to be. You think he’s going to be like Gibbs, kind of rough and tumble, and he’s really a good natured, salt-of-the-earth guy. In some ways, I actually think Emily [Wickersham] might be like Bishop because she’s really sharp, really astute, just a good person that you want to be with, and absolutely fantastic at her job.
You were on Clipped before NCIS, but NCIS is this huge international show. It’s so much more far reaching. What’s been the takeaway for you personally from this? How has getting cast on the show affected you?
I think it made me much more aware of the reach that a stable person can have. This is not something I imagined. I didn’t picture myself being on such a huge, giant show. So, having people be like, “Oh, wow. I saw the Italian version of NCIS,” or like, “We watch it over here in Japan,” it’s really mindboggling. You just don’t imagine yourself having that kind of reach. Maybe some people do, but I did not.
Has it changed what you can do? Can you go out and have a nice quiet moment?
Unless I’m with my mom, there’s no where I can go to have a nice quiet moment with her. My mother is truly the biggest NCIS fan you’ve ever seen. She mentions it everywhere. If you go to the store with her, she’s like, “Oh yes, my daughter’s on NCIS.” She wears her NCIS hat everywhere. It’ a thing. I’m happy that she’s happy, but also I did not know that she was going to go online and order all the swag immediately.
Your family has a nonprofit called Urban Solutions Inc. You’re on the scholarship committee. Can you tell me a little bit about how that came about?
It came about in a pretty sad way, which was my grandfather was a business owner and he ended up hiring a young man who shot and killed him later during a botched robbery. I never had a chance to meet my grandfather. He died before I was born, but he was a big proponent for education and for allowing people to have a second chance if they had messed up the first chance, which is what had happened with this young man. He had been arrested and my grandfather hired him back even after his arrest. So, we wanted to take that tragedy and have his death be meaningful.
So, my aunt, Nancy Allen, started Urban Solutions to give people an opportunity, so they wouldn’t have to make those not great choices in the first place. Most people want the same thing in life, which is they want the ability to thrive, and if you don’t give them abilities to do so, then they’re going to make choices that ultimately are probably going to be pretty harmful, but a lot of time, it’s just making the best choices they can in the situation. We want to give them the opportunity to make better choices.
Is the scholarship committee just one aspect of the nonprofit?
Yes. The scholarship committee is just one aspect of it. They also have an education department that’s specifically targeted to educating seniors on HIV transmission, because for a while, senior citizens were one of the fasting growing groups of HIV and AIDS transmission. The reason, to be quite frank, is a lot of people don’t use protection when they know they can’t get pregnant.
Seniors are like, “Oh, I can’t get pregnant.” You can still transmit HIV, AIDS, multiple STDs and STIs, and in fact, it’s slightly easier to do so because your skin is thinner. You don’t have as much natural lubricant. So, it really was truly a problem. So, they did education in those areas.
Also, on the scholarship committee we were reaching seniors on all levels. Seniors of high school and senior citizens.
NCIS airs Tuesday nights at 8 p.m. ET/PT on CBS.
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Post by llyan on Apr 14, 2020 15:16:07 GMT
NCIS Producers on Why the Final Episode of Season 17 Addresses Sacrifices Not Forgotten APRIL 14, 2020 – 10:05 AM – 0 COMMENTS Paulette Cohn
It’s 75 years since the end of World War II, but on tonight’s episode of NCIS one of the valiant sailors who was stationed aboard the U.S.S. Arizona at Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941 becomes the subject of an investigation by the team into his wartime activities.
Christopher Lloyd joins the cast as Joe Smith, whose wish is to be buried aboard the U.S.S. Arizona upon his death. The only problem is he needs help proving that he was actually stationed on the ship.
“We’ve wanted to do a Pearl Harbor story for quite some time, especially because we are a military show, but time is running out for this particular story,” co-executive producer Gina Lucita Monreal, who wrote the episode, exclusively told Parade.com. “In February, Donald Stratton passed away and now we only have two remaining survivors of the U.S.S. Arizona [Lou Conter and Ken Potts, both 98]. So, to me, it was really important to highlight this story and get the idea out there that we appreciate our World War II veterans, and that the sacrifices that they made have not gone unnoticed and will not be forgotten.”
For Monreal, there was only one actor who she felt could play the role: Christopher Lloyd, and she wrote the part with him in mind. His was the voice she had in her head.
“He had been offered to us for a smaller part about a month earlier, and we said, ‘No, no, no! If he’s really interested in doing the show, hold on,’” showrunner Frank Cardea says. “It gets really difficult when you’re casting someone playing a 96-year-old. Obviously, there are not many 96-year-old actors, and especially if it’s a very demanding role. There’s one scene where he had like a 4½-page monologue. So, Gina’s dream came true.”
Lloyd turns in an impressive performance. He has the necessary gravitas but he also brings humor to the character.
“It’s the idea that he can get under your skin, he could be funny, and finally, when he becomes emotional, it’s just all the more effective and powerful because he has gone through that range of emotions,” Monreal says. “Christopher Lloyd is just a complete pro and a beautiful actor. We were so lucky to get him.”
Lloyd played well with Mark Harmon, who stars as Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs, himself a war veteran and also the son of a World War II vet, so there is something about Joe that hits Gibbs at his core.
“Gibbs feels a connection to Joe initially because of his father, he sees many similarities between the two, and it allows him to understand Joe at a deeper level, but he also relates to Joe from the perspective of being a veteran and sometimes having it be hard to talk about what you saw,” Monreal agrees. “So, those two things in conjunction are what pushes Gibbs along emotionally and allows him to open up to that.”
It looks to me as if this episode is exactly as written, that when you found out that it was going to be the final episode of this season, you didn’t do anything to change it.
Frank Cardea: I’ll speak for Gina. It’s her episode and her baby, and I’ll let her tell you all about it. It was an idea we had toyed about, and Gina came and approached us with the idea. We toyed about making it the 400th. Fortunately, we didn’t because we didn’t get to shoot 400. We got to shoot 398. We got this one in under the wire. It was posted remotely by the incredible crew. But it feels like a final episode to me, and it all started with Gina’s incredible script.
Where Torres (Wilmer Valderrama) and Bishop (Emily Wickersham) are trying to question Joe and fail his history test, are you making a point here about historical knowledge? That maybe we need to learn our history better because, again, that old adage, those who don’t know their history are doomed to repeat it?
Gina Monreal: I think that’s definitely a part of it, but on a deeper level, it’s recognizing what these people went through, what our veterans went through, what they sacrificed for us, and if we don’t understand what actually happened during these events, how can we really appreciate the sacrifice that they made?
At what point did the Navy begin to let survivors be buried on the Arizona?
Gina Monreal: I don’t know, but there have been actually 44 people who were survivors who were interred there. Of the survivors that wanted their ashes interred there, I believe there are now 44.
What makes this interesting also is that in World War II, and I don’t know that it has happened in any war since then, especially not Vietnam, young men were willing to lie about their age in order to go fight. Is there something about that generation? Is that also what made you want to tell the story about these veterans?
Gina Monreal: Well, it is definitely a different mindset. A lot of them wanted to volunteer because it was just coming out of the Great Depression, and this was a way to make good money. But a lot of them were also seeing the world events that were happening and wanted to sign up. The historian at the memorial told me a story about how some of the young men would write the number 18 on the bottoms of their feet so that when they were asked, “Are you over 18?” They said, “yes,” and they weren’t lying. Even my own grandfather-in-law, he wanted to enlist with his brother, and he was only 16. He was actually turned away, but he was willing to go at 16. So, I think it was a time when people were growing up in a quicker way.
You mentioned earlier that you were supposed to have filmed your 400th episode. When production begins again, will it remain as it is, or will that episode have to be rewritten?
Frank Cardea: This episode is 398. Three ninety-nine was one day away from production, so those sets are built, the props have been purchased, the actors have been cast. So, I think when we come back into production again, that’ll probably be shot first. And then, I think we will keep 400 in its 400th slot, and assuming everybody’s well and all the actors are available, we will shoot it then. There are two other scripts right behind it that we’re close to getting ready to go and they’ll probably be shot in that order, and then we have a lot of flexibility to begin the new year. Because we have such lead time, we can air the first five or six in almost any order we want, and we’ll make that decision after the episodes are shot.
Did you have a cliffhanger finale or something special that wouldn’t work if it was just an episode within the season?
Frank Cardea: Fortunately, for us this year, we did not plan a cliffhanger. It was just a good, strong, solid episode, so it seemed to work out.
Exactly. My last question, so is the Ziva (Cote de Pablo) story done now? She’s been back and it looks like everything is resolved, or could she possibly return next season?
Frank Cardea: You’ve got the right person on the line to talk about it. Gina was the architect of the last Ziva arc. Gina, what do you think? Is there more story there?
Gina Monreal: Well, I had a lot of help. We loved the Ziva character going very deep, and so, it was such an honor to get to revisit that story and tie up some of the loose ends that we had, and it was such an honor to get to work with Cote again. If there’s more story to tell, I’m the first to jump on board. I love that character, and I hope that it showed through those episodes.
NCIS airs Tuesday nights at 8 p.m. ET/PT on CBS.
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