NCIS stars Cote de Pablo and Michael Weatherly grew close quickly after meeting each other. And although they had a lot in common, de Pablo felt she had a pretty solid idea about what their boundaries were. Whereas it was sometimes still a learning process for her co-star.

Cote de Pablo recently reflected on her friendship with Michael Weatherly De Pablo and Weatherly seemed to have a lot in common, which was why they were able to click almost immediately after they met. De Pablo had to quickly get over her first impression of her co-star, however, who ended up jeopardizing his on screen partner’s audition by going off script . Since then, however, de Pablo and Weatherly have only gotten closer.

“That relationship was established the moment that we met. Nothing changed, it was just enhanced. And we loved each other as well.

We realized we’re so drastically different and so much alike that there was an immediate attraction,” de Pablo once told Entertainment Weekly . Their partnership and banter seem to be not too unlike their onscreen relationship in NCIS . And their real-life chemistry hasn’t changed a bit since their first meeting all those years ago.

In a recent interview with Variety , de Pablo delved a little bit further into their dynamic. For instance, de Pablo knows where the boundaries are between them when they’re having fun and ribbing each other. But Weatherly sometimes still has a difficult time identifying those same boundaries, which can lead to more.