If you’re familiar with Cote de Pablo , then chances are you first learned about her from NCIS , the long-running CBS procedural that’s returning for Season 22 this fall on the 2024 TV schedule . Pablo came aboard to play Ziva David in Season 3 following the death of Sasha Alexander’s Caitlin Todd at the end of Season 2, and she stuck around as a series regular for eight seasons. However, she got quite a scare during one of her earliest NCIS appearances, as she didn’t have her lines memorized during an important scene with David McCallum’s Donald “Ducky” Mallard, which led to her feeling like “such a failure.
” De Pablo recalled this uncomfortable moment in the episode of Off Duty: An NCIS Rewatch where she and co-host Michael Weatherly , who plays Tony DiNozzo in the NCIS -verse, were talking with Eric Christian Olsen, who played Marty Deeks on NCIS: Los Angeles and is now producing the Matlock reboot . Weatherly started off the story by saying: But here's the story I want to tell about Cote de Pablo, and it's her first season, her first couple of episodes. We're shooting two stages, two different episodes simultaneously, as you do.
And she's finishing a scene, and she's still learning what a call sheet is, where it is on the thing. So she finishes the scene, and it's a long scene, and you finish in coverage..
. That is the most stressful part, is your coverage..
. All of a sudden another AD appears with the pink call sheet, and they're like ‘Cote, so soon a.