Now slated to anchor NBC’s Suits: L.A. spinoff, actor Stephen Amell had his sights set on a different offshoot show right before he auditioned for the Los Angeles lawyer role.
Amell revealed that he tried out for the role of a younger Leroy Jethro Gibbs character in NCIS : Origins just days before he auditioned for his Suits: L.A. character Ted Black, a former federal prosecutor from New York who started over in Los Angeles and built a legacy for himself.
The role for the NCIS prequel went to Austin Stowell. “My focus wasn’t on Suits L.A.
Two auditions came in [that week]. One was via Zoom, and this audition for suits was actually in person, which I remember being incredibly excited about because I don’t remember the last time [that happened,” Amell told Michael Rosenbaum on a new episode of the latter’s Inside of You podcast . “My actual focus that week was on an audition that I had on Wednesday for the prequel to NCIS .
It was playing the younger version of [Mark Harmon’s Leroy Jethro Gibbs].” Even though he hadn’t fully watched NCIS, Amell said he was “excited by the prospect” of a network show and “pilot season” which “doesn’t happen that much anymore.”The actor’s television credits include Starz’s Heels and Greg Berlanti’s CW Show Arrow — which he recalled “filming til 3 in the morning.
” He recalled feeling like his NCIS: Origins audition went well. “This came in, and I thought that the audition went extraordinarily well. I.