Stephen Amell Auditioned To Play Gibbs In NCIS: Origins, And He Explained How Losing That Role And Other Stresses Helped Him Land Suits L.A.

Following his eight-season run as Oliver Queen on The CW’s Arrow and his short-lived run playing Jack Spade in Heels , Stephen Amell will soon be back on the small screen, this time setting up shop on NBC. Earlier this year, he was cast to play Ted Black in Suits L.A.

, but had things turned out differently, we might have seen him playing Leroy Jethro Gibbs in the prequel NCIS: Origins instead. While his audition for that show premiering soon on the 2024 TV schedule didn’t end up working out, that missed opportunity and other stresses in Amell’s life ended up helping his Suits L.A.

audition. How Stephen Amell's NCIS: Origins Audition Went During his latest visit to Inside of You with Michael Rosenbaum , Stephen Amell recalled to the title host how when both the NCIS : Origins and Suits L.A.

auditions came his way this past January, a few months after the writers and actors strikes had ended. As such, he admitted that had Origins come along as an offer, he wouldn’t have necessarily done it, but he was “excited” by the prospect of auditioning for a network show during pilot season, which “doesn’t really happen that much anymore.” He continued: So this came in, and I thought the audition went extraordinarily well, I got great feedback.

I hadn’t looked at the sides for Suits LA yet. And then I found out on Thursday afternoon, after getting not just good feedback, but good intel, ‘We think this is actually going to move forward,’ all of a sudden, it was dea.