Mark Harmon is breaking his silence about leaving 'NCIS' after almost 19 seasons and why he felt it was time to say goodbye.
“What has all the time drawn me right here is the character I play and to maintain it contemporary and to maintain it difficult,” NCIS alum Mark Harmon stated within the season 19 DVD launch, in keeping with Leisure Tonight. “Plot-wise, this character has taken the trail that it did. I believed it was trustworthy and OK with.” The 70-year-old actor revealed that he’s “not retired.” As for Gibbs, “The character resides in Alaska so far as I do know.”
Mark shocked followers in October 2021 when his character left the long-running CBS collection 4 episodes into its nineteenth season. On the finish of his final episode, Mark’s character, Leroy Jethro Gibbs, revealed that he was going to be staying in Alaska after fixing his last case with McGee.
Gibbs advised McGee that he wasn’t certain about how lengthy he’d be staying. “My intestine’s telling me, I’ll know once I discover it,” Gibbs stated of what he was on the lookout for by staying in Alaska. “This sense of peace, I've not had this since Shannon and Kelly died and I’m not able to let it go.”
He additionally let McGee know simply how a lot he means to him throughout their emotional goodbye. “I couldn't have imagined anybody higher to have watched my again from the previous 18 years than you, Tim. I really like you, man,” Gibbs stated.
Following Mark’s last look on NCIS, showrunner Steven D. Binder launched the next assertion and hinted at a potential Gibbs return: “As an govt producer and expensive buddy, Mark continues to be an integral a part of the material of the present. Our north star has all the time been staying true to our characters, and that reality has all the time guided the tales we inform and the place these characters go. So relating to the way forward for Gibbs, as longtime followers of the present could have seen through the years… by no means depend Leroy Jethro Gibbs out.”
NCIS will return for its milestone twentieth season on September 19. Steven teased followers shall be seeing extra of the characters’ private lives within the upcoming season. “We’ll be seeing their non-work life a little bit extra,” he advised Parade. “I feel one of many cores of the present is the instances. The present’s known as NCIS, it’s in regards to the Naval Felony Investigative Service. However anybody who watches the present is aware of that it’s actually in regards to the individuals on the present.”