Why Kate Todd Sasha Alexander left NCIS

“NCIS” still reaches to CBS. So far, the procedure of military -marital crimes has been on the air for so long that he has already had his podcast rewatch. “Outside Directions: NCIS Rewatch” is held in joint mode Michael Wheterley and Cot de Pablo, two major shows of the shows (together with Mark Harmon and Pauley perforte) Both eventually left, speaking for several years, playing their roles.

Unlike most Rewatch podcasts, however, “Off Duty” does not apply excessive nostalgia, which makes sense, given the alleged hard working conditions, which several participants of the acting spoke about. The right in this: there is episode Where both hosts deepen into, obviously, the depleting early seasons with the former Sasha Alexander Star, whose special Agent Kaitlin Todd was killed only after two seasons “NCIS”.

Alexander was from NCIS from the beginning. She was playing agent toda In the early pilot episodes “Jag” “Jag” Before moving to a new series with colleagues leading Harmon and Wetley. The actor appeared in almost 50 episodes of the show before Kate faced the dramatic fate in the final of the 2 season. At the end of the episode called “Twilight” Kate was shot dead in Ari (Rudolph Martin), Massada Agent, whom her colleagues conducted the next two episodes, which chased for an emotional attempt to avenge her unexpected death.

Behind the scenes, on the other hand, the exit from Alexander was probably unexpected. During the years, she found that she had been burned according to the intensive production schedule.

Still, when Alexander came out of NCIS, co -author of the Donald P. Belisario series attributed her departure with questions related to her endurance. “I had already started writing the last episode of the season and was preparing to go to Australia to take a short break,” said Belisario Chicago Tribune In 2005, “Sasha came two days before I was supposed to leave, and with tears in her eyes she said,” I just can’t work. ” But while Belisario sounds in an interview, he did not mention the attempts to reform the schedule to avoid future burnout – what, unfortunately, was ordinary for network shows at the time.

“We work very long hours, and Sasha just didn’t feel that she was physically up to such a time and affection,” Belisario added. “Although we had a contract, I went to the CBS and said,” You don’t want to force anyone to work when she says it wasn’t what she was waiting. “Then it was pretty end of the conversation, and attempts at the action of unhealthy work schedules continued to ignore for a decade. and the television industry as a whole For the public call of “hard” 17-hour working days in “Anatomy Gray” In 2009.

Fortunately, work movements, investigative works such as Morin Ryan’s book “Burn It”, and world events have clarified the public understanding that Hollywood kits are a workplace, like any other – and that studios, networks and directors should provide the same level of protection for employees as any other chief. In 2022, years after the displacement of her Castor, the actor “Anatomy Gray” called Ellen Pumpeo albae “full hero” for what he told about “mad hours” at the exhibition (in the show (in the showFor TV). It seems like there is a similarly released mood under the “NCIS” podcast, where de Pablo, the weather and Alexander were very sincere about the chaos and the tension behind the scenes of the mass popular series.

“I was doing a few shows earlier” NCIS “, but not as difficult,” said Alexander De Pablo and Wetley in the episode of June 2024, adding that it had not only had long hours but also some problems with writing terms. “We didn’t have full scripts early, we had actions,” she explained. Weatherly agreed by comparing the early seasons of the show with the game 52 pickup (“mess”) and reminding the tendency to the series for all three leading actors to appear in each stage – whether it is a meaning to history or not. Sometimes, he said, the supplements that have already wrapped their scenes will suddenly be translated into the villain episode, which led to additional sequences that did not make sense for the acting and exerted much pressure on those additional additives (some of which did not talk to the role, according to Weatherly).

It will be enough for the scenes to snatch anyone. Of course, as Alexander and Watelli noted, it did not help that “no one” had life under the borders of their work at this moment the show. The lack of a working life associated with the CBS procedure affected the role that Alexander chose the following, including the leading turn on “Rizzoli & Asplos” TNT. As she explained de Pablo:

“I think before” NCIS “, the shows I did in some way had a greater balance, as they were either real ensembles. I mean usually when you look like one (on call) as” ritzoli and island “,” I worked all the time. But there were times when we could throw the ball back and forth each other. “

Alexander has already talked about the fare dangerous long Networking a few days before the world was ready to hear about it. “People don’t realize what on the network show you are doing 24 episodes a year – it’s 10½ months a year, 17 hours a day,” – she Told the television guide back in 2012. “It’s Hardcore.” Despite the fact that she said the exit that “people do not understand” her choice to get out of sustainable work, as in her “NCIS”, she does not regret. “I really believe in my heart that I wouldn’t be where I am today – happily married, with two children, doing creatively what I want – if I stayed,” Alexander added.

As for the actor who took it for her when she was gone? At the “duty”, de Pablo remembered Alexander, gently touching her face for the first time when they met and gave her simple tips that had remained with her for years: “Be strong.” De Pablo hasn’t appeared at the exhibition since 2020 but she intends to reunite with Weatherly for The upcoming series of a sequel called “NCIS: Tony & Ziva”.