Despite the Look Issues, NCIS: Origins Has a Perfect Match for Gibbs, Confirmed by Mark Harmon
Fans now have one more reason to have some faith in the upcoming show.
It took quite some time for NCIS ’ future spinoff to restore its reputation and fix one major controversy, but all the possible doubts will now be gone after its biggest figure’s revelation.
Coming as the franchise’s first ever series to go back in time, NCIS: Origins will follow the original show’s most prominent Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs during his first years at NCIS, finally unveiling the character’s biggest secrets kept from the audience for decades of NCIS’ long-standing run.
Announced earlier this year, NCIS: Origins was quick to get all the possible criticism and major backlash from the franchise’s fans promising to boycott the show just due to one tiny detail.
Luckily, the issue is no longer there, and the spinoff now has even more chances to retrieve its potential viewers’ trust after recent revelations from a cast member.
Having portrayed Gibbs in the original show ever since its launch and right up to season 19, Mark Harmon is set to reprise his role, but in a different manner. The CBS police procedural franchise seemingly followed Young Sheldon ’s suit and brought Harmon back to the story as the narrator for everything that ever happened to him in his earlier years.
Young Gibbs will now be played by Austin Stowell whose look in the future series was causing a major controversy for quite a long time before it eventually was fixed.
Still, despite being heavily criticized by NCIS fans for months, Stowell can’t be any better for the role, and Mark Harmon does think so too.
Ahead of NCIS: Origins’ release on CBS in October, Harmon, who also serves as an executive producer of the series, revealed that everyone had instantly known that Stowell had been a perfect fit right after the latter had been done with the audition.
According to the actor, other exec Gina Lucita Monreal actually swooned when Stowell nailed his test read, “and when (Stowell) walked out of the room, she said, 'Now that guy is a star!’”
NCIS: Origins is set to premiere on October 14 on CBS.
Source: USA Today