By Mallory Mattingly
NCIS stars Sean Murray and Gary Cole sat down with TV Insider to talk about the upcoming season of NCIS.
Murray spoke about how his character “McGee has a somewhat personal arc, something that is shocking to him, but also wonderful and really scary that involves family.”
“McGee, you know, is a guy who, I think, had things he wanted to go about life in a specific way,” Murray said of his character. “Wanted to, you know, eventually meet someone, get married, have kids, you know, he likes that, that normal life. And I think that, you know, we find that in real life that sometimes circumstances can pop up where things are a little more complicated than than it seems, and that sometimes things may go, I don’t know if awry is the right word, but things can sometimes go not so much as planned, and you can learn some things about yourself that you were not at all aware of before.”
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In an interview with TV Line, NCIS executive producer Steven D Binder spoke about “Parker’s revenge tour.”
“We have a good story there. With a lot of these things, the audience gets ahead of the story on some level,” Binder said. “But I can tell you that we’ve got some fun twists coming up. You’ll see some, and then you’ll realize that’s just the first step. We’re going to bring it to the present, so this won’t just be some esoteric history lesson in Alden Parker’s life.
“The theme of this season is ‘NCIS on Fire,’ and I think the premiere episodes are going to illustrate that,” he added. “We will do some standalones for sure, but a lot of what’s going to happen is just going to ignite our characters’ passions, whether that’s their passion for love, passion for revenge, passion for rescuing loved ones in danger, and Lily is going to be at the front and center of that, at least for Parker.”
Binder then spoke about the family dynamics between Parker and his sister, Harriet.
“The Alden Parker that we know and see now is not how Alden Parker was as a child,” Binder shared. “We’ve gotten into his history a little bit: he was a troubled kid, he was in juvie home, he stole things. And that’s the dynamic that his sister grew up with. He was the bad kid, and she was the good kid, and they’re going to relive that between the two of them. She’s this super squared-away admiral, and then you’ve got Alden Parker, who’s got this ‘bad kid’ seed, and those two are going to come to a head. And what’s funny about that is over Thanksgiving dinner is one thing; in the middle of a global crisis, the brother-sister bickering is very NCIS.”
Episodes 1-3 of season 23 are already on Hulu, Disney+, and Paramount+ to be streamed. This season of NCIS will be packed full of action and even some characters learning new things about themselves.
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