Mark Harmon ‘There to Help’ Behind Camera as ‘NCIS’ Prequel Producer

Mark Harmon is taking a step behind the digicam for the upcoming NCIS prequel.

“I’m there to assist and to speak to them or to inform them what I bear in mind from being on this for some time. However that is their factor,” Harmon, 73, informed CBS Information in an interview revealed on Friday, October 11.

Harmon, maybe greatest recognized for enjoying Particular Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs on the CBS drama NCIS for practically twenty years, goes behind-the-scenes as an government producer and narrator for the upcoming spin-off prequel, NCIS: Origins. Austin Stowell is ready to star within the new collection as a youthful model of Gibbs.

“From day one, [Harmon] has been obtainable,” Stowell informed CBS. “He’s so good at permitting the people who find themselves on this present to really feel like they’re supported.”

Set in 1991, NCIS: Origins will observe Stowell’s younger Gibbs throughout his early years as a rookie NCIS agent and delve deeper into his backstory and private historical past.

“It is a probability to essentially form of dig into it,” Harmon stated of Origins, noting that younger Gibbs is “in tough form” when the prequel kicks off, as he’ll nonetheless be grieving the lack of his spouse and baby.

Stowell informed the outlet: “Loss is one thing all of us cope with and for Gibbs, that is one thing that has cracked him to his core.” The prequel will even characteristic fashionable locales from the unique NCIS collection, which premiered in 2003, together with Camp Pendleton and Daley’s Tavern. (Harmon portrayed Gibbs on display for 18 years earlier than his exit from the unique collection in 2021.)

Stowell additionally gushed over the chance to work on the Paramount lot. “You are available in and audition right here for years and years, and hastily, you’re offered with a badge together with your identify on it,” he stated, including that it might be nerve-wracking at occasions. “I felt very assured in what I might deliver to the character, after which the second you stroll within the room, that each one goes out the window.”

NCIS: Origins was ordered by CBS in January for the 2024-2025 broadcast season. In response to the official synopsis, NCIS: Origins follows Gibbs as he “begins his profession as a newly minted particular agent on the fledgling NCIS Camp Pendleton workplace the place he forges his place on a gritty, ragtag workforce led by NCIS legend Mike Franks.”

NCIS: Origins premieres on CBS Monday, October 14, at 10 p.m. ET.