Farewell Agent DiNozzo: Michael Weatherly Says Goodbye to NCIS
Cover photograph of Michael Weatherly by Jeff Lipsky/Corbis
It’s the end of an era on NCIS. After 13 seasons playing boisterous, unpredictable man-child of an agent Tony DiNozzo, Michael Weatherly is signing off the venerable CBS drama. His exit has been a long time in the making. It’s something, says Weatherly, he began thinking about seriously two and a half years ago, in Season 11, after the departure of Cote de Pablo, who played his verbal sparring partner and love interest, Ziva. “Their great dynamic, the badinage and sparring and flirting between those two characters and how they would swing from siblings to near lovers and back to buddies,” he says, “that was gone, and then I got to the point where I felt I’d stayed at the party for too long. I would look around the room and other people were really in sync and having fun. The show was a huge success, but I just suddenly realized that I probably had other things that I should be doing. And then the wanderlust set in. I directed a documentary. I have a production company. And I wanted to spend time with my family.”
Also in this issue:
• Jane the Virgin: Jane and Michael finally head to the alter in the season finale. Will the show need a new title for Season 3?!
• The Voice‘s Adam Levine: The Maroon 5 frontman on why he still loves sitting in those red rock chairs.
• Preacher: All hell is about to break loose in AMC’s dark new supernatural series.
• black-ish: The Good Times roll in the second season finale’s homage to a ’70s sitcom classic.
• All the Way: Breaking Bad‘s Bryan Cranston bring his Tony-winning portrayal of Lyndon Baines Johnson to HBO
• Person of Interest: Our report from the set of the CBS cyber thriller, which finally returns for its final season.
• Bones: A guided tour of the Jeffersonian’s creepy and cool lab.
• Plus: Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly, New Girl, Once Upon a Time, Gotham, The 100, Royal Pains, The Bold and the Beautiful and more.
