"As long as a character doesn't die, the character can always come back. "The greatest thing about this last episode is that Ziva doesn't die," she says. I feel like that was a beautiful way of ending - for now, certainly - a beautiful chapter between these two."ĭid she say "for now"? Although you get the feeling any reprise would be years in the future, de Pablo has a surprisingly hopeful, never-say-never answer when asked if she could ever return for a cameo or something bigger. My first scene ever in the bullpen was with Michael, and my goodbye scene was with Michael. Ziva's most intimate moments were with Tony, and de Pablo enthuses over "getting to close things off with my partner in crime, Michael. Cote took it and ran with it, and the emotion you'll see on screen is very real." "We wanted to give her the most graceful, emotional payoff we could," says exec producer Gary Glasberg. "I'm horrible at saying goodbyes, because I've been saying goodbyes ever since I left my country when I was 10, so even though I did not utter the word goodbye, I was able to hug them and let them know how much I loved them. The final shoot was "a beautiful day - a quiet, intimate set," she says. I left under my terms, and that was wonderful." A lot of people don't get the privilege of going back to a set and being able to say goodbye to people. "But I'm not of the belief that you just take off and leave fans hanging. "Did I want to leave under those circumstances? That's another story," she says. I don't want to start anything unless it's like that."īittersweet is the word she inevitably uses to describe how it felt to wrap up her storyline at the -beginning of Season 11. I need to get really excited about something, because for eight years I was really excited about this character. If I were panicking now, it would defeat the purpose. "Leaving NCIS was not planned, so there is no plan. She has no grand scheme for doing a sitcom or movies.
It was an overwhelmingly hard thing - at times terrifying." "The idea of leaving was not something I toyed around with for a long time. "As far as my decision to leave, that's a personal thing, and I'd rather leave it at that," she says. Clearly, there was a last-minute impasse no one wants to discuss, beyond the network's insistence that money wasn't a factor.
Such mixed feelings may only deepen the mystery of why de Pablo left.
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