NEW YORK, Oct. 23 (UPI) -- Cote de Pablo says reuniting with Michael Weatherly for NCIS: Tony & Ziva was a leap of faith that, in some ways, mirrored what the estranged lovers they play were going through.
Wrapping up its first season on Paramount+ Thursday, the series reunites the titular former Naval Criminal Investigative Service special agents after 12 years for a new globe-trotting adventure. Along for the ride is their daughter Tali, played by Isla Gie.
"We went into it knowing it was going to be special because Michael and I really wanted to work together. What it was going to turn into or if everything that we hoped was going to be sort of done, we kind of had to trust," de Pablo, 45, recently told UPI during a round-table interview with reporters at New York Comic Con.
"It's a game of trust," she said. "Funny enough, ironically, the entire Season 1 became a journey into a relationship that explored trust and honesty, so very much what we were living in our life -- and trying to trust and see where this was going to go -- was also happening within the relationship of Tony and Ziva."
De Pablo said she had no trouble getting back into the role so many years after leaving the NCIS mothership series.
