“Good news, you are going to die.” The ‘NCIS’ actress who left the series in the most dramatic way possible after saying she couldn’t continue working so hard

There are many actors who have worked regularly in ‘NCIS’ who have left the series for one reason or another throughout its 20 years of existence. However, the most shocking exit of all came at the end of its season 2, which was when the actress Sasha Alexander She commented that she was exhausted by the pace of the series, so they decided to get rid of her character in the most drastic way possible.

“I love this series, but I can’t work that hard”

The truth is that Alexander did not participate in the pilot episode of the series and was chosen at the last minute to replace Robyn Lively (‘Ouija’) at the request of CBS. The hard pace of work imposed by Donald P. Bellisarioco-creator of the series and its showrunner during her first seasons in ‘NCIS’ made an impact on the actress, as she remembered in Donald P. Bellisario in The Hollywood Reporter:

In year two, Sasha went to Don and said, “I love this show, but I can’t work that hard.” We were working long hours. I don’t think he wanted to leave the show, he just wanted a lighter workload. Bellisario was always a writer who went for the cataclysmic. He said, “Well, what if we kill her?” Everybody says that?” And he went to her and said, “Good news—your workload is going to be lighter. But you’re going to die.” (Laughs.) It was in the last minute or two of the series—the shot to her head. It has always been one of the most shocking things on the Internet, the endings that you don’t see coming.

Alexander recalled years later that “People don’t realize that when you work on a cable network, you do 24 episodes a year. That’s 10 and a half months a year, 17 hours a day.“. An exhausting pace that I could not maintain, and also He doesn’t regret what happened at allgiven that “I firmly believe in my heart that I would not be where I am today – happily married, with two children, doing the creative things I love – if I had stayed. I didn’t want to wake up, be 40 years old and think, ‘Oh, god!’ But people don’t understand it“.

Besides, It’s not that he lacked work. to Alexander, both in the cinema, where we have seen her in titles such as ‘Mission Impossible III’ or ‘Say yes’, and on television, for example being one of the two main protagonists of ‘Rizzoli & Isles’. And her death did not mean her final goodbye from ‘NCIS’, since years later she appeared again in an episode of season 9 and another of season 12.

For its part, Bellisario was delighted with death of Caitin Todd’s character, since “I wanted to do something shocking and that’s what I did, because people weren’t expecting it at all. It was something that happened out of nowhere.“.

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