Rocky Carroll didn’t see his last episode of NCIS until it aired. But Carroll — who has played NCIS Director Leon Vance on the CBS series since 2008 — didn’t watch the March 24 episode alone. “I was at a Screen Actors Guild screening in New York City with 150 total strangers. I’m sitting there watching it on screen and my biggest concern, more than anything, was [for it not to be] a boring episode,” he tells The Hollywood Reporter. “I’m watching it just like the other people and I’m like, ‘Man, that was a damn good episode.’”
That “damn good episode” was bittersweet for longtime NCIS fans. Killing off a fan favorite who anchored the series for as many years as Carroll — especially after original star Mark Harmon stepped back as Leroy Jethro Gibbs, better known as Gibbs, on NCIS back in 2019 — was not just risky; it was highly emotional.
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