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Exclusive Interview: NCIS Star Brian Dietzen

"Anonymous Was a Woman" -- Gibbs and McGee travel to Afghanistan when a murder case leads them to an Afghan women’s shelter Mike Frank’s secretly supported for years, on NCIS, Tuesday, Oct. 15 (8:00-9:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network. Pictured left to right: Brian Dietzen and David McCallum Photo: Sonja FlemmingCBS ©2013 CBS Broadcasting, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

 

As Jimmy Palmer on NCIS, actor Brian Dietzen has gone from a one-time guest to one of the stars of the show. But while he’s gotten this career boost on one of the biggest shows on TV, that success thankfully hasn’t gone to his head, as Brian has remained the same down-to-Earth guy he was when the show started eleven years ago. Or the same as he was when I met him seven years ago at a party for the video game Assassin’s Creed.

A few days after he finished filming the last episode of NCIS’ eleventh season, Brian and I had brunch at Home Café in Silverlake, where we talked about the season just past, how he went from a one-time guest to one of the stars of the show, and what his costar Pauley Perrette, who plays Abby, really thinks of him.

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Exclusive Interview: NCIS star Pauley Perrette, Part 2

In the second part of my interview with Pauley Perrette — the first half of which can be read here — we talk about how she spends her summer vacations, the documentary she’s making, her bakery, and why, though she’s now BFFs with George Lucas, she won’t be in the new Star Wars movie.

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Exclusive Interview: NCIS star Pauley Perrette, Part I

As we all know, some actors get a little nutty when they get a little famous. But not Pauley Perrette, who plays Abby Sciuto on CBS’ wildly popular military crime drama NCIS. While it’s made her one of the biggest stars on TV, Perrette has remained as approachable, kind, and grounded as she was when I first met her fifteen years ago. (That she looks exactly the same as well is just proof, as we all know, that life isn’t fair.)

Consider this: Usually, you interview the star of a big TV show at a fancy restaurant, or on the show’s set, or in the conference room of their publicist’s office. But for this interview, Pauley suggested we go to one of her favorite bars with her fiancé, Thomas, and sit out back. Y’know, by the dumpsters. Which wasn’t the most interesting thing to happen that night.

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