Ncis why did kate leave

But according to then-showrunner Donald P. Bellisario, Alexander found the workload to be too much for her to handle. A couple of years earlier, things had turned icy between her and Harmon after his dog bit a crew member.

If you believe them? Please leave me alone. Sorry guys, had to be said. So, why didn't the actress stick around the CBS hit show for more seasons? Bellisario addressed Sasha Alexander's sudden departure and her character Kate Todd's death in an interview with the Chicago Tribune. Bellisario recalled how Alexander visited him when he was writing the Season 2 finale episode. In July , a couple of months after Todd's dramatic death aired, Bellisario shed some light on the situation in a conversation with the Chicago Tribune.

We work very long hours," and added that although Alexander was technically under contract to CBS, he persuaded the network's brass to let her go. While Bellisario and Alexander knew what was coming, no one else knew about her departure. Fans got wind that one of the NCIS team was going to die in the season two finale.

But exactly who it would be was kept so secret that they even shot an alternate ending where Todd survived, with some of the footage eventually used in Gibbs' alternate reality fantasy.

Bellisario isn't the only one to ever lend credence to the idea that working on NCIS could be taxing to the point of exhaustion for some of his stars. Mark Harmon, who has portrayed Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs on the series for 17 grueling years, has spoken in the past not only about how difficult a gig NCIS can be, but about how it used to be even more so early in the series' run.

During the series' 16th season, Harmon had a chat with Entertainment Tonight in which he acknowledged that as plum a gig as his starring role on NCIS is, it's not exactly a walk in the park. And we miss that sometimes, because this is a happy group and we all work hard," Harmon said. And that's because you've got such talented people in so many different directions here, who all get in the same path of what they're trying to do" via CheatSheet.

In a interview with The Talk, Harmon described the early days of the series in terms that suggest a schedule that was nothing short of brutal.