Eric Christian Olsen Says Goodbye to ‘NCIS: Los Angeles’ With a Haircut
Olsen says he is aware of followers are ’emotionally invested’ in Deeks’ hair, however…
The sequence finale of NCIS: Los Angeles can be a two-parter, airing May 14 and 21, however manufacturing has already wrapped and the sequence finale get together, celebrating 14 seasons of the drama, was held on the Paramount Studios lot, the place the present filmed.
Parade was readily available to talk to the forged on the outside bash, together with Eric Christian Olsen, who was already sporting a brand new look, a barely shorter haircut than he’s been in a position to put on since signing on to his function as Marty Deeks 13 years in the past. Deeks, after all, is legendary for his lengthy, blond, tousled locks.
Apparently, there’s many issues that Olsen goes to overlook about NCIS: Los Angeles, particularly the forged and crew, however lengthy hair isn’t one among them, and he is able to get away the scissors!
“Yes, I’m going to cut it. I’m going to cut it short,” he tells Parade. “Have you seen the last six months? It’s gotten shorter and shorter and shorter. I know fans are very emotionally invested in that hair, but I’m going to cut it.”
Eric Christian Olsen with a shorter ‘do
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Possibly one of many causes he wants a shorter ‘do is for his new position as one of the executive producers on the CBS reboot of Matlock, which will do a gender switch and star Kathy Bates in the title role.
“I’m leaving for Toronto to provide that for CBS,” he instructed us, however added he isn’t certain if he’ll write any of the episodes like he did for NCIS: Los Angeles.
“Our writer is this unbelievable writer named Jennie Snyder Urman, who created Jane the Virgin, and she’s incredible,” he says. “I don’t think that I have the skill set to do that. I really wanted to do that experience because when you’re working with writers it’s hard to say we need to implement X, Y, and Z if you’ve never done it, so you’ve got to sit down with an empty page and say, ‘I’ve got to tell a story.’ I did the first one, ‘Mother,’ with a writing partner. And then I did ‘To Live Free or Die Standing’ by myself. That process was amazing, but I don’t know if I’ll continue to write.”
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The new model of Matlock on which he serves as EP will see good septuagenarian Madeline Matlock (Bates) rejoin the work pressure at a prestigious regulation agency the place she makes use of her unassuming demeanor and wily ways to win instances and expose corruption from inside.
She can be joined by Jason Ritter, Skye P. Marshall, David Del Rio and Leah Lewis.
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Olsen won’t be performing within the sequence, the truth is, he hasn’t introduced his subsequent undertaking in entrance of the digital camera, however he does have a number of different initiatives lined as much as produce.
Olsen’s manufacturing firm Cloud Nine offered 4 initiatives to CBS, two comedies and two dramas: Family Insurance, a single-camera Latinx family office comedy; Mixed Signals, a single-camera romantic comedy; the crime drama Peculiar; and an untitled authorized drama.
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NCIS: Los Angeles airs Sunday nights at 10 p.m. ET/PT on CBS.
