{"id":43736,"date":"2025-07-28T23:17:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T23:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/43736\/"},"modified":"2025-07-28T23:17:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T23:17:11","slug":"tony-and-ziva-intimacy-coordinators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/43736\/","title":{"rendered":"Tony and Ziva&#8217; Intimacy Coordinators"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/ncis\/\" id=\"auto-tag_ncis\" data-tag=\"ncis\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NCIS<\/a>\u201d favorite <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/cote-de-pablo\/\" id=\"auto-tag_cote-de-pablo\" data-tag=\"cote-de-pablo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cote de Pablo<\/a> recently <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/1204571\/ncis-tony-ziva-intimacy-coordinator-cote-de-pablo-michael-weatherly\/\" target=\"_blank\">told TV Insider<\/a> that she turned down the offer to use an intimacy coordinator with co-star <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/michael-weatherly\/\" id=\"auto-tag_michael-weatherly\" data-tag=\"michael-weatherly\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Weatherly<\/a> on their upcoming franchise sequel series \u201cNCIS: Tony &amp; Ziva,\u201d which debuts in September on Paramount+. The two actors were series regulars together on CBS\u2019 flagship \u201cNCIS\u201d series for 12 seasons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cDid not need one,\u201d de Pablo said when asked about intimacy coordinators. \u201cThey asked me first, I think because I\u2019m a female and blah, blah, blah, and I said, \u2018I don\u2019t need one. Thank you for offering.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cMichael and I have a lot of trust with each other and are great friends,\u201d she added. \u201cSo, when it comes to shooting these things we don\u2019t want to be micromanaged. We like to explore it, and we trust each other enough that we allow that to happen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tWeatherly echoed her thoughts by telling <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/1204571\/ncis-tony-ziva-intimacy-coordinator-cote-de-pablo-michael-weatherly\/\" target=\"_blank\">TV Insider<\/a>: \u201cI said, \u2018Whatever Cote wants.\u2019 Love scenes are complicated because that level of nonverbal communication \u2014 you kiss someone the way you want to be kissed or you touch someone the way you want to be touched \u2014 that is a deep level of communication. Physical interaction starts with trust. Luckily, Cote and I do not have an issue in that area. We had to do that right out of the gate in [\u2018NCIS\u2018s\u2019 \u2018Under Covers\u2019] episode.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cTony &amp; Ziva\u201d marks de Pablo and Weatherly\u2019s return to the \u201cNCIS\u201d franchise. It\u2019s also notable for being Weatherly\u2019s first major series regular role since CBS\u2019 \u201cBull,\u201d which ran for six seasons between 2016 and 2022. Weatherly was <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2018\/tv\/news\/eliza-dushku-harassment-bull-cbs-1203089604\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">accused of sexual harassment<\/a> by co-star Eliza Dushku during the show\u2019s run. Dushku received a $9.5 million settlement from CBS after the actress alleged she was the subject of several inappropriate comments made by Weatherly on the set of \u201cBull.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cNCIS: Tony &amp; Ziva\u201d premieres its first three episodes on Sep. 3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cNCIS\u201d favorite Cote de Pablo recently told TV Insider that she turned down the offer to use an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43737,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[34863,88,34864,34865,34866],"class_list":["post-43736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-cote-de-pablo","tag-entertainment","tag-michael-weatherly","tag-ncis","tag-ncis-tony-ziva"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43736\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}