"I made a serious mistake to stay home and sent me a car and went to set myself, and Mark came to me, and - he was kind enough, but he was very strict, and he said," He came to set up, we decide when you were sick, "De Pablo paraphrased. "It was like," came to set yourself up, and then we would determine how we turn to this. "

The actress says the lesson learned from the exchange is "don't take a sick day", but in retrospect, the situation sounds pretty distorted. Harmon was not added as a producer in the Season 6, but this incident reportedly happened in Season 3, which means he would tell his co -worker that he had a final word on whether it was bad enough to miss the job when he was not her boss. According to the story, he asked her to work with fever, which could also be a risk of infection and dangerous for her health.

De Pablo says "mentally", the situation "just made a trick (her), but also says she never got sick - or at least, never stayed home - after the conversation. From an external perspective, Harmon does not meet at all (other co-starswells including Michael weather and Pauli Pereett reported negative experiences and with him), but the situation has obviously helped De Pablo realize that absent crew members can maintain all production. "When you think about it, you know, everyone in production can do work, better, worse, whatever," she said in podcast. "But no one can play McGee, no one can play Dinoco ... so you really had to be there, and that's a lot of pressure."

Obviously, the attraction of returning to the world of NCIS transcends all the long -term feelings of pressure de Cat may have: she will reprise her role as Ziva in Ann Spinoff's upcoming series entitled "NCIS: Tony and Ziva", What will unite with weatherly. There is still no word on whether Harmon will be included - or whether he has relaxed his policy on a sick day in the past two decades.