Fans quickly fell in love with Mark Harmon and Cote de Pablo's characters every week on "NCIS," but little did they know how close they really were when the cameras stopped rolling. During an interview with Entertainment Tonight, the Latina actor revealed the quirky nickname her co-star gave to her. "He calls me goat. Don't ask me why," she said with a laugh. Harmon joked that "cote the goat" seemingly goes together and added that they have a great relationship. "If you're going to spend the kind of hours that we spend here, you better like each other and fortunately we do."
De Pablo abruptly left the series in 2013 after eight seasons and, while fans were devastated at the time, she was able to reprise her role as Special Agent Ziva David in 2019, per USA TODAY. Despite the fact that Harmon and de Pablo hadn't worked together for six years, she revealed to the outlet that they picked up right where they left off. "When you know somebody that well, you could just show up to set and there's that trust," de Pablo said. "It really felt like just slipping back into a really comfortable slipper."
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