Many viewers weren’t expecting Ziva to leave NCIS and according to an interview with Weatherly back in 2013, neither did he.
The Tony DiNozzo actor spoke to World Screen Podcast in March of that year, seven months before Ziva’s final episode, stating that none of the cast were looking elsewhere for work.
He said: “We’re an open, relaxed environment where there is a free exchange of ideas and thoughts, it’s not a creatively inhibiting place and it’s a real pleasure to go to a workspace like that.
“There’s nobody that’s thinking, ‘What’s next?’ in terms of a career, everyone is really satisfied and happy to be where we are.”
source: express.co.uk