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Read a great interview from Australia that they did with Michael when he was down there.
Inside Interview: Michael Weatherly
You're in Sydney for the TV Week Logie Awards and a slew of press commitments for NCIS. How's it going?
I'm having an amazing time. The flight alone [from LA] is so much fun. I'm a fan of the plane wine. [Laughs.] So it's been an absolutely wonderful time. Hamish and Andy — I love them. I had so much fun meeting them backstage [at the Logies] and then doing their radio show the next morning. I was exhausted, but they carried me through. And I have to say a slew of other people that night were so much fun. Fifi Box has more energy than a hurricane. It's been extraordinary. And yesterday I had a great big walk through Sydney with my niece [Alexandra Breckenridge].
She lives here?
No, my niece came with me. She's my sister's kid — but she's not a kid, she's 24. She's an actress on a show called Dirt in the States so, in her own right, she's a force to be reckoned with. But we see the world the same way. She's very cool.
So you're having a break from work for a few months?
We hear you work ridiculous hours on NCIS. Is it hard to create family time with your son because of that?
It's really hard. It takes its toll. Fortunately August's mother [actress Amelia Heinle] works on a daytime soap in LA called The Young And The Restless and she just got married to a lovely guy named Thad Luckinbill. And so August has a really solid home there, and I get my weekends when I'm there. We go to basketball games and we make home movies and go for hikes but, yeah, it is hard. It's not ideal.
I guess you work hard at your career to ensure your child's future, but then it's finding that balance to spend the time with them too?
Any parent working hard to create a career could identify, though...
Yeah, I guess. I'll get home at five in the morning on Saturday having started the week Monday morning at 6am. So Saturday and Sunday is my time to spend with my family. But it's also my time to reload, just recover from exhaustion. So, if I don't get a few hours sleep on that Saturday before I get August, then I'm dragging my feet with him. Again, I don't see a way around it, I just try to let him know as much as possible that he is loved. And I haven't made any more children because I didn't know when I was 26 that this was so hard. When I was 26 I kind of figured, "Hey, you just do it." I mean, God, the ignorance of youth.
Fatherhood is great, though?
아버지의 자격은 중대하다, 그러나?
Oh it's wonderful. I mean, I'd love to have more children. But I tell you, dating is really hard because I work all week and then weekends, I want to see my son. I mean, sometimes there's press and stuff on the weekends that you can't do during the week and I got to bed at around seven or eight on Sunday night. So I have Saturday night. It's my one night. And I have four Saturdays a month. And two of those I have August. So I only have two nights to go out on a date. And usually one of those nights I want to see my friends. So its like, "What girl is going to go out one night a month with you? Who's going to put up with that?" It was easy doing Dark Angel and going out with Jessica [Alba] because obviously we worked on the same show and we lived together and that works. But it's hard when that ends. But I remember once I was working in Australia and Jessica was doing Honey in Toronto and she's at the MTV Australia Video Music Awards and, you know...
How was it seeing her again at the TV Week Logies?
그것은 어떻게 텔레비젼 주Logies에 그녀를 다시 보고 있었는가?
I hadn't seen her for a couple of years. It had been years since I'd talked to her. And, yeah, it was interesting to have that moment of, "Oh, how are you?" when you see someone that you've spent a great deal of time with. I mean, we spent a few years together, but we spent an intense amount of time together. And you don't catch up on that in a fleeting moment on the red carpet.
How did you approach it then?
너에 의하여 어떻게 그것이 그때 접근했는가?
I said whatever I said, probably, "You’re doing great." Or "Good onya!" And she said, "Shut up" and hit me in the arm. No, it was nice to see her. Clearly it was a long time ago and there are no ghosts. It's not a haunted area. At least for me. it's not — I can't speak for her, but I don't believe it is. She's in a very happy relationship and has moved on. But because [our meeting was] attended by a certain amount of curiosity that does heighten it in an unusual and awkward and false way. Really, if you were just walking down the street and you bumped into your ex at the mall it would be more like, "Oh, hey." But when you're backstage at an awards show in a foreign country and everybody's watching and then you get asked about it on the couch with Hamish and Andy and then Fifi Box asks you about it onstage — is there any clean way out of that? Probably not. But I look forward to seeing what she's going to do with her career.
Do you read your own press?
I try not to look at any press. Initially I looked just to make sure I didn't do anything dreadful. I mean, I have learned a couple of things not to talk about. As it goes there are a few, "Boohoo, go cry in a bag of money" stories. Like, "Are you kidding me? Are you actually moaning about this?" Talking about working long hours and blah blah blah is a dangerous thing to get into because I'm living a dream life with a dream job and, even though there are some downsides, it's amazing. Especially being on a show like NCIS that's actually really well received around the world. It's a charmed little time and I cherish it. I know that it goes away, so I don't pretend to be in charge of it anymore. It just happened. It's like a beautiful day, it could rain tomorrow, but I am enjoying the weather right now.
Sydney must be sentimental for you because you landed the job on NCIS when you were here a few years back...
That's right. I was staying at the Quay Grand Hotel in Circular Quay. My agent called me from the States and said, "Look out the window. See the Park Hyatt right across? That's where [NCIS creator] Don Bellisario is staying. Call over there and see if you can get him." So I called the Park Hyatt and asked for Don Bellisario's room and they actually put me through. Then there was a very funny conversation where he didn't quite understand who I was or why I was calling, but he invited me to dinner after I explained that I was an actor, working with Peter Bogdanovich on a TV special in the city, and had heard he was here and wanted to meet him. So it was all rather unorthodox and it continued along those unorthodox lines. But we got along famously and in the end he said, "I think you should be Tony DiNozzo."
Did you have a hand in creating the way Tony is onscreen?
The character that existed on the page was very different in the beginning and even at the time Don kept saying to me, "I don't know where this character is going." So we worked really hard the first year to try to find DiNozzo. And boy, did we find him. [Laughs.]
How did that happen for you?
It was kind of a slow boil. Filmmaking is a collaborative thing — there are 20 people directly involved in making sure things go smoothly in a scene and you can screw all of them up with one scratch of a microphone, by going off your mark, by turning out of the light. And I've always been the kind of [person] who wants to make sure everyone's happy. I decided to approach this job — not to p**s everybody off but, again, I didn't warn anybody either, so I probably did p**s people off — but I decided that he was irreverent. And he didn't care about all that stuff, so I couldn't care about all that stuff. It was kind of an exercise in random freedom. And it worked because what ended up happening is that people were furious. The other actors were furious, the sound department... I mean, there were people who didn't know me from my previous jobs who thought this is how I must always be.
And are you?
No. That's why I never trust meeting anybody on the red carpet. Because if someone's horrible to you, you think they're just terrible. But really they're being led around and they're probably in a terrible mood and maybe their wife just left them for their best friend — you don't know what pre-existing conditions there are for the person you meet. But having said all that, Tony DiNozzo was created from a carefree and irreverent place, so it's kind of the best job I've ever had. And the only character that I really truly feel like I had a strong hand in making the right choice for.
So people have realised you're not really a troublemaker in real life now?
I think some people have realised it and other people never realised it. But it was about being unapologetic in your job. Which is how DiNozzo is. I just decided not to worry about everybody else's feelings because they're big boys and girls and we're all here to do a professional job, so we're going to get on with it. And those who don't think I'm being very professional or nice? Well, it's not my problem. Some of the people in the beginning were very concerned. Now that we're 100 episodes along, people understand what's going on.
Has anybody lost it with you on set?
Sasha Alexander — who played Kate in the first two seasons — used to get furious with me. We're really good friends, but she used to get really p***ed off because I would change what I was doing in the scene as I went. She was like, "Help me out here!" And I'd be like, "I'm experimenting." And she's like,"Well it's not a laboratory, Mr Hyde!" And then it became part of the show that she was frustrated with me, but that frustration was born out of the working dynamic.
Didn't Gibbs' [Mark Harmon] habit of hitting DiNozzo on the head come from you making Mark furious with you on set?
Gibbs hitting me on the back of the head was from me screwing around during filming and that was actually Mark hitting Michael, not Gibbs hitting DiNozzo. And the crew laughed and it got shown in the dailies and then it got cut into the show and then the head slap became this thing. It really was born out of frustration with my not behaving.
Fatherhood is great, though?
아버지의 자격은 중대하다, 그러나?
Oh it's wonderful. I mean, I'd love to have more children. But I tell you, dating is really hard because I work all week and then weekends, I want to see my son. I mean, sometimes there's press and stuff on the weekends that you can't do during the week and I got to bed at around seven or eight on Sunday night. So I have Saturday night. It's my one night. And I have four Saturdays a month. And two of those I have August. So I only have two nights to go out on a date. And usually one of those nights I want to see my friends. So its like, "What girl is going to go out one night a month with you? Who's going to put up with that?" It was easy doing Dark Angel and going out with Jessica [Alba] because obviously we worked on the same show and we lived together and that works. But it's hard when that ends. But I remember once I was working in Australia and Jessica was doing Honey in Toronto and she's at the MTV Australia Video Music Awards and, you know...
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