CBS’s lengthy-operating army police procedural drama sequence “NCIS” has featured a myriad of actors because the present first started airing all the best way again in 2003. As we all know, although, typically issues do not work out within the tv enterprise as they’re imagined to, and sure characters may need an expiration date, whether or not supposed or not. Within the case of English actor Duane Henry, his departure from “NCIS” was partly resulting from an unlucky and tragic circumstance but additionally his ahead-trying, bold worldview, which has been driving the star’s profession ever since he grew to become knowledgeable actor.
Commercial
Henry performed the beloved character Clayton Dante Reeves on “NCIS” for practically three years (in seasons 13, 14, and 15) between 2016 and 2018. Reeves was an MI6 liaison officer who incessantly helped the NCIS Main Case Response Workforce regardless of being assigned to the Worldwide Desk on the group. Sadly, his days got here to an finish when he was killed by Military Specialist Kent Marshall (Mark Engelhardt) in season 15, episode 21, “One Step Ahead.”
The choice to put in writing Henry’s character off was truly a mutual one between him and the present’s producers, as he shared in a 2018 interview with TVLine. On the similar time, this determination was itself the results of a a lot sadder flip of occasions.
Showrunner Gary Glasberg’s passing sealed Reeves and Henry’s destiny
As Henry recalled within the interview, his character was the brainchild of government producer and author Gary Glasberg, who grew to become the sequence’ showrunner in 2011. After his premature dying in 2017 — proper after season 14 started — on the age of fifty, the “NCIS” writers merely had no clue what to do with Reeves lengthy-time period. “I used to be feeling a little bit of panic in individuals’s faces. I might inform that they had been not likely positive [what the future held],” Henry defined. “I sort of received my bearings collectively and thought, ‘What is going on to occur now with the character?'” he added.
Commercial
Ruminating on his character’s destiny, it did not take the actor lengthy to make up his thoughts about leaving the present and beginning to deal with different initiatives. “[‘NCIS’] was a life changer, a recreation changer for me, and one thing I am going to take with me without end and ever,” Henry remarked. However he additionally admitted to having “idle thumbs,” including that on the finish of 2017, “I appeared round quite a bit and began questioning issues … My mind begins to go to different locations.”
Certainly, as soon as Henry departed from the sequence, he instantly received his head within the recreation and jumped into his subsequent position. He was quickly after forged as one of many leads within the 2018 Christmas rom-com “A Gingerbread Romance,” which he rapidly adopted up by becoming a member of the Marvel Cinematic Universe to play a Talos-Kree soldier in Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck’s “Captain Marvel.” After that, he returned to tv, briefly showing in “What Simply Occurred??!” after which starring in 2021’s “Mistletoe in Montana.”
Commercial