News und Aktuelles über Michael

Posted: 18.04.2004 11:21

Komplette Screencaps von Michael's Rolle als Robert Wagner in der Natalie Wood Mini Series findet man hier

Posted: 07.06.2004 13:36

Zwei Mini Artikel von DAR

I.

From People Magazine, June 7, 2004, Chatter section (back page):

(There's a little picture of MW, too.)

FREE ASSOCIATION with Navy NCIS’s MICHAEL WEATHERLY

Mark Harmon: On NCIS we call Mark’s hair the silver yarmulke.

An Elizabeth Jagger-Sean Lennon breakup: If they don’t want to stay together, they should donate a sperm and an egg to civilization.

John Ramsey running for office: Some ideas are just bad.

Ashton and Demi’s one-year anniversary: I’m a fan of the May-December thing.

Jennifer Lopez: Shouldn’t she be by herself for awhile? Maybe this is a rationalization to get J.Lo alone so I can date her.

The worst pickup line I’ve ever heard: Aren’t you the guy from Alias?

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People website, accessed thru AOL:

On the Job with Michael Weatherly
May 24, 2004

Love the tough guys on Navy N.C.I.S.? Well, we hate to shatter your image, but they're not so tough. "Mark (Harmon) and I, sometimes we start to giggle, when we're supposed to look each other in the eye and be kind of tough," costar Michael Weatherly tells us. "It's hard for the editors to find bits with us not laughing with tears in our eyes." Hmm. But there is one thing about which Harmon – PEOPLE's Sexiest Man Alive in 1986 – is tough: punctuality. "You have to be on time," Weatherly says. "It's a Mark Harmon show, and he's a very punctual guy. He really feels it's out of respect for the process and all the people who work hard every day, that the actors should really endeavor to be on time. It's just the Mark Harmon way." Don't be late for the show's season finale on Tuesday – you've been warned.

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Posted: 04.07.2004 13:06

Neue News:

Smoke and fire: Another movie is filming in Sacramento. "Her Minor Thing" is a nutty romantic comedy about a TV reporter who falls in love with a Sac firefighter. "It's unusual because it's set in Sacramento, as opposed to using Sacramento as a stand-in for somewhere else," said Lucy Steffens, film wrangler for the Sacramento convention bureau. The TV reporter thinks his microphone is off when he announces his love of the firefighter - including her virginal status. Well, the mic is open. Directing is Charlie Matthau, son of the late comedic genius Walter Matthau. Estella Warren, Kathy Griffin and Michael Weatherly star. All are astonishingly handsome. ...

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The capital city is the backdrop for a new romantic comedy called "Her Minor Thing," which is directed, produced and co-written by Folsom resident Jim Meyers.

"Sacramento is a great place to make a movie. It's a surprise more people don't make movies here," Meyers said.

"Her Minor Thing" it is a romantic comedy that stars Estella Warren, from "The Cooler" and "Kangaroo Jack," Christian Kane, from "Just Married" and "Angel," and Michael Weatherly, from "Dark Angel."

Warren plays a computer technician for the Sacramento Metro Fire Department.

"It's really exciting to be doing it. It took a long time," Meyers said. "It's basically about what happens to this professional woman when her life turns chaotic. ... That leads to a battle of the sexes."

The entire production is being filmed locally. There are scenes from Raley Field, the Firehouse Restaurant in Old Sacramento and the Hyatt hotel. Scenes were also shot at several fire stations, in east Sacramento and midtown.

Sacramento production company Crescent Moon Films says the movie is a hit at home.

"We were able to secure about 95 percent of the funding from local interests. I believe the community has been really supportive of this project," said Crescent Moon spokeswoman Vikki Wagner.

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Posted: 17.07.2004 13:56

Michael bei Craig Kilbourne

Posted: 10.08.2004 20:50

Interview mit Michael bei "Entertainment Tonight" 08/04/04

Posted: 31.08.2004 14:28

Zwei neue Interviews mit Michael:

Star Turn 8/04

Viedeoland View 08/18

und Bilder vom Hollywood Stars Softball Game 08/07

Posted: 27.09.2004 19:50

NCISFans.com wrote:

'NCIS': Fun as it Looks
(Sunday, September 26 12:02 AM)
By Kate O'Hare

Considering the size of Hollywood egos, it's unusual when a creator doesn't want his name attached to his new show. But that was just the case with Don Bellisario when his new CBS drama hit the airwaves last fall. He also hated the title-- "Navy NCIS" (NCIS already means Naval Criminal Investigative Service. If you say it all out loud, it is pretty funny).
Bellisario's successful "JAG" -- starring David James Elliott as a Navy pilot turned military lawyer -- was used as a launching pad for the new show, which Bellisario hoped could forge ahead on its own. But CBS entertainment chief Les Moonves liked to keep the word "Navy" to appeal to the large "JAG" audience, especially since "JAG" was shifting to Friday, yielding the Tuesday slot to the newcomer.

"I understand why Les wanted to do it," Bellisario says. "He wanted to get the 'JAG' fan base to watch 'NCIS,' which they do."

On the other hand, the move did little to woo over those who didn't already love "JAG."
"'JAG' is aimed for a specific audience," Bellisario says. "'NCIS' is designed for not only that audience, but a much younger, broader audience. Especially labeling it a 'JAG' spin-off, which it wasn't. There isn't anybody from 'JAG' in it.

"And it was promoted as 'from the producer and creator of "JAG" ' - which I'm probably the only producer/creator who said, 'Please don't say that.' But he did it. Now we have an agreement - this year is different. The 'Navy' is gone off of it, it's just 'NCIS.'"

The re-titled action drama launches its second season on Tuesday, Sept. 28, and for anyone who hasn't seen it, it's really not "JAG."

"They run a crisp, clean, neat, organized, military show," cast member Michael Weatherly says. "Our show is fast edits, sloppy, loose. I'm chewing gum. I say 'Babe' and 'Chick.'"

Mark Harmon stars in "NCIS" as tough, disciplined Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs, who directs his team to investigate crimes that can be connected to Navy or Marine personnel.

Under his command are womanizing, wisecracking Special Agent Tony DiNozzo (Weatherly), an ex-homicide detective; whip-smart Special Agent Kate Todd (Sasha Alexander), who's ex-Secret Service; goth-chick forensics specialist Abby Sciuto (Pauley Perrette), whose fashion sense masks a sharp mind and wit; and Dr. Donald "Ducky" Mallard (David McCallum), a British forensic pathologist with a long and varied history (and plenty of stories to tell from it).

New to the team full-time is Special Agent Timothy McGee (Sean Murray), a computer-whiz MIT grad who's confident at a keyboard but unsure in the field.

While "NCIS" does share a fascination with forensics with CBS' "CSI" franchise, the agents also investigate crimes that don't depend on science, and they do it with a smile in their hearts.

"It's the humor that separates it from the other shows," Bellisario says. "It's the character development that separates it from the other shows, and we're going to continue that."

Weatherly came to "NCIS" off a two-year stint as a crusading, wheelchair-bound journalist on the gloomy, post-apocalyptic Fox series "Dark Angel." Along with trading drizzly Vancouver for sun-baked Valencia, Calif., he's also playing a very different character.

"I was playing a dark, intense character who was brooding and had no sense of humor," Weatherly says. "Fun wasn't the operative word. With this show, that is our credo - make it fun, make it interesting.

"We make crazy choices in scenes. We all have a blast trying to crack each other up. One time, David McCallum made this choice to wear a Band-Aid on his forehead because we had just been through an explosion, so Harmon passed out Band-Aids to everyone. So when we started shooting the scene, we're all wearing bandages on our heads, and McCallum didn't notice."

But just because DiNozzo is chasing skirts, Abby is bopping to punk music in her lab, or Ducky is off on some long spiel about his adventures in Burma or wherever, that doesn't mean that the subject matter isn't serious.

The season opener features Abigail Breslin ("Signs") as a blind girl who is kidnapped along with her mother to pressure her father (David Keith), a Naval officer in the Pentagon.

In addition, Bellisario says, "Speaking of 'Signs,' we have an episode where a farmer comes out to his field and finds a Marine Cobra helicopter sitting in the middle of a crop circle. It's fully equipped, fully armed, and nobody's in it."

Bellisario is particularly proud of a sweeps episode starring real-life decorated World War II hero Charles Durning as a troubled Medal of Honor winner who confesses to murdering his buddy on Iwo Jima half a century before.

"He can't remember why he did it," Bellisario says. "He just knows he did it. They have to unravel it, and Gibbs won't let it go. He doesn't believe he did it. And Charles Durning is brilliant."

Among those who did watch the show last year, there was some concern about Mark Harmon's unflattering haircut, a sort of grown-out Marine style.

Bellisario recalls, "He said to me, 'Do you think I'd wear my hair like this? Hell, no. This is the way Gibbs would wear his hair.' But you're going to see Gibbs loosen up a little bit. I finally talked Mark into letting his hair be a little less severe."

"This year," Weatherly reports, "it looks more normal. He doesn't look like he's a member of a cult anymore

Posted: 16.10.2004 09:45

NCISGermany.de wrote:

Jezebel Magazine Sep. 04

Code Couture

By Beth Weitzman

They are successful, hard-working, sexy and single. On the brink of season two of their hit show Navy NCIS, the pressure is on. I had a chance to chat with Sasha Alexander and Michael Weatherly, two of the most down-to-earth celebs I have ever met. They shared some insight into what it takes to be successful in the biz, and it ain't easy. We also spoke about the fun stuff...dating, fashion, shopping, camaraderie among the cast and some very entertaining stories. Read on.

JEZ: With the second season of Navy NCIS premiering in just a few weeks, you guys must be super busy filming. Tell me about a "typical day." Ladies first...

Sasha Alexander: Well, yesterday was Monday and I started my day at 4:30 in the morning. I had to be at work at 5 :30 a.m., and I got home at midnight. But that's not typical. That was a brutal day. Today I started at 10 a.m., and I'll be here 'til about midnight.

Michael Weatherly: Generally, it's a 14-hour work day, and you have a half-hour break for lunch in the middle, where we all eat in a little cafeteria next to the stage. Typically, I'll get home at around 9 p.m.

JEZ: That's a long day by anyone's standards. Do you find it hard to rally the next day?

SA: So hard. I have to be honest, Beth, keeping your enthusiasm and your energy is really hard. And when I took the job last year, I had never really experienced anything quite so difficult. (Laughs) I just didn't really know what I got myself into. You know, I think the first few months you have a lot of-energy, and then your motor starts running out. Then it becomes about healthy eating, getting as much sleep as possible and being really, really organized about your time. Unfortunately, that means learning to say no sometimes to dinner with your friends or everything else because you just don't have it in you. The upside is that I do what I love to do.

MW: Sure, we get tired and a little run-down, but I wake up every day and I'm excited. I started acting when I was 21, and I have a lot of friends who didn't find their calling 'til a lot later. You know, working with Kate Beckinsale and Chloe Sevigny on The Last Days of Disco.. .I've had an absolute blast. And working with James Cameron.. .how did that happen? I don't know. But somehow, through all that, I seem to have not selfdestructed. And I have my son and I feel like a really, really lucky guy. I guess I have to just keep reminding myself of that. And I also feel like I'm just starting. I feel like I'mjust beginning to see what I can do. And how fantastic, in a career, to feel like I'm just getting into the interesting part.

JEZ: Sure doesn't leave much time for a personal life...

SA: Yeah. I mean, gosh, personal life, please. Mark [Harmon] is married, but Michael and I just laugh. There are points where we were like, 'Oh my God, we have no life.' But then you learn to adjust around that and you learn to make it work, and hopefully we'll meet somebody who's supportive enough and gets it.

MW: Most nights, what I do is come home, and as I mentioned, I have a son, who's 8 years old named August, and he lives out here in California so I see him on the weekends. But I'll try and, if! can, say good night to him each night. And then I will work for usually an hour or two on the next day's work and any other projects I'm trying to motivate myself to get done. (Laughs)

JEZ: The cast is definitely comprised of an interesting group of talented actors.

MW: Oh, it's totally crazy, and a lot of younger people have no idea that David McCallum was a sex symbol, a huge international star. Boys and girls had posters of McCallum in their bedrooms growing up. He was a big, giant, TV icon.
Back then he played a spy, and so now David sort of has this little twinkle in his eye because, you know, he's obviously lived the life. (Laughs) And he's the most prepared actor I've ever seen in my life. Everyone has these specifically well-drawn characters and we all are a contrast to each other, so it doesn't get boring. And that's what Don Bellisario does really well. With Magnum, P.I., you had Higgins and the dogs and then you had Tom Selleck trying to get the Ferrari from Higgins... I was a huge Magnum, P.I. fan because of the interaction of the characters and their differences. I think there's a similar tone on NCIS, where you know, Ducky is down in the medical examiner's office going on all these tangents, and Abby is down in the lab being the goth chic with all the science and the punk rock attitude. So I think there's a little something for everyone. I'm endlessly fascinated by it. Mark Harmon, at the end oflast year said, 'You've had far too good of a time doing this, haven't you?' And I said, 'Yep.' And he said, 'Is this the best job you've ever had?' And I said, '100 percent, by far, the best job. I could never even have dreamed that the job would be this much fun.

JEZ: Are either of you like your Secret Agent characters in real life?

MW: Um, I don't know... (Laughs) I think I probably have some elements of Anthony in me.When I was 13, for instance, which I remem.ber very well, I wanted to be a spy. I mean, what would be more fun Ithan to go and be James Bond? So, what I am doing now is sort of a twist, because my guy thinks he's James Bond, but everyone else looks at him and thinks he's a moron.

SA: For me, not at all, so that aspect of it is really fun to me. The only lart that I think is like Kate is some of the banter that I do with Mark nd Michael.I think I have a sense of humor, but I can tend to have a dry sensibility, and I'll come back with quick things, so a lot of that banter that happens between us, I don't think that fast, but that kind of sense of humor is the
only thing Ishare with her. Other than that, I don't know. I like her wardrobe. (Laughs)

JEZ: It must be neat to portray completely different characters, depending on the project you're working on.

MW: Right, like on Dark Angel I was a very earnest, underground freedom fighter, never smiled, just a very dry sense of humor, a very unironic stance as a character. But at NCIS, which is an absolute blast to do every day, my guy is like a 13 year old boy with a gun and a badge. And it's like James Bond and girls, girls, girls. He just can't believe how much he loves his job, and every day he gets to go in and try and find the bad guy and, you know, if he can possibly get a pretty girl's phone number, then that's a bonus.

SA: I think we find a little bit of ourselves in every role we do. Kate's different than any other role I've played because she's in law enforcement. I mean, she's an ex-Secret Service agent who's chosen basically to live a life of solving crime, walking around with a gun, protecting people. That is something I would never choose to do in my life. It's not an area that I would feel confident in. And so it gives you a certain confidence, it gives you a certain way of being that is so much more comfortable, like not fearful of anything, and that's something that I'm not used to.

JEZ: How many takes is typical to complete one scene?

MW: What will end up being two minutes of screen time can take up to five hours to shoot. The reason isn't because we're sitting in our trailer eating bonbons and drinking champagne and talking to JEZEBEL magazine.. .

JEZ: Of course.

MW: That's just today. (Laughs) It's more repetitive, because we shoot from so many different angles, we do the scene maybe 25 or 30 times. And you know, each take has its own special flavor. (Laughs)

JEZ: I know you have both spent some time doing feature films as well. Are you thinking about doing any additional films?

SA: Absolutely. This year we had a very short break and I was supposed to go do this little movie and truthfully, I backed out and was like, 'You know what, I want to go travel.' You know, when I'm not working I really love to travel. I love to leave Los Angeles, and I just need to travel. As far as future films, if things come my way and my schedule permits, I'll definitely do it. If not, it will wait until my hiatus. With movies it's really about picking the right roles, and I certainly don't want to work just to work. I want to find something special. I have a film right now that I'm hoping to produce and star in next April on my break, so we'll see.

MW: I did a movie over the summer, my hiatus, in Sacramento with Estella Warren called Her Minor Thing. Her minor thing is that Estella's a virgin, and I'm her boyfriend. So that was my summer vacation.

JEZ: OK, so I know you're both currently single, yes?

MW: Yes, I am currently a single human being. (Smiling)

JEZ: So tell me, what's your type?

MW: I really don't know, I mean I've dated and I was married briefly and, you know, I was engaged for several years to Jessica Alba, my costar from Dark Angel, so I've had different experiences with people from all different countries and walks of life. I find people fascinating, and I find women more fascinating than men... I'll tell you that much. Urn, it's a very difficult question to answer. You know, obviously, there has to be some kind of click.And, you know, that's a rare thing.

SA: Well, now that I've grown up (laughs) let's just say, I'm really looking for a man who's smart and has a great sense of humor and a great outlook on life. And, I think more importantly, somebody who's really supportive and understanding because I think in this day and age, when women work, and they work as much as maybe I'm working, it's really tough to find a guy who really gets it. So I really need someone who loves what they do as much as I do and is totally supportive of my success and isn't intimidated or competitive or any of that crap, because I don't really have time for that.

JEZ: What's your thought on dating someone in the industry compared to not in the industry?

SA: The advantages are that they understand your business and what you go through and certainly understand your schedule and the demands of it. The disadvantage is that, like anything, it's hard to be in the same thing. In the end it really doesn't matter, it just matters on the person. I mean there's advantages and disadvantages to both. So just being with somebody who has something else to bring to the table is really important to me. If he happens to be in the same business but is not the kind of person that is obsessed with it, then that's great.

MW: Well, I've dated sporadically over the last year of being single, but I really haven't dated anybody in that year who's been in the industry. Everyone's been outside of it, and right now at least, it's easier (laughs) because the conversation kind of gets to a dead-end pretty quickly when, you know, you're talking to somebody who knows all the same things you know. But somebody who's a chemist or a lawyer or some other walk of life, it's always, to me, more interesting.

JEZ: Sasha, we know that Michael has dated, and was even engaged to a formerco-star. Could you ever imagine dating a co-star?

SA: That is so impossible! (Laughs) Um, sure, you know what, if you're off on some tropical island shooting a movie and you're gonna be done with that forever, maybe. But when you're on a television series you could potentially be on for years, it's the absolute worst idea. I mean, I think my co-stars are hot... but you know that would be the most ridiculous thing ever. It's just a really bad idea. We tease Michael about his past endeavors, too. Because it's just a bad idea.

JEZ: Michael, do you find it difficult to decipher the people who might be interested in dating you because of who you are?

MW: No, (laughs) I find it's just the opposite. I think most smart women are very skeptical of someone like me.

JEZ: Especially when they see the show...

MW: They could either see the show or they could just kind of make their own assessment based on the generalities of somebody who's an actor, who's divorced, who has a kid.. .and obviously, to anyone who's got their radar up, you know, there's a few flags on the play. So I don't come in clean, so to speak; I'm a pretty messy thing to contend with. That skepticism is healthy and well-warranted, I would say. (Laughs) And the other thing is that frankly, having this job at this particular time, I'm much happier just dating and no looking too seriously at things... Having said that, that usually means I'm just moments away from falling deeply in love with someone completely wrong for me!

JEZ: Isn't that the truth? That's always the case.

MW: I wonder who she is... (Laughs)

JEZ: Keep us posted. Well, I'll let you guys off that topic. Let's talk fashion... what's your fancy?

MW: Right now, I really enjoy looks from the mid-' 60s era. That sort of pre-hippie but post-' 50s. You know, there's just a little edge to it, you know, the [Frank] Sinatra in the mid-'60s, and [Sean] Connery and all those guys, the kind of mod.. .but anyway, I'm drawn to that with some of the wardrobe that I doon the show. I try to do a skinny tie with the lapels and try to do the thin pant legs and kind of get it working a little bit, which, again is David McCallum's era. I'm also a sucker for Prada and actually a lot of the Ralph Lauren stuff.

SA: I like classic stuff, but with an edge. I am big into purses and shoes. I love Prada's shoes, and I'm a big Manolo Blahnik shoe fanatic. But as far as clothing goes, I'd have to say I'm more of a Gucci girl. I really love Rebecca Taylor's stuff for fall. I love to combine a really cool Dolce & Gabbana sweater (they always have these really great chunky turtlenecks) with jeans or a mini. I'm definitely more classic, but I like funking things up. I love these new jeans, True Religion; they are low cut with cute pockets and are stretchy. I also like the feminine trend I am seeing a lot. I try to stay away from real trendy items, I am more into a particular fabric than a designer.

JEZ: Where do you like to shop?

MW: I've got to say Fred Segal's pretty fantastic, so is Ron Herman, James Perceis fantastic and John Varvatos has crazy-good stuff. I enjoy looks in terms of time periods. That's always kind of the leader with me. When I was in college, I got way into the 1940s, and I was dressing up in these' 40s suits and stuff and listening to a lot of Louis Armstrong and Glenn Miller and bands of that era. It was always something.

SA: I either go to Neiman Marcus or Barneys, I seem to do two department stores, or there's three boutiques in L.A. that I go to all the time and they're great. One is called the Tryst. Vogue just wrote it up. It's in Studio City, which is like a booming little area for great boutiques. I feel like in L.A. everyone has the same stuff. I'm kind of over it. And also Lisa Rinna has a store called Belle Gray, also in Studio City and actually, you know what, there's another, even better, I'll tell you-Dari. And then there's this store called Planet Blue, they have one in Santa Monica and in Malibu, and there's a store called Madison. These are some of my favorites. If I had to narrow it down I would say Madison, Tryst and Dari are my favorites.

JEZ: That's some good scoop, thanks for sharing! Sasha, you grew up in L.A. right, and have you lived here your entire life?

SA: I never lived anywhere else, no. I've stayed long periods of time in New York and in London, but that's about it. I didn't grow up in the L.A. that I live in now, in Hollywood. I grew up on the beach and so it was a very different, very beachy kind of mellow. Now I live in the city.

JEZ: Michael, where did you grow up?

MW: In Connecticut. I was there until I was 15. From there I went to boarding school. ..1 went to a place called Brooks School in North Andover, Mass.

JEZ: How did you like boarding school?

MW: Well, it's not your normal experience. Campus was hundreds of rniles from my family. Every morning, six days a week, I would dress in a coat and tie and read the New York Times and went to class at age 15. It's not like a normal American high school existence where it's keggers on the weekends and stuff. So you spend a lot of time by yourself and you build some adult skills, I guess. As a result, I'm fascinated by movies like She's All That and any high-school teen movie, even in the '80s like The Breakfast Club...

JEZ: Those are classics.

MW: Yeah, I was living more of a School Ties/Dead Poets Society kind of life. I didn't own a pair of blue jeans until I was 18 years old. It made me really curious about the rest of the world. Not just American high school, but about the world at large and how people experience things. Because my experience was so specific and so, kind of cloistered and removed.

JEZ: Have you ever been to Atlanta?

MW: I have. Years ago I tried to get a car and go on some sort of long, wild journey to find Julia Roberts and REM, and I think I ended up just getting a speeding ticket. I spent sometime in Buckhead, and I had a fantastic time roaming around bar to bar. But I haven't been there in a long time. I'm due for a trip.

SA: One of my really good friends from high school lives in Atlanta.

JEZ: Well, I think it's time for a trip you two. We'll take you out JEZ style.

SA: That would be fun.

MW: It's a deal. My dad lives in Jamaica in the winter, and I always fly through Atlanta on my way to Jamaica.

JEZ: I hope to see you both again soon. -BW

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Posted: 18.12.2004 13:59

www.ncisfans.com wrote:

Summer Camp Paid off for Actor

By Luaine Lee | Knight Ridder Tribune News Service

HOLLYWOOD -- When actor Michael Weatherly was 12 years old, his parents sent him away to camp called "Camp Challenge." His mother wanted to toughen him up, he says.

"It was a three-week duration, and I had to canoe, fight, build my own ax, learn to read a topographic map, compass and we had something called '24-hour survival' where they left us in the woods alone for 24 hours and you had to find food, build a lean-to. That changed me. It either changed me or it broke me," he says.

"But when I showed up [at camp] I was wearing a white turtleneck and white bell-bottoms. And I was from Connecticut and playing tennis at the country club. When I came back I was wearing hiking boots and blue jeans and I'd spent some time with some interesting people," he says.

It turns out it was a profitable move in more ways than one. Now as the wiseacre Tony DiNozzo on CBS' NCIS, Weatherly has to combine those skills along with his impish sense of humor and acting talent.

"He's a federal agent but he has very little regard for toeing the line of political correctness or anything like that," he says.

"I love playing somebody who was kind of a rebel without a cause," Weatherly says.

Weatherly, who played Logan on Dark Angel, the evil ex-husband on Jesse, and Cooper on daytime drama Loving, broke family tradition when he became an actor.

"I grew up in Connecticut, went to an all-boys school and then went away to boarding school," he says.

"So I grew up in a very narrow world. . . . I felt that I didn't know enough about the world at large, and I'm a people-watcher. I love to do that. I wanted to learn about other people. And so it's my endless fascination with what makes people tick."

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Weatherly Grows into his Role as Tony on NCIS

The hunky Michael Weatherly, who stars as goof-ball Tony DiNozzo on CBS, "NCIS," did his undergraduate work on a soap for three years. It proved a steady income, something that’s difficult for actors to forsake.

But Weatherly says he read an article about Ted Danson, Alec Baldwin and Kevin Bacon - all of whom had served tours-of-duty on soaps. "Two things I pulled from that article," says Weatherly. "One was to leave after three years, and the other was save your money. While I was working on that soap, I was taking the subway to work, lived in a very inexpensive sublet and didn’t spend a dime. When the time came to leave, I could afford to leave. You never know. I thought I would just jump on a TV show, do that for a few years and then jump into movies. That seemed to be what everybody else did," he shrugs.

"When you read about the successful people you don’t realize that 99 percent of the world doesn’t have that success. I saw how hard it was, and also that I didn’t know who I was, so it was very difficult to play a character because characters are just an extension of a facet of your own understanding about life. I still had more questions than answers - not that I have a lot of answers now - but 10 years after the fact, I’m a little more lucid."

He's in the game all right as the Italian, wise-cracking DiNozzo, a fine foil to Mark Harmon's Gibbs, a by-the-book ex-Marine who runs the investigative team on the show.
Weatherly, is Irish, a blue-blood who grew up in Connecticut, the son of the exclusive importer-distributor of Swiss Army knives and a hospital administrator. His parents divorced when he was 15, and he is the product of private schools, tennis lessons and what he calls ''a narrow view of things.''

Today he has his 8-year old son, August, with him. Weatherly and August's mother, actress Amelia Heinle, are divorced, but share custody. Today Weatherly has planned a surprise horseback riding venture.

While Weatherly may be in the game now, it wasn't always so. He costarred with former sweetheart, Jessica Alba, in the cult favorite "Dark Angel.'' When that show was canceled, he says, ''I didn't know what to do. I hadn't really thought about it. I went and did this David Kelly show called 'Girl's Club' that got canceled before it started airing. That was a Fox show. The show I did before "Dark Angel" was "Significant Others."

"So I was on three Fox shows in a row that got canceled in the span of four years. That means something, I guess, in the world of numbers. There's only so many chips on the table, and I started to panic a little bit about what I was doing."

Luckily Peter Bogdanovich cast Weatherly as a young Robert Wagner in the special, "The Mystery of Natalie Wood." He was filming that in Australia - his sandy hair dyed black - when he heard about "NCIS."

Though he didn't think he was anything like DiNozzo, he relished the challenge, he says."As I got into it, I felt like he was a big kid and had this unbridled enthusiasm. And he wasn't so much a jaded cynic, misogynist guy as much as he was playful - more like Han Solo, a guy who's running around."

Though Weatherly, 36, became an actor against his family's wishes, he's learning to forgive himself. "The older I get, the more satisfying and gratifying the job is. Initially you just need a job. You just want to work, so you'll do anything." You'll eat a Snickers bar, you'll do what it takes," he says.

He did eat a Snicker's bar in a commercial and eventually worked his way into the movies. His first film was "Meet Wally Sparks" with Rodney Dangerfield followed by "The Last Days of Disco" and "Gun Shy."

Still there was a period, after August was born, when Weatherly considered quitting. "I didn’t work for about six months, and when you're worried about somebody else completely it makes it very difficult to go into a room and (audition.) It's so important being a father that I didn't see the value in acting for a little while. But then it came back, and I realized it's important for me."

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Posted: 13.01.2005 16:47

The Hollywood Reporter and The Museum of Television & Radio Host a Cocktail Reception in Honor of TV's Greatest Hits! 9/9/04

W Magazine Hollywood Yard Sale 09/12/04

2nd Annual Entertainment Weekly Pre-Emmy Party 09/19/04

Esquire House Hosts Young Hollywood "Rock The Vote" Party 10/13/04

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Posted: 29.01.2005 13:56

CBS/UPN Winter Press Tour Party 18/01/05

mit Serienkollegin Pauley Perrette

TCA-CBS Winter 2005 Press Tour 18/01/05

Mit Serienkollegen Pauley Perrette und Mark Harmon

Posted: 03.02.2006 00:22

Post Emmy Party 18/09/05

source: wireimage.com

Posted: 27.05.2006 23:06

Music Video Production Association's 15th Annual MVPA Awards at the Orpheum Theatre on May 11, 2006 in Los Angeles, California.

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Posted: 27.05.2006 23:09

eilien wrote:

Music Video Production Association's 15th Annual MVPA Awards at the Orpheum Theatre on May 11, 2006 in Los Angeles, California.

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Die Links funzen nicht! Zumindest nicht bei mir wink

Posted: 27.05.2006 23:18

Hm, bei mir funktionieren sie. Möchte sich vielleicht noch jemand anderes daran versuchen?

für Robert:
1: http://cache.gettyimages.com/xc/57590028.jpg?v=1&c=MS_GINS&k=2&d=17A4AD9FDB9CF1939847EC77F5F8D1CE3A3DDAB17D03CFA6

2: http://cache.gettyimages.com/xc/57589882.jpg?v=1&c=MS_GINS&k=2&d=17A4AD9FDB9CF1939847EC77F5F8D1CE54CF29E0B8069916

Posted: 28.05.2006 06:47

eilien wrote:

Hm, bei mir funktionieren sie. Möchte sich vielleicht noch jemand anderes daran versuchen?

für Robert:
1: http://cache.gettyimages.com/xc/57590028.jpg?v=1&c=MS_GINS&k=2&d=17A4AD9FDB9CF1939847EC77F5F8D1CE3A3DDAB17D03CFA6

2: http://cache.gettyimages.com/xc/57589882.jpg?v=1&c=MS_GINS&k=2&d=17A4AD9FDB9CF1939847EC77F5F8D1CE54CF29E0B8069916

Bei mir klappts 1A, alle Links OK !

Regisseur Gender: Age: 42 Joined: 05 Jan 2003 Posts: 1307

funktionieren nur mit copy/paste

ps irgendwie sieht der immernoch genauso aus,oder? die Brille is auch wieder furchtbar biggrin

Posted: 28.05.2006 10:32

also, bei mir funktionieren alle 4 links hervorragend!! smile

@ blauling: also, ich find, die brille passt zu ihm... was hast du gegen sie? wink

Posted: 28.05.2006 12:22

THX eilien, jetzt klappts bei mir auch. Copy/Paste hatte ich nicht gemacht! wink

@BD & Honey-maus: Naja, eine etwas modernere Brille würde ihm bestimmt nicht schaden! happy

Regisseur Gender: Age: 48 Joined: 01 Jan 2003 Posts: 1984

stimmt MW hat sich nicht die Bohne verändert. Naja spricht auch für ihn, denn man sieht nich dass er älter wird. Sicherlich vorteilhaft biggrin

Posted: 28.05.2006 12:57

Senga wrote:

stimmt MW hat sich nicht die Bohne verändert. Naja spricht auch für ihn, denn man sieht nich dass er älter wird. Sicherlich vorteilhaft biggrin

In seinem Alter schon! wink

Außerdem wirkt er in seiner aktuellen Rolle in NCIS jünger als damals in DA. Das kommt natürlich auch daher das er als Tony vor allem geistig zeitweise sehr jung geblieben wirkt. So um die 15/16 halt tongue

Posted: 28.05.2006 13:23

Ja das ist vorteil Von Männern sie sehen auch noch mit 30 jahren super aus tongue

Regisseur Gender: Age: 48 Joined: 01 Jan 2003 Posts: 1984

lol wobei 30 jetzt kein alter ist.... mit 30 sehen männer eh am besten aus. ist MW 30 oder was?

Posted: 28.05.2006 13:37

wenn ich erlich bin ich weiss nicht wie alt er ist.... rolleyes

Tut ja auch nicht zur sache..... wink

Posted: 28.05.2006 14:17

Ich glaub MW war schon 30 als er und JMA zusammen waren. Also ist er denk ich jetzt schon bald mal 35. Aber korrigiert mich bitte wenns wer besser weiß, ich bin kein solcher MW Spezialist wink