{"id":3961,"date":"2025-12-09T15:08:31","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T15:08:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncisnews.com\/?p=3961"},"modified":"2025-12-09T15:08:31","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T15:08:31","slug":"heres-who-plays-young-pride-in-the-ncis-origins-prequel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncisnews.com\/?p=3961","title":{"rendered":"Here\u2019s Who Plays Young Pride in the NCIS: Origins Prequel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NCIS: Origins<\/strong> continues to explore the early days of Leroy Jethro Gibbs (Austin Stowell) at the young NCIS Camp Pendleton office, and season 2 is bringing in another familiar face from the wider franchise.<\/p>\n<p>Alongside Gibbs and his boss Mike Franks (Kyle Schmid in\u00a0<em>Origins<\/em>, originally played by Muse Watson), the prequel will introduce a young version of\u00a0<em>NCIS: New Orleans\u2019<\/em>\u00a0Agent Dwayne Pride. Shea Buckner \u2013 known for roles in\u00a0<em>Only Murd3rs in the Building<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Power Book II: Ghost<\/em>,\u00a0<em>The Rookie<\/em>,\u00a0<em>The Blacklist<\/em>, and\u00a0<em>Shameless<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 will take over the role from Scott Bakula.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3962\" src=\"https:\/\/ncisnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/FB_IMG_1765292871830-300x226.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"226\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ncisnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/FB_IMG_1765292871830-300x226.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ncisnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/FB_IMG_1765292871830-768x578.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ncisnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/FB_IMG_1765292871830.jpg 992w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Buckner previously appeared in the main\u00a0<em>NCIS<\/em>\u00a0series in 2018 as Xavier Blackburn, a murd3r suspect tied to the Taliban. In\u00a0<em>Origins<\/em>, he will guest-star in one episode as a newly minted Probationary Agent from the NIS Panama office. His character already has history with Gibbs, and the two must address old tensions while going undercover.<\/p>\n<p>The episode will also reunite the famed \u201cFed Five\u201d \u2013 Gibbs, Franks, Pride, Dan McLane, and Felix Betts \u2013 the task force that caught the Privileged K1ller in the original show. Casting for McLane and Betts has not yet been announced.<\/p>\n<p>Season 2 has also welcomed back another fan favorite: Adam Campbell, who reprises his role as a young Dr. \u201cDucky\u201d Mallard, last seen in a 2014\u00a0<em>NCIS<\/em>\u00a0flashback and again in the\u00a0<em>Origins<\/em>\u00a0episode \u201cThe Edge.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NCIS: Origins continues to explore the early days of Leroy Jethro Gibbs (Austin Stowell) at the young NCIS Camp Pendleton office, and season 2 is bringing in&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3962,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncisnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncisnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncisnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncisnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncisnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3961"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncisnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3963,"href":"https:\/\/ncisnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3961\/revisions\/3963"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncisnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncisnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncisnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncisnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}