{"id":3999,"date":"2025-12-16T19:08:18","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T19:08:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncisnews.com\/?p=3999"},"modified":"2025-12-16T19:08:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T19:08:18","slug":"ncis-brings-back-a-fan-favorite-character-after-four-year-absence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncisnews.com\/?p=3999","title":{"rendered":"NCIS Brings Back a Fan-Favorite Character After Four-Year Absence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A familiar NCIS character is officially returning \u2013 with a twist. Dwayne Pride, originally portrayed by Scott Bakula on\u00a0<em>NCIS: New Orleans<\/em>, will appear for the first time in four years on\u00a0<em>NCIS: Origins<\/em>, but he\u2019ll be played by a new actor.<\/p>\n<p>According to\u00a0<em>TV Insider<\/em>, casting is underway for a younger version of Pride, who is expected to debut later this season. Bakula starred as the beloved agent for seven seasons from 2014 to 2021.<\/p>\n<p>The younger Pride is described as a former sheriff\u2019s deputy and newly appointed probationary special agent from the NIS Panama office. He shares a complicated history with Leroy Jethro Gibbs, whose younger self is played by Austin Stowell, and the two will confront their past while working undercover.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4000\" src=\"https:\/\/ncisnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/FB_IMG_1765912054175-300x180.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ncisnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/FB_IMG_1765912054175-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ncisnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/FB_IMG_1765912054175-768x460.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ncisnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/FB_IMG_1765912054175.jpg 914w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Co-showrunners Gina Lucita Monreal and David J. North said the series is excited to explore Pride\u2019s early years and his connection to Gibbs, calling him \u201cthe legendary Special Agent Dwayne Pride.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The actor taking on the role has not yet been announced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A familiar NCIS character is officially returning \u2013 with a twist. Dwayne Pride, originally portrayed by Scott Bakula on\u00a0NCIS: New Orleans, will appear for the first time&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4000,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3999","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\/3999","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=3999"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncisnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4001,"href":"https:\/\/ncisnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3999\/revisions\/4001"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncisnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncisnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncisnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncisnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}