Now slated to anchor NBC’s Suits: L.A. spinoff, actor Stephen Amell had his sights set on a different offshoot show right before he auditioned for the Los Angeles lawyer role.
Amell revealed that he tried out for the role of a younger Leroy Jethro Gibbs character in NCIS: Origins just days before he auditioned for his Suits: L.A.
character Ted Black, a former federal prosecutor from New York who started over in Los Angeles and built a legacy for himself.
The role for the NCIS prequel went to Austin Stowell. “My focus wasn’t on Suits L.A. Two auditions came in [that week]. One was via Zoom, and this audition for suits was actually in person, which I remember being incredibly excited about because I don’t remember the last time [that happened,” Amell told Michael Rosenbaum on a new episode of the latter’s Inside of You podcast.“My actual focus that week was on an audition that I had on Wednesday for the prequel to NCIS.
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