
NCIS: Los Angeles wrapped its 14-season run in May 2023, but some of its leading actors aren’t done with the NCIS franchise. LL Cool J will reprise Sam Hanna in multiple episodes of NCIS: Hawai’i Season 3, and word recently came in that Daniela Ruah, who played Kensi Blye on Los Angeles, will direct an episode of Hawai’i, as well as an episode of the flagship show. Following the actress announcing her NCIS return, fellow franchise performer Brian Dietzen and Erik Palladino, among others, shared fun responses to the big news.
It was previously revealed that Ruah’s NCIS Season 21 episode, which she’s directing this month, will air in March, and then in February she’ll shift to her Hawai’i Season 3 episode, which will air in April. Naturally Ruah posted about her directorial gigs on Instagram, where she wrote in the caption: