Last week on the 2026 TV schedule, NCIS: Origins viewers got to see the first official meeting between Leroy Jethro Gibbs and Dwayne Pride, the future lead character of NCIS: New Orleans. Oh sure, they briefly ran into each other in New Orleans in 1981, but this marked their first time working together as law enforcement professionals. But they didn’t get along at first, and during this rocky start, they did something that, much to my surprise when I learned it from Gibbs actor Austin Stowell, is actually the stunt that “produces the most injuries.”
During “Feelin’ Alright?”, Gibbs and Pride, played by Only in the Murders in the Building’s Shea Buckner, arm wrestle each other to a cheering crowd at the NIS Pendleton office, with Randy being especially entertained by the spectacle. When I recently had the opportunity to interview Stowell, I asked him whether he and Buckner arm wrestled for real on the NCIS: Origins set, and he informed me:
