Article by Jay Bobbin
Feb. 20th 2021
This Sunday, Daniela Ruah not only stars in “NCIS: Los Angeles,” she calls the shots on the CBS show. She talks with us about directing for the first time.
For a series star who wants to get into directing, starting with his or her own series is a good and logical move.
It’s an automatic bonus to know the cast, crew and characters in calling the shots for the first time… as Daniela Ruah did in making the Sunday, Feb. 21, episode of the CBS drama “NCIS: Los Angeles,” now in its 12th season. Though some actors are less evident in front of the camera while they’re also serving as director, Ruah’s Kensi Blye has a substantial role as fellow NCIS agent Callen (Chris O’Donnell) is accused of being a Russian spy during a mission.
“It was something that took me a while to realize I wanted to do,” the friendly Ruah says of her first job behind the cameras. “People will say that their passion has always been to do this or that, and that wasn’t the case with me and directing, but something clicked in the last couple of years where I just decided that I was ready to do it. Maybe it has to do with age and maturity, I don’t know, but I trust myself to do it now.”
Co-star Daniela Ruah directs a new “NCIS: Los Angeles” episode Sunday on CBS.In preparing “to pilot this gigantic airplane,” as she refers to her directing gig, Ruah had the cushion of being extremely familiar with the vast majority of the “NCIS: Los Angeles” team she’d be guiding. “This is the place to do it,” she confirms, noting that executive producer R. Scott Gemmill “very much kept me in the loop as he was writing the episode. He gave me every advantage possible to do this right, including having the holidays to work on it. Usually, a director has much less time to prep an episode.”
Still, Ruah has the shorthand of having been an “NCIS: Los Angeles” cast member from the start. She allows that was a particular help to her in working during the coronavirus pandemic, yet she explains under any circumstances, debuting as a director “is like being a first-time parent. It’s all you know, so as much as I know that this is a very complicated time, you feel safer having rules and parameters than having a wide open space where you can get lost.”
“NCIS: Los Angeles” is a literal family affair for Ruah in one way, since she’s married to the brother of her on-screen husband, Eric Christian Olsen (alias the show’s Marty Deeks). She and Eric’s stunt double David Olsen have two young children, and she reports, “Our lifestyle as parents is very much 50/50. He was so excited about me directing, he said, ‘Whatever you need.’ And he’s in my episode, so it was really fun to direct him, too.”
Thanks to Bea for the video!
Thursday on “The Talk” Eric Christian Olsen and Daniela Ruah dish on the upcoming “NCIS: Los Angeles” episode directed by Ruah. Christian reveals, “Everything is going on in this episode. Callen [Chris O’Donnell] is accused of being a double agent. There’s a big reveal at the end that I can’t reveal now…there’s a fashion show. I think I’m shirtless through half of it. I mean, it’s everything that everybody wanted.”
On her directorial debut, Ruah shares, “It is a huge amount of responsibility, but the best thing about it is that I have a team of incredibly talented department heads and everyone else that works below them, that make the dream that is this show come true. And, so the main thing I learned basically was to delegate, and not micromanage everything, because they know exactly what they are doing. So all I have to do is convey an idea of what I’d like it to look like and feel like, and they just get it done.” She adds, “Being an actor on this show for so long, I mean, where else would I ever have this experience be my first, it has to be here. And so now I feel like I’ve learned a little bit, there’s a lot still that I need to learn, but you know, hopefully this becomes a parallel career for me.”
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ET spoke with co-hosts Boomer Esiason and Daniela Ruah about ‘Super Bowl Greatest Commercials 2021,’ which aired Feb 3rd on CBS.
This is it! Daniela´s very own episode!!! Gotta love those words…”Episode Directed by Series Star Daniela Ruah”
#superexcited
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NCIS Los Angeles > Promotional Episode Stills > Season 12 > 12.11 Russia, Russia, Russia
WHEN CALLEN GOES TO THE NATIONAL COUNTERTERRORISM CENTER ON THE PRETEXT OF INTERROGATING A RUSSIAN ASSET FROM A PAST CASE, HE IS DETAINED AND ACCUSED OF BEING A RUSSIAN ASSET, ON “NCIS: LOS ANGELES,” SUNDAY, FEB. 21
Episode Directed by Series Star Daniela Ruah
Gerald McRaney Returns as Admiral Kilbride“Russia, Russia, Russia” – When Callen goes to the National Counterterrorism Center on the pretext of interrogating a Russian asset from the crashed plane case he investigated months earlier, the tables are turned and he is detained, accused of being a Russian agent, on NCIS: LOS ANGELES, Sunday, Feb. 21 (9:00-10:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network. Episode is directed by series star Daniela Ruah. Gerald McRaney returns as Admiral Kilbride.
WRITTEN BY: R. Scott Gemmill
DIRECTED BY: Daniela Ruah
GENRE: Drama, Crime, Mystery
Source: CBS Press Express
A atriz portuguesa, a viver nos Estados Unidos da América, esteve à conversa com a Iva Domingues na passada semana. A actriz falou sobre a sua primeira experiência como realizadora na série da qual é co-protagonista, dos seus planos para o futuro, do seu lado pessoal, do casamento e dos filhos.
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