The first season ended with Kate’s (Tori Anderson) grand gesture for Lucy (Yasmine Al-Bustami), which worked to win her back. You can soon re-watch that moment, along with Season 1 on DVD on September 6 from CBS Home Entertainment and Paramount Home Entertainment. It includes featurettes, deleted and extended scenes (including the exclusive one above), and a gag reel. When TV Insider spoke with Anderson, the star chatted about singing, teased what’s ahead for Kacy, and more.
Kate’s grand gesture in the finale
worked!
Tori Anderson: That came as a bit of a shock. I
got a phone call before the script was released from [writer] Matt Bosack, and
he just said, “This is what we’re thinking, do you have any feelings about
this?” He wanted to just open up the conversation around it. I was quite
nervous, but very excited for Kate to finally make a move that was kind of a Say
Anything moment that was laying it all on the line. Because
throughout the season, she kept trying and trying and trying and had no luck. I
think this was her final attempt, and thank goodness it worked. It was really
exciting. I think no one wanted to hear that song because I sang it so many
times on set. But it was a blast and I’m very happy that they’re back together.
Ernie (Jason Antoon) in that scene was so funny:
“I wasn’t being literal.”
I know, it’s
so funny. I know people that take things at face value and take things
literally. I love that Kate does that. When she hears something, it’s almost
like, in a sense, a direct order. Jason is so fun to play off of and he’s been
such a Kacy supporter, in both Lucy and Kate’s corners throughout their
relationship, trying to get them to reconcile. I think it’s fun for him to play
and I love to watch him all the time. He’s hilarious.
How’s
Kate and Lucy’s relationship in Season 2? Are they doing it right this time,
like Kate said she wanted to? Being more honest?
Yes. Kate is
continuing to learn about honesty. In ways, it’s a hindrance because she wants
so badly to do it right that sometimes it occupies more brain space than it
needs to. She has a little bit of anxiety about doing things wrong. You
definitely see them in a more domestic place, in a really happy day-to-day
place and what that looks like. I love my scenes with Yasmine. She’s a
consummate professional. She is hilarious. She is wildly talented. She makes my
job incredibly easy, so doing scenes with her has been such a joy. I’m very
grateful for her. They’re definitely finding a work-life balance and to be on
the same side with no animosity towards each other at work has been a really
nice place to explore. You see them trying to do things together and working as
a team. Everyone’s working as a team and there’s no bad blood between anyone.
Kate moved to the FBI, but we know
that she had an offer in DC. How is she feeling about her job and staying in
Hawai’i? Settled?
She’s thrown
into situations and still finding her footing, but she’s definitely settled and
ultimately she wants to be in Hawai’i because she wants to be close to Lucy.
She doesn’t want to give up her job as NCIS liaison. She wants to be where she
is. Part of that is I don’t think she’s ever experienced a team like this NCIS
team helmed by Jane Tennant [Vanessa Lachey]. She’s surprised that
you can like your coworkers, spend time with them, develop these relationships
with them because I think she’s felt largely alone and isolated and has
struggled with the ability to open up. Finding the peace and the kindness that
Jane exudes has been a really eye-opening experience for Kate.
Kate
and Jane are so different: Kate’s more solo, while Jane’s very much about her
team as a family.
Yeah, and when
I auditioned, the pilot, Kate came in so red-hot and had this directness that
didn’t open up any world for her and Jane to ever get along. She was frustrated
and hated having to put the hammer down and she saw Jane getting in the way of
her being able to do her job. The way that it evolved was really nice. Vanessa
does such a beautiful job of portraying Jane as someone who really doesn’t
judge people. She leads with kindness and leads with an openness that Kate is
not used to and so her guard gets let down a little bit and she’s able to see that.
Seeing their friendship and their mutual respect for one another is really
nice. It’s exciting to see two women in a workplace cheer each other on and to
understand that they may have differing opinions, but they both value each
other’s opinion. Generally, they both want the end result: They want to do the
right thing and they want to do what’s good.
Kate went out in the field a bit last
season, though that didn’t end well.
[Laughs]
What do you mean?
Is that something that Kate wants to
do more?
Yeah, she
understands the bureaucratic sense of the office. That’s her happy place and
where she spent most of her time really finding her niche. She’s really good at
internal office politics. But she constantly wants to learn and she wants to
expand and no one wants to go into the field and get their ass handed to them.
So she is interested in training, in being able to go into the field and be
better prepared next time, because as an FBI agent, you have to be able to hold
your own. I think you will see her learning to do that this season.
We
don’t need ambulances and a sling every time.
Yeah, that
would get old fast. [Laughs]
The premiere is the NCIS crossover. Is Kate involved this time?
She is
involved [in the Hawai’i half]. Torres
[Wilmer Valderrama] and Knight [Katrina Law]
fly over to Hawai’i to help them solve the crime and they do all work together.
So yes, finally involved, woohoo!
What’s that dynamic like?
It’s fun.
There’s a funny scene in there that she’s observing something else going on,
trying to get the work back on track, but it’s nice. I think she’s excited to
be around very intelligent people and it’s a high-stakes situation, so
obviously they’re all trying to get the job done to the best of their ability,
but it’s a nice amalgamation of worlds.
Kate’s place and her view is gorgeous.
She’s still
there. I don’t know how she can afford that place, but that’s the magic of TV.
You will see more of Kate’s place.
We
didn’t get too much of Kate with the team in Season 1 because of the nature of
her job.
We just
started Episode 5, so there’s still a lot of room for everything to grow. I
think I had my first one-on-one scene with Noah [Mills, who plays Jesse]. That
was nice because they didn’t have a scene together last season. There’s some
stuff with Ernie that is always fun. It’s still early days, so I’m sure
there’ll be lots more of it, but there’s less friction with her and the team
this season. It’s a lot more working together.
Do you think because she’s more
settled in her personal life now, she can open herself up to them, which means
less friction?
Absolutely.
She’s more settled in her personal life. She really respects the team that Jane
has built and wants to work with them. At the end of the day, she wants to stay
on as the NCIS liaison for the FBI, so she doesn’t want to lose that
opportunity and she’s very happy in the place she’s in and very inspired by the
team in general and really has a newfound respect for them that she didn’t
really have at the beginning of Season 1, when she just came in to do her job
and was sort of in and out.
What
were your favorite Season 1 scenes to film?
I know I got beat down pretty hard, but I loved that
fight scene. That was really fun.
I loved
all of my scenes with Yasmine. She’s such a joy to work with and as devastating
as those moments were when they eventually led to Lucy deciding to end things
with Kate, it was really big realization moments for both characters. They
didn’t do the best job communicating throughout the season, but they did say
these big things that kind of shatter you as a human. They were such
well-written scenes and it was a very impactful moment for me as an actor to be
able to bring that to light and to be able to really wear your heart on your
sleeve in a way that you don’t always get to do, especially in a procedural.
I also loved
the balcony scene with Vanessa.
That conversation about Kate breaking
Lucy’s heart was so good.
And when she
says, “there’s a lot of risks I’m willing to take and you’re no longer one of
them,” I still remember that line. It’s like seared into my memory. It still
punctures my heart a little bit.
Fortunately,
they’re in a happy place now.
Yes,
absolutely. We won’t live in the past. We can live in the now.
What aspects of Kate are you hoping to
explore more in Season 2?
I’m hoping to
explore more of her relationship with the team and her loosening up and maybe
getting in on some of the jokes versus kind of trying to just skirt by them.
I’m excited for her relationship with Lucy to grow and her relationship with
Jane to grow and just to be more involved and not be brushing up against office
politics as much, and actually both kind of all being on the same side and
working as a team.
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