This is a woman who’s gone through some stuff, who’s fighting desperately to save her friend and also I think her higher objective, at some point, is to reunite with her daughter, and so.
This is not just, you know, the happy-go-lucky I’m having a good day Ziva or the Ziva that came into the squad room [and] I was gonna have a flirty scene with Tony.
she keeps the eye on the prize.
I was a little nervous, but as soon as I read the script, it became very evident that she had gone through some massive changes; that she had gone through challenging life situations and that that would inform the character from now on.