Roma Maffia is talking Vera Strickland.
The 67-year-old actress, who played the role on NCIS in 2013, and again 12 years later in 2025, spoke out recently about the return of her character.
The younger version of Vera is played by Diany Rodriguez in NCIS: Origins, and Roma appeared in the two-part crossover between NCIS and NCIS: Origins this current season.
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“I told them, she needs to be back on a regular basis,” she said to TV Insider.
She added “they write her so beautifully.”
In her first episode, Vera was nearing retirement. In the crossover, she was reminded of how much she loved the job, although she said she wasn’t coming out of retirement.
“I think it’s going to take two minutes to Vera to feel like, ‘Oh, no, I’m back now. What am I doing? Making another cup of tea.’ I think that she’s very motivated. I think she got a little taste. I mean, she’s not what she used to be,” she explained.
“She’s not going to be running around chasing [suspects], but her brain and her street smarts, I think, are very advantageous for the team. In that way she has a lot to offer. I think she very well could be waiting for her phone [to ring] or another knock at the door or an arrest or a warrant or anything they have to offer.”
“She uses a lot of practical knowledge, where I think sometimes the guys are more in their head about steps ahead,” she added.
“There’s a level of humor that she brings that I find, the way they write it, very attractive, very real. I’d watch it,” Roma said.
As for her younger version played by Diany, she said: “She’s more innocent. I guess there it’s cumulative because you do get to see the younger version have to come up against things that could make someone a little more hardened.”
“Also in her personal life, what is her personal life? Why is she ending up alone? I’d love to see some of the seeds of that in Origins,” she added.
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Source: justjared.com
