“I was always capable of doing that as an actor,” Harper continued, “but I think visually, there needs to be something—doesn’t need to be, but in that case—I really just was really fortunate that that personal choice gave way to creatives seeing me as that potential, which was really neat.”
And now, the actor—who is married to fellow Good Luck Charlie alum Samantha Boscarino—is stepping into a new kind of role for NCIS: a straight-edge special agent from Alaska adjusting to life in the city while reeling from a split with his ex-fiancée.
“Moving from that show to this show, these characters couldn’t be more different,” he explained. “For me, wardrobe is a big way in. What kind of shoes is this character walking in? What kind of jackets do they wear? Do they not wear jackets? So as soon as I tucked in that flannel and put my belt buckle on, I was like, ‘We’re not Vic Flynn anymore. We are Wyatt Sellers from Alaska.'”
Wyatt was even different from his own team, including Sam Hana (LL Cool J), Nick Schaeffer (Scott Caan) and Robyn Wells (Jennifer Beals).
