On Set with LL Cool J and Cast of "NCIS: Los Angeles"

Can I be L L and you can be a fan?

Yo, L L. Oh, here it comes. Da. I just moved to it. I'm better at that than Yeah. Is that a Michael Jackson? Little bit.

Oh you look so cool that Mr. L L Cool J, I brought something and I'm going to do the interview. Now, am I doing this right? You tell me. Do I have to tip it back or what do I do? Keep it down, right?

No, no, no. You good. You good. You good.

Can we just clear one thing up first? What's Callen's first name? I forget. What is it again?

It's G. It's just it's it's simply the letter G.

Yeah. Are you ever going to reveal cuz I we're going to kick things off with a Twitter question from one of your fans. Okay. Um Andrea Neves 645 wants to know in which episode of NCIS L A will we know the first name?

Andrea, that is the uh million dollar question. It is. Uh we've been waiting a lot of years to find out what the G stands for. Um What would you what would you like it to stand for? You know, I don't I'm I'm excited to see what the showrunner uh our showrunner Shane Brennan comes up with. I know he's he already knows. He said to me before, he's like, do you want to know? I'm like I don't want to know. Yeah, I said I don't want to know. I want to I actually want to wait for the surprise with the audience or at least till that script comes out.

What's going on with NCIS L A lately?

Um well, Kenzie is in Afghanistan. Yeah. And we have very, very little contact with her. And she's missing her love interest, shall we say. I think we can call him her bow at this point.

Her bow. Yes, her her her super duper crush.

Yeah, they've been shipped officially. So, she's missing Deeks. Kenzie's missing Deeks. We're missing Kenzie. The whole team is missing Kenzie. Where is she? Why is she there? We don't really know. She doesn't really know. So, we're we're eager to talk to her and we get to talk to her and we're kind of this link, but we kind of have to keep it secret.

I I've I've tried to learn how to beatbox and I got a little bit of beatbox.

Let me see you doing it. You know you can do better than that. Do it for real.

I'm seriously. That is great. I just moved to it. I'm better at that then. Yeah. Was that like Michael Jackson? Little bit.

That was that was great. That was fantastic.

Yeah. It's pretty good. Uh oh. Someone's dancing. Someone's ready. That is He just He can't be without you, can he? Listen, he doesn't need

Does he follow you around? Tell us.

All the time. He doesn't need any motivation to dance. And so, and that's what I love about him.

What would be your ultimate crossover? Either you could do like a musical version of the episode of the show or a movie or a TV show.

We definitely want to, you know, you know, get on the ground. Federal agent. I would. Nobody move. Bang, bang.

You can bring it to Broadway. I'd go see it. I'm buying a ticket. You running down the block. I'm chasing you. Bang, bang. He's like, I don't think so. I love it. What would be your dream collaboration? Any movie, any bands. You could choose a band. You could make it a musical.

I mean, we need to bring The Dukes of Hazzard back. Keep me in the General Lee instead of our Challenger.

Which one would you be? Bo or Luke? Yeah. Are you a Bo or are you a Luke?

I guess I was more of a Luke. Wait, which one? But wait, no, it was Bo. It was more of the blonde one, I think, when I was a kid cuz I had blonde hair. So, you'd be you'd be for the Broadway cast. I'd be for the Broadway kind of Glee, kind of Smash crossover. Smash up, smash up. Smash up, mash up. Glee up. NCIS L A up. I was going to say Titanic, but that's a little mean.

Titanic. Which one? Oh my gosh. Oh, SpongeBob.

SpongeBob. That would be a great crossover. I would love.

Do you like a little SpongeBob?

Yeah, I really actually do. I don't know, maybe we do The Big Bang Theory or something. Something real silly.

I love The Big Bang Theory.

You know, maybe they'll be they'll show up in the bullpen while we're, you know, and we're investigating a case and we hire these nerds to help us solve some of the, you know, technical aspects of it. They show up in the bullpen.

Now, can you can you rap? Can you freestyle? Cuz I know you have great vocals. Which I can do some rapping. I have been told that I I can do um let's do uh we can do

I'm just making you all perform, so my turn. Seriously. Just on the spot. This is, this is for all the fellas trying to do what those ladies tell us. Get shot down cuz you're overzealous. Play hard to get females get jealous. Okay, Smarty, go to a party. I've done this in like years.

You do great. So, season five. I know you directed it, I think season four, you directed an episode. Any chance you'll I know it's a huge commitment.

Yeah, we're going to do it again.

You're going to do it again. That was another Twitter question from www. Serena wanted to know if you uh which episode? I guess she wants to know specifically what episode you're going to be directing.

I think it's going to be the last episode of the year that we shoot. Episode 25.

Go out with a bang.

Go out with a bang. Yeah.

Okay, if you could go undercover for a day, stalk anybody. Not in a stalky bad way, but like you could just sort of check out their life or know everything there was to know. Who would it be? Living or dead? Either. I'm giving you that option.

Wow. I would like to be a classmate of each of my kids for the day. And get to walk around and really see what my kids are like at school.

Hang out with them?

Yeah, but like watch them interact with their friends without, you know, the parent around.

I would kind of be a fly on the wall at like Buddha.

Buddha's time. You're hanging with Buddha.

I'm hanging with Buddha.

Well, I mean, that's a pretty cool dude to hang with. That's so many dynamic duos now on the show. You the nice pairings. What would you say the biggest similarity between you and Barrett in real life and the biggest difference?

Oh, that's so interesting. This is like just a confessional. Okay. Um, I would say that we both really enjoy keeping keeping things light. We love laughing together. I mean, I do have to say we like to laugh and keep things light and and and kind of dance around and be silly and do flash mobs.

Let me show you this. Let me show you this. Let me show you this. Oh, here it comes. What would you say the biggest sort of Cuz you guys are sort of opposites. Right. But are similar in some ways in life. What would you say the biggest difference and biggest similarity between you and L L?

Other than the fact that I can bench a lot more than him. I mean, cuz that's such an obvious one. Yeah. I mean, he's just The biggest difference uh I mean, musically, it's it's kind of comical. Chris, you know, he's he I I like Jimmy Buffett, but I just in the morning like Jimmy Buffett in the morning for me like, you know, I feel like I'm at the Hollywood Bowl with a Margarita or something. Like I can't. I need something that's going to wake me up.

So, I know you've talked before about, you know, shooting around L A and how people react to L L. Yo, L L! I was going to ask for an impersonation. Yo, L L. Wait, can I can I be can I be him for a second? Oh, you're going to get First of all, he wouldn't wear that color. Well, I'm the girl version of L L. Can can can I be L L and you can be a fan?

Yo, L L.

Is that really how it goes? Oh, they go crazy. Like, we've had women that literally are hyperventilating when they see him. And you're like, all right, whatever. And he's kind of giving away. But then they'll occasionally, you'll get someone that you have to stop production cuz she's going to have a complete panic attack if we don't Really? Bring her to L L.

I used to be really good at doing the walks of everyone. Can we do it? On the show, the movement. You can stand. I don't know if I'm going to be able to do it. One of my favorites is um Linda Hunt. Obviously. She's like my hero as well in life. And um so she has a very like stiff sort of like held presence.

Yes, she does. And she sort of looks like this. Oh, we have the Eric Olsens of of of the world who just he's constantly doing the shifty. He's like this. He like folds inside of himself. COD, he's a hard one to crack. Chris O'Donnell is a really hard one to crack. Oh my god. Okay, he does this. Do you do you see what's happening here? There's a rubbing of the first finger and thumb that happens. It's a very it's a it's a small little thing. But you go out with one of your don't you do this when you go out? Yeah, you know, exactly. Much love, baby. Much love. Peace, peace.