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Michael talks about Robert Wagner on New York Post:

[about their resemblance] – “I really don’t see it,” Weatherly insists. “He’s a damned handsome man and I’ll take the compliment, but wow — it’s like someone saying you look like Brigitte Bardot.”

“This is a guy whose heart is so big and magnificent.”

“he’s accessible and he’s got a little devilish twinkle in his eye, a little bit of that mischief.”

“I have a man-crush on RJ. I was just a big fan,” he says. “Obviously I had spent some time studying him [for the TV movie], so I was just thrilled when they said that he’s going to be on it. I couldn’t stop smiling for a few hours.”

“Pauley Perrette [forensic scientist Abby Sciuto] had a great observation the first day we were working together,” Weatherly says. “After the first couple of takes, she said, ‘Michael. You’re not acting in the scene.’ I said, ‘What?’ She said, ‘You’re just looking at RJ like a fan.’

“It took me a few takes to get into the swing of it . . . I was self-conscious, I was really just starring at him going, ‘Wow, he’s doing that thing, I love when he does the eyebrow thing!,” he says with a laugh, adding, “I got better.”

“I was nervous. I don’t get very nervous anymore…there was a knot in my stomach.”

Michael Weatherly has pic of Robert Wagner. 4 years ago told show stylists: “Give me that hair”

“He knows everyone and everyone knows him . . . He’s lived a really interesting life and he understands television, so for him to come on our show and for me to stand between Mark Harmon and Robert Wagner, it’s kind of like being on Mount Rushmore,”

“If you can imagine Tony DiNozzo without a gun and a badge and without Leroy Jethro Gibbs [Harmon] being the moral rudder to the DiNozzo ship, what you end up with is Tony’s father.”

“He’s a tough guy. Mark Harmon and Wagner have some classic scenes, where they sit down, mano-a-mano, and just go at it.”

The admiration, it turns out, was mutual.

“Michael is wonderful, I have a great respect and great compassion for this young man, I like him very, very much,” Wagner says.

Read more: NY Post

“I really don’t see it,” Weatherly insists. “He’s a damned handsome man and I’ll take the compliment, but wow — it’s like someone saying you look like Brigitte Bardot.”

Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/entertainment/tv/ncis_dad_fad_N7cOVhk7g6v7clEprlLC5I#ixzz0cDrC1WJG