Pounder says the storytelling, set in the early days of COVID, “is remarkably reflective of how New Orleans was in terrible shape, until our mayor, with the help of her governor, really put her foot down and was very, very strict. “So it’s quite a shock to her that she wasn’t listened to, or that it wasn’t that important to this person.”
“It reflects on the first part of the situation with masks and people saying, ‘No, I’m fine! I don’t need to wear a mask.’ All of those things you hear in the community,” Pounder says. Specifically, though without spoilers: Loretta, in the course of being understaffed while overwhelmed by the pandemic and the ongoing loss of life, will be rattled by the latest body to arrive at the morgue - in part because it is someone she had specifically counseled on how best to protect themselves. “And that is when I got the call from Jan Nash and Chris Silber (who wrote the season opener), saying, ‘This will be about COVID.'” “We are a part of it and we are living in it,” she observes. Upon eventually getting word that NCIS: New Orleans aimed to resume production in late August/early September, Pounder says she was “shocked,” in part because she couldn’t imagine how they might ignore the pandemic. There was no time for goodbyes for the hundreds who work on the show instead, Pounder likens the mass exodus that followed to “a fire drill, ‘Go to your nearest exit’ and all that.” For the first stretch of quarantine, the actress regularly checked in on her costars, thinking, “It’s just two weeks.” Except, the world would realize, “it wasn’t.”
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Thinking back to when the pandemic shut down all TV and film productions in mid-March, NCIS: New Orleans cast member CCH Pounder, who plays Loretta, tells TVLine, “We were working, when everybody got called to a central location on set I thought it was somebody’s birthday, nothing more than that! And then it was, ‘We’re packing up and shutting down for the rest of the season.'”
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