Lucas Black said goodbye to NCIS New Orleans in 2019 and has not looked back since.
The actor, one of the original cast members of the "NCIS" spinoff, starred as agent Christopher LaSalle from 2014 until he was killed off in Season 6. The 39-year-old also appeared on "NCIS" from 2014 to 2017.
"I think going into the series I realized that the way it operates, it wasn’t gonna last forever for me," Black explained to Fox News Digital. "Being in the entertainment business since I was an early child, I was able to recognize how destructive it can be to families. Most of the time that’s because you’re away from home for a long time and the working hours are very long… For three years, it was normal to work 70 hours a week.
I would go to work, the kids would still be in bed. I would come home and they would already be in bed for the night going to sleep again. That doesn ot bode too well with your relationship with your children so for us, we knew that could not last forever. The show was good to us," the father of three shared. We had a good time. It was a good run and we sacrificed a lot of family time. But at some point enough was enough. It was time for us to take back a lot of that time and spend that quality time with each other that was sacrificed for six years.
The star said that his cast mates respected his decision to exit the popular CBS series.
"I think at first they might have been surprised he said. Because of the way information gets passed along, it can seem kind of sudden. But it was not sudden for me. Its something that I had been thinking about for a long time. But most of the cast respected it and they understood the reasons why because they know the grind of network television.
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