In an emailed statement to The Times, Mr. Weatherly apologized for his behavior with Ms. Dushku. “During the course of taping our show, I made some jokes mocking some lines in the script,” Mr. Weatherly said in the statement. “When Eliza told me that she wasn’t comfortable with my language and attempt at humor, I was mortified to have offended her and immediately apologized. The main character is loosely based on Dr. Phil McGraw, who worked as a trial consultant before he became a popular talk-show host. Mr. Weatherly, 50, was a star of the network’s most popular drama, “NCIS,” for 13 seasons before CBS gave him “Bull.” The character he plays, Dr. Jason Bull, is a self-assured trial consultant.

Source: New York Times December 14, 2018 00:33 UTC