It seems that Don Bellisario — a manufacturer and screenwriter for the display — to begin with idea that Mark Harmon used to be too good-looking for the function of Gibbs.
In a 2006 interview with Leisure Weekly, Bellisario defined how he idea Harmon used to be a “lovely boy” and an excessive amount of of a longtime “intercourse image” to pull off the cruel man he envisioned for his superstar personality, which might have to be convincing as a seasoned chief of an army investigations unit.
Bellisario informed the hole that Harmon’s stint as Agent Simon Donovan on The West Wing ultimately satisfied him that he used to be the person for the process, pronouncing: “What I noticed used to be an overly managed presence, a quiet power. That is what I used to be on the lookout for. Leroy is Mark’s roughly man. Mark has that jock mentality — you tricky it out regardless of how tricky it’s.”