Hawaii Was Prepared For Lucy And Kate's Staggering Height Difference

"NCIS: Hawaii" executive producer Jan Nash told TVLine in a 2021 interview that she had no idea there was a five-inch height difference between soon-to-be couple Kate and Lucy — until Tori Anderson and Yasmine Al-Bustami showed up on set. "Everybody's the size of their head and shoulders in a box [on Zoom], so we had no idea!" Nash said. "[Yasmine and Tori] got these roles because they were the actors who really sold the parts in their auditions, and then they showed up and we were like, 'Oh my!'"

Anderson, for her part, also admitted to TVLine that she was taken off guard, and while Kate initially wore heels, towering over Al-Bustami caused the actor to switch to flats. "And flats don't always work greatly with pencil skirts, but my goodness, the wardrobe department made it work," she said. Anderson thought it was fun to work with the height difference, even though it meant the show had to get more creative filming the couple together. "So, yeah, Yaz had to step on a few boxes, and I had to put some flats on! But we made it work."