tons of shows have done it with minor characters over the years. Friends, Roseanne, Fresh Prince, Game of Thrones, Bewitched. ![]() Movie series recast characters all the time (The Dark Knight, the Mummy, Marvel MCU, Harry Potter, Independence Day, Twilight.) Santa Clarita Diet and Crazy Ex-Girlfriend both used creative narrative devices to successfully explain the recasting of important characters. Soap operas have successfully recast roles for decades. ![]() Roles are constantly played by different people in theatre. (I know that recasting a character could be considered radical and wouldn't work on every show, but it's a practice that could work if we saw it happen more often. I'm just so annoyed by this disappointing writing choice, after an unnecessary but justifiable character death earlier in the season, that I think I'm going to have to breakup with this show for the foreseeable future. Let him be horribly disfigured in order to justify it, if you must (though I don't think it would be necessary). In the case of the season 3 death that has me worked up right now, I think a recasting would have been just fine. ![]() ![]() You can write about a character's absence, bring the actor in as an occasional guest actor, or in some cases even recast the character. Killing off a character solely because the actor is leaving the show is cheap and lazy writing.
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