As a The Blacklist fan, all I hear and think of is Raymond Reddington.
Friday OT - Casting Changes
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Terrence Howard played Rhodey in Iron Man and was replaced by Don Cheadle. At the time, Terrence Howard was actually the biggest actor attached to the film when it was announced. At the time of his casting he had just been Oscar-nominated for Best Actor for Hustle & Flow. Even on the movie poster his name appears before Gwenyth Paltrow & Jeff Bridges. Meanwhile there were questions if Robert Downey Jr could resurrect his career with a superhero nobody had heard of. Howard let fame get to his head and walked away after 1 movie and the role was filled by Don Cheadle.
I don’t think anyone would disagree that Cheadle is the better fit.
I don’t think anyone would disagree that Cheadle is the better fit.
They did the same on Married with Children when they added "Seven"
They realized everyone hated the kid and just never brought him back the next season. Even made a joke about it.
It was a great show all around. They didn't really "replace" actors while having someone play the same character they just replaced the character entirely like when they switched from Blake to Potter, Trapper John to BJ, and Frank to Charles. All the characters had there own different back stories and personalities and just like the real Army you could have personnel come and go throughout a war. I think it kept the show fresh throughout it's run.
Last Man Standing replaced actors for both the Kristin and Mandy characters and have essentially now replaced the 3rd daughter Eve with a new foreign exchange student character. The change in actors for Kristin really didn't ruin the show because they did it very early in the series but when they replaced Molly Ephraim as Mandy with Molly McCook it kind of ruined the character for me because no only do they look nothing alike but the new actor isn't nearly as good playing the role and I swore they made the character even dumber than before.
Looking forward to the new and last season as they have already teased a trailer with Tim "The Tool Man" Taylor being part of it. They already had 2 other former Home Improvement actors have cameo appearances in the show so it would be cool if they sprinkled a few more in this season as there have been rumors that Tim Allen might be interested in a Home Improvement reboot.
Looking forward to the new and last season as they have already teased a trailer with Tim "The Tool Man" Taylor being part of it. They already had 2 other former Home Improvement actors have cameo appearances in the show so it would be cool if they sprinkled a few more in this season as there have been rumors that Tim Allen might be interested in a Home Improvement reboot.
Having Blake get killed and having it planned (not written after the fact) was a stroke of genius. That was intense and a total shock.
I also heard that Terrence Howard was a royal pain in the a$$, and nobody on the set wanted him back. I do like Cheadle better.
Along with Richie's brother Chuck in Happy Days. Then Pat Morita left as Arnold after he got married and Al Molinaro took over as the owner of Arnolds.
And Family Ties, and Little House on the Prairie...any network family drama / dramedy from the '80's. It was a message to the viewers that anything worth writing for the show had already been written, stick around if you want, we're done with this in two seasons, tops.
I think I'd agree with this take. Really, his rise to power was the best part. Once he got to the top, it just seemed forced.
And the last season was trash. I watched it, because I wanted it to be good, but came away very disappointed.
Completely agree, obviously the premise is extreme but it’s done in a believable way through the first couple seasons. After that it just gets a bit too far beyond the realm of reality in my opinion, and it just made the show that much harder to stick with.
And really it’s a credit to how great the writing and characters were in the first few in seeing how many of us stuck it out to season five or six, when the show went downhill fast.
Yeah, that was one of the best scenes of the entire show. Apparently they did not tell the cast how that was going to happen so when Radar came in and read the note that was the first time any of them had time to process what happened so the reactions were real. The writing for the show was great, Alda especially as the shown progressed started to write and direct more episodes and I believe a few other episodes some other cast members has a part of the story and directing as well.
Family Matters iirc had little kids too, but then they kind of came and went.
What?! No one has brought up the various women in Charlie's Angels? Those were huge news at the time. First, Farrah then Kate Jackson a couple of years later.
Yeah, it just seemed that the shenanigans were more believable in the first few seasons. Season 5 had a feeling that it was getting pretty stale, and Season 6 should have just not happened.
I liked jackie smith, so as long as she was on I had 12 year old wood.
