It's not over salary. It's not about the contract. It may be about "creative differences." It may be all in Mandy's mind.
Showrunner Ed Bernero writes on the Criminal Minds fan blog that the network and studio expected Mandy to show up to film the third season premiere-- since it was centered on his character, FBI profiler Jason Gideon. But he left them "in the proverbial lurch.
"Even to this moment, we have no word from him. He gave us no advance notice that anything was wrong, no opportunity to make the loss of the character work, no indication that we should be looking for someone else, no warning that we might have to rewrite the first seven scripts."
In the end, it comes down to press release today...
from co-producers ABC Studios and CBS Paramount Network Television:
"Last week, Mandy Patinkin asked to be released from his role on Criminal Minds. We have honored this request, which was not in any way connected to contract renegotiations or salary issues. His departure from the series will be explained to audiences in an episode to be filmed in the near future and broadcast early next season. We thank Mandy for helping to make Criminal Minds a strong and successful series, and we wish him the best in his future endeavors."
Illness? Or is there, after all these years and shows, still a bit of the diva in the Broadway boy? Well, the showrunner writes:
"...Everyone involved in the show has for two years bent over backward to give him ANYTHING he wanted..."
And that doesn't sound pretty...
Comments (2)
so he could do the Dead Like Me movie now?
(fingers crossed)
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Posted on July 17, 2007 5:37 AM
Dear Mandy--
I hope every thing is okay. I truly hope you will be able to return to Criminal Minds, for the strength of your personality, your excellent acting, your amazing craft which communicates so keenly to us your viewers, will surely be missed by all of us you have smitten with no more than that "look" you project so perfectly, your eyes speaking a million words without the slightest movement of your lips. Please come back to the show???!!!
Your loving fan.
2 of 2 | Posted by Patricia Fritz | Posted on October 31, 2007 9:51 PM