Posted on 04/23/2018 1:37:56 PM PDT by EdnaMode
My recent Blind Item in Ask Ausiello is a blind no more. As confirmed by our sister site Deadline, a big question mark is now hanging over Lethal Weapon‘s seemingly slam-dunk Season 3 renewal due to the behavior of co-lead Clayne Crawford.
Per Deadline, Crawford has “been disciplined several times over complaints of emotional abuse and creating a hostile environment.” The issue reportedly intensified in recent months to the point where several actors and crew members on the Fox drama do not want to be on set with Crawford. A source tells TVLine that studio Warner Bros. is considering recasting Clayne’s Martin Riggs role — possibly with a female — to play opposite Damon Wayans’ Roger Murtaugh in a potential fourth season.
Lethal Weapon — an adaptation of the Mel Gibson-Danny Glover film franchise — this season is averaging 4.25 million total viewers and a 1.0 rating (in Live+Same Day numbers), tying for fourth in the demo among Fox dramas behind Empire, Star and The Resident.
Reps for Warner Bros. and Fox declined to comment for this story.
“A source tells TVLine that studio Warner Bros. is considering recasting Clayne’s Martin Riggs role — possibly with a female — to play opposite Damon Wayans’ Roger Murtaugh in a potential fourth season. “ This would be the dumbest idea in the history of television and I’ve seen Coy and Vance Duke.
They’re actors Jim...
A surefire loser.
He is just trying to stay in character!
I stayed away from this show but recently caught a few episodes and I have to admit, it kinda grew on me.
Actors are a dime a dozen.
Replace him with another.
It has been done before.........................Just ask Charlie Sheen.................
How about not remaking the movie. It really can’t be improved on.
It’s amazing how the actors that play total nutcases seem to be total nutcases. Vincent D’anforio (spelling wrong but don’t really care) from Law and Order was psycho too.
Sort of like the Kevin Spacey deal again.
This must be a TV adaptation??
Yeah but he played that into the role so very well.
Absolutely.
It should be a trans female.
(Adding the /sarc tag just in case)
Oh boy, a crazy woman.
Yeah, but D’Onofrio was so good on Law and Order CI.
I still love to watch his episodes.
I can watch the Chris Noth episodes and enjoy them, but definitely have to turn off Jeff Goldblum.
He was downright terrible in the role.
and then just ask anybody how bad the show was after Ashton Kucher came along.
I mean, indescribably BAD.
I still haven’t heard what Crawford did that was supposedly so bad that crybabies don’t want to be on the set with him. Doesn’t he get due process before being fired from his job? Acting is not like other jobs. You have to stay at least somewhat in character most of the time. If he was just being a dick to people because, well, Martin Riggs can be kind of a dick I don’t think they should be able to fire him just because of his commitment to the role.
Maybe they can just replace him with Dick Sargent.
My first reaction was, who? They need to replace the shrink with a real shrink.
Or Christopher Plummer.
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