Gideon’s replacement has been found
By fred | July 20, 2007
It’s been much talked already, Many Patinkin left Criminal Minds ! No, he wasn’t fired, he just left. With warnings or nothing. And as previously said, he’ll be back for one episode so Gideon can actually be written out of the show. But who will take his place? There had been a casting call for someone that fits Patinkin’s description, and….
..and the answer is : it’s a woman !
Yes, the front runner for replacing Patinkin is no other than Commander in Chief’s President Geena Davis. This was left out of the can at CBS press tour soiree by Criminal Minds’s Shemar Moore.
Moore also commented Patinkin’s abrupt exit: “I don’t like that he did this the way he did this. I don’t. I don’t think it’s right. He left us hanging a little bit… no warning, no nothing. We all showed up to work on Day 1, and he didn’t. And we’ve been scrambling. But we’re going to be all right without him. I just feel like he needs to take responsibility for his actions… [and] just acknowledge us, because it’s an ensemble, it’s a team…. We just want the courtesy and the respect that we deserve. And we felt like if he had given us that initially, this would be much easier to deal with. He essentially just slapped us in the face.”
I have to say, this is very well said, and applies to everyone working on the show, as well as fans on another level.
On the choice of Davis, I have never been a fan of hers, and Commander in Chief was an awful show! But who knows. I think it all depends also on how they’ll write her in : is she’s nothing but a female version of Gideon, it won’t work.
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Shows: Criminal Minds
