“Life had different plans” is a line that applies fairly often in tv relating to why actors select to go away a profitable and standard present on their very own accord. Generally you don’t have any selection if the creatives (showrunners, writers, or producers) determine to go in one other path story-wise and have your character written out completely, whereas different occasions the mistreatment from crew and solid members pressure you to get on the market as quick as potential — like within the case of Afton Williamson whose treatment was as gross and infuriating because it will get when she was on ABC’s police procedural, “The Rookie.”
Fortunately, Jennifer Love Hewitt’s exit from the long-running and beloved crime drama, “Criminal Minds,” after one season was as candy and amicable as potential. The “I Know What You Did Last Summer” actress performed Katherine “Kate” Callahan, an skilled FBI agent, who joined the Behavioural Analyst Unit (BAU) within the present’s tenth season and appeared for 23 episodes. The recurring half got here a few years after certainly one of Hewitt’s hottest tv roles in “Ghost Whisperer,” a supernatural drama she starred in for 5 seasons between 2005 and 2010. She left “Prison Minds” because of very comprehensible and slightly optimistic private causes in 2015.
Hewitt left the sequence as a result of she was anticipating her second little one and wished to present the child her full consideration and love as a mother
Showrunner and govt producer Erica Messer had no intention to half methods with Hewitt’s Kate Callahan. In truth, she stated that they had been having a “lot of enjoyable along with her.” However as soon as Hewitt came upon she was pregnant, Messer utterly understood that Hewitt wished to be a full-time mother. In a 2015 interview with Entertainment Weekly, she spoke about how the choice was made, which additionally allowed them to have a lovely, very true-to-life send-off. She stated:
“She’s [Hewitt] having one other child. Though on the present she hasn’t had, bodily, two infants, she does have two youngsters: She has Meg, who she’s been elevating since she was an toddler, and we wrote in that the character goes to have one other child. There was a chance there to write down in direction of the reality. Jennifer wished to have the ability to give this second child all the pieces she gave her first, and that is taking break day to be a full-time mother. As a result of she’s due in July, after we would begin taking pictures season 11, timing-wise there was no approach for her to do each, to have the ability to give that child all the pieces she wished to and nonetheless be on our present.”
This sort of “coincidence” maybe occurs extra typically in tv than you suppose (life imitating artwork and vice versa), nevertheless it’s one thing that is at all times good to see when dealt with with such consideration and assist as within the case of Jennifer Love Hewitt. “Prison Minds” and its followers absolutely missed her within the following seasons, however her exit (and its trigger) hasn’t left any exhausting emotions.
