Damon Wayans Is Leaving 'Lethal Weapon'
by EG
First Clayne Crawford was fired from Lethal Weapon, and now Damon Wayans has announced that he's jumping ship, too. Can the embattled Fox series survive? Read on for details.
Via Deadline.
Just as one chapter of behind-the-scenes drama on Fox’s Lethal Weapon closes, another one opens.
Shortly after the fast nationals for last night came out this morning, showing a solid Week 2 ratings performance for the revamped series with new co-lead Seann William Scott, a video interview of star Damon Wayans surfaced in which he announced that he was leaving the show in December, after completing the initial 13-episode Season 3 order.
I hear the announcement blindsided everyone, and he notified neither the studio nor the Lethal Weapon producers before doing the bombshell statement to Electronic Urban Report.
Wayans rarely does publicity for Lethal Weapon; he resisted/refused doing it early on and is not even asked to anymore. I hear EUR’s team was on the set of Lethal Weapon for Wayans’ co-star Keesha Sharp, who is making her directorial debut on the show with the episode now being filmed. There they got the interview with Wayans, who announced his exit from the show. (I hear he also said nice things about Sharp’s directing skills.)
In the brief one-on-one, Wayans revealed that he had been going through a difficult time personally, with both his daughter and mother undergoing surgeries last week that he could not be present for because of his obligations to Lethal Weapon.
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