Don't get me wrong, I have really enjoyed his work on the above mentioned show, as well as Dead Like Me, but the story that is being told now is that his former cast members outright refused to appear in a scene with him after the way he left the series.
Which is pretty bad I admit... but then they twisted the knife a little bit more. It seems that the regular crew for the show also said they didn't want to be on set with him either so the producers had to bring in a special unit to do that work.
Ouch.
It's one thing to piss off your costars... but to piss off the crew too, that takes talent. And while actors may do a few different projects every year, think about how many gigs a lot of the backstage staff have, and the farther reaching consequences for that.
I mean, that is the kind of thing that could really follow you around, as I am sure that eventually, every set that Patinkin works on will eventually have someone on that crew that worked with him at Criminal Minds and is talking shit about him. Or perhaps there are going to be projects that he wanted to work on that because of the people involved, he will not get those jobs.
In the end, it looks like Mandy Patinkin's hasty second exit from a CBS television show is going to be costly. Leaving Chicago Hope was forgivable, but leaving a second series the same way will permanently hurt his career.
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