The show has settled on an interesting cast dynamic after early issues such as having to scrap its original pilot and the Season 1 departure of main cast member Sandrine Holt, who played Patricia Thornton, a gender-swapped version of the original MacGyver’s Phoenix Foundation boss, Pete Thornton an exit that was handled by bringing in Meredith Eaton as new boss Matty Weber, a spitfire of a character who actually ended up improving the cast chemistry. MacGyver has relied on the buddy dynamic between Till’s impromptu inventor and Eads’s blunt instrument of a protector, so it will be interesting to see how it handles the exit. government operative at Phoenix Foundation, a covert agency. That incident resulted in Eads being suspended from the series, though his exit – after a decade-and-a-half on the show – would occur shortly after his return. Covering MacGyver guest stars, recurring characters, MacGyver episodes, plot points. The actor is still best known for his 15-year run as Nick Stokes on the network’s signature crime procedural, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, a tenure that saw its share of tension, notably with a 2013 on-set argument with a writer over the direction of his character. This is hardly the first time that Eads has clashed behind-the-scenes with CBS. Consequently, the report also claims that Eads had been unhappy with the series for quite some time and told showrunner Peter Lenkov his intention to quit and was attempting to convince producers to let him out of his remaining contract. It seems that shooting the series in Atlanta has taken a toll on his family life, keeping him an entire country away from his young daughter in Los Angeles. However, the mysterious altercation involving Eads wasn’t so much the primary reason for his imminent exit as it was the straw that broke the camel’s back.

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