10 Actors Who Walked Off Huge TV Shows (And Why)

10. Extras Leave And Don't Come Back - Noughts And Crosses

Finally bringing the television adaptation of Malorie Blackman's Noughts & Crosses novel series to life after being announced as in production some four years earlier, 2020's BBC spin on the Romeo and Juliet-esque love tale set in a dystopian world hit all the right notes with audiences, eventually earning a second season that will land on BBC One this year.

However, in the lead-up to the show's release, it was actually revealed by Paterson Joseph, playing Home Secretary Kamal Hadley, that a number of white extras brought in to shoot the series whilst on location in South Africa weren't best pleased with the material and didn't return to set the next day upon learning of the premise of the show; that being Black people known as Crosses being in the positions of real power in this world, whilst the white Noughts take up lower classed roles in the wake of Africa colonising Europe.

As Joseph put it whilst talking about the show at the Southbank Centre in London:

“I don’t mind saying this, it’s the truth, we had extras - white extras in South Africa - who decided not to come back the next day when they heard the premise of what they just shot because it’s difficult."