10 Actors Who FREAKED OUT When Their TV Character Died
7. Mark Sheppard Flipped Out On A Producer Who Suggested He Might Return - Supernatural
Mark Sheppard played the King of Hell Crowley on Supernatural, appearing in a whopping 70 episodes throughout the show's first 12 seasons, before his character was killed off with a sacrificial death.
Yet Sheppard held nothing back when discussing his dissatisfaction with not only Crowley's death but also his character's treatment during his final years on the hit show. He said:
"Once they decided they needed to do something different [with the direction of the show], they tried to get rid of me without telling me that they were going to get rid of me... But it became so apparent… It wasn't this big bombshell at the end... [Crowley's death was] the slowest, most painful death I've ever seen. I'd gone from being the smartest character on the show to being the dumbest character on the show in two seasons. They ran out of what to do."
Yet shortly after Sheppard exited the show, one of its many executive producers, Jim Michaels, took to Twitter to imply that the door had been left open for Crowley to return in the future.
But the ever-outspoken Sheppard, seemingly miffed by how his exit turned out, replied directly to Michaels, saying:
"With all due respect, your comment is inaccurate and misleading to the fans. There are NO plans to have me return to SPN at ANY juncture."
It seems that Sheppard wasn't upset about the idea of dying on the show itself, but how he was killed off, and that the show's creatives then wanted to string fans along with the prospect of his return, despite that evidently not being on the cards.
In an industry built on mountains of bulls**t, it's easy to applaud Sheppard's candour.