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AkhilArtha t1_j5m56tw wrote

Reply to comment by powergs in I'm astounded each time I watch Person of Interest's "If-Then-Else" by thebetabruh

There is a very good reason why John’s screen time was reduced. The reason is that Jim Caivezel was often a gigantic asshole on set and a hazard to boot.

I was quite sorry to hear about this afterwards.

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DontEatTheCelery t1_j5n1uuj wrote

What’d he do?

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mray147 t1_j5nq2jh wrote

I don't know what he did on the show but I saw a video of him going on an adrenochrome rant for some qanon conference. Was pretty damn disappointing.

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powergs t1_j5o2xg3 wrote

Well thats sad but i dont think that was the biggest reason why John scenes were lowered. It was because we learned John's past etc. in first 3 season already and show wanted to go about full machine and Samatrian (dont google if you didnt watch the show lol)

Its sad to read things about Jim Caviezel tho. He as a John Reese one of the most charismatic tv/action character i watched.

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AkhilArtha t1_j5o4whj wrote

That might be true from a story point of view but the real world reason played a bigger part. They started putting John under a balaclava more and more in later seasons so a stunt actor could do the part.

The reason was Jim Caivezel often went over zealous and started hurting the crew while doing action scenes. This is not even half of it.

There is a podcast that detailed all the happened behind the scenes.

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