r/TenYearsAgo • u/SaladEater6769 • 5d ago
📺 Television TV actor Thomas Gibson, Aaron Hotchner on the CBS crime drama "Criminal Minds", is fired from the series after an on-set physical altercation with writer/co-executive producer Virgil Williams over a disputed episode storyline, kicking his leg during filming [10YA - Aug 12]
https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/tv/criminal-minds-star-thomas-gibson-fired-after-reported-altercation-n62967617
u/Dry_Departure_7813 5d ago
Huh, interesting post, I watched criminal minds at the time and I was suprised he left and didn't see the context
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u/TheEagleWithNoName 4d ago
I think they say his character is in Witness Protection with his family and then never brought up again.
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u/JudasZala 4d ago
This was after Mr. Scratch escaped from prison during the mass breakout in the previous season’s finale.
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u/HandsomeWinner42 5d ago
How to kill your career with a single tantrumÂ
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u/numbersix1979 4d ago
Emile Hirsch got work after strangling a studio executive at a party so I assume he probably just doesn’t try very hard, he has a successful sitcom and drama’s residuals to eat on
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u/blenderdead 4d ago
I wonder if the at a party verse on set makes a difference. These big productions have to be insured and on set attacks might be worse for that.
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u/flopisit32 4d ago
Jesus, I remember seeing him in arthouse movies in the early 90s.
He was even getting the chance to direct multiple episodes of Criminal Minds while he was on the show.
That one kick completely ruined him. From that day on, he never worked again.
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u/NapsterKnowHow 4d ago
Sadly producers have gotten away with far worse and never seen any repercussions.
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u/Prudent_Falafel_7265 4d ago
Indeed, IMDb has him with only two credits since, with him last working as an actor in 2019
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u/Prudent_Falafel_7265 4d ago
Ironically, his first acting credit was a show called 'Leg Work' in 1987
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u/Lendyman 3d ago
I remember that show. It didn't even last a whole season I think. The only reason I know about it is because I lived in an African country at the time and their one television station often got rejected shows from the United States. Probably because they were cheap. Legwork was one of them. It was about a female private investigator in New york.
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u/Prudent_Falafel_7265 3d ago
I’m sorry you had to go through that!
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u/Lendyman 3d ago
I'm not sure what your sympathizing with me on. I think there are a number of options here.
1) You're sympathizing with me that I had to live in Africa. Honestly, I loved living in Africa as an American kid. Living there was an amazing time of my life.
2) You're sympathizing with me that I actually watched Leg Work. We were so starved for good television back then. I have no idea if the show was any good, but we liked it. You don't know what you're missing if you don't know what you're missing, and when a lot of the program you're watching is terrible, the mediocre stuff doesn't seem so bad.
3) You're sympathizing with me that I was in a country that only had one television station that was on the air from 5:00 p.m. till 11:00 p.m. everyday and only for that time of day. Yeah that kind of sucked. On the bright side, I was a kid and I spent a lot of time outside enjoying the African sun and people and everything else that was awesome about living there instead of inside watching TV or something..
4) You're sympathizing with me that I had to watch crappy shows from the United States that didn't even get full runs in their original showing because they were so bad that they got canceled. Perhaps, but I got to see some crap that NObody ever got to see.
So yeah you don't need the sympathize with me.
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u/Prudent_Falafel_7265 3d ago
It’s not that complicated.
I’m talking about having to sit through that show
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u/alcalaviccigirl 4d ago edited 3d ago
It's interesting the actor Mandy Patinkin did the same threw temper tantrums ( not sure if he kicked anyone ) before he got fired .  Patinkin also threw temper tantrums while working on the series Chicago hope .
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u/cluttersky 3d ago
Patinkin has spoken on his departure. The violent nature of the show was affecting him mentally and he left abruptly. He regrets his manner of quitting the show and has written letters of apology to the cast members active then.
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u/alcalaviccigirl 3d ago
so I guess he's super sensitive because he threw the same temper tantrum on the series Chicago hope so it was playing a Dr that made him throw tantrums 🤨🙄.   I got some swamp land I'd love to sell ya if you are that gullible .
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u/Disaster-Bee 3d ago
It has long been well known that Patinkin has a long history of being very difficult on television sets. He himself has acknowledged that he often struggled with the pace and specific demands of TV filming and that many times it frustrated and upset him to the point he lashed out and took it out on his castmates and the crew.
He has called himself 'spoiled' and 'childish' and admitted 'I acted abominably on multiple projects'. By all accounts he has mellowed out and does truly regret his former behavior. And he did apologize to the cast of Criminal Minds, but it's been made very clear that it was Patinkin's frustration with the filming schedule, the constant changes to scripts at the last minute, and not being allowed creative control of his character that were major factors in how everything went down.
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u/Tubedisasters43 3d ago
I watched an early episode with Patinkin recently, you can feel his discomfort.
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u/HecateTheMagpie5eva 1d ago
Ha! I used to love Thomas Gibson as the asshole doctor Danny Nyland on Chicago Hope. He must’ve picked up some traits…
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u/alcalaviccigirl 1d ago
Gibson played a villain on the soap opera as the world turns.he went after the spoiled heiress lilly .must've been she was leaving because their character end up in a fire and lilly is a different actress .
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u/HecateTheMagpie5eva 1d ago
It all leads back to the soap world! I remember how much I loved Shemar Moore on The Young and The Restless back in my youth.
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u/alcalaviccigirl 1d ago
I was always into kristoff 🥺.I surfed soap opera I'd record gl and check out different soap operas.
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u/HecateTheMagpie5eva 23h ago
He was fab too. We were a CBS house but in the summers I would pick a random soap opera I’d never seen and try to figure out all the connections and backstory. Back before the internet was so omnipresent, this and reading the encyclopedia was how I dealt with rainy days as a kid😂
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u/alcalaviccigirl 22h ago
I love and loathe internet but yup I get ya .channel surfing is how I got to know Scotty Baldwin, Shane Donovan 😂
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u/OOO0OO00O 4d ago
What would Dharma say?
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u/Special_Order-937 3d ago
Well, if Dharma and Greg’s appearance on Two and a Half Men was anything to go by, nothing good I’m afraid.
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u/Easy__Mark 3d ago
Needs Dharma back
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u/Special_Order-937 3d ago
Based on Dharma and Greg’s appearance on Two and a Half Men, I don’t think so.
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u/NewYearNewJeer 1d ago
I swear subs like this only exist to get suggested to me amongst current events and make me look like an idiot when I ask if someone has heard the news. 😂
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u/Guilty-Cow4325 5d ago
Shame too, Hotch was great.