From an Interview with NY Mag
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The next year, he signed on to star in CBS procedural Criminal Minds but abruptly left in 2007, before the third season began, to the shock of the show’s creators.
Patinkin only recently began opening up in interviews about that departure. “The biggest public mistake I ever made was that I chose to do Criminal Minds in the first place,” he says. “I thought it was something very different. I never thought they were going to kill and rape all these women every night, every day, week after week, year after year. It was very destructive to my soul and my personality. After that, I didn’t think I would get to work in television again.”
Even though Homeland has its own share of violence, Patinkin sees its message as antithetical to shows like Criminal Minds. “I’m not making a judgment on the taste [of people who watch crime procedurals],” he says. “But I’m concerned about the effect it has. Audiences all over the world use this programming as their bedtime story. This isn’t what you need to be dreaming about. A show like Homeland is the antidote. It asks why there’s a need for violence in the first place.”
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Source: Full Interview @ nymag
Criminal Minds - Mandy Patinkin - Biggest public mistake I ever made
11 Sept 2012
Criminal Minds Homeland
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Was just getting ready to post this. LOL.
ReplyDeleteAnd yeah, you knew what the show was about when you signed up for it. Don't blame that game. And didn't he just walk off the set and leave them scrambling?
Rossi is a much better character than Gideon anyway.
He's an ass.
ReplyDeleteWhat a load of bull. Way to bite the hand that feeds you!
ReplyDeletewhat a GIT.
ReplyDeleteYeah I'm pretty sure he did, if he was unhappy with the show then i'm sure there could have been better ways of going about expressing his feelings than just not turning up for work.
ReplyDeleteI really don't understand who he could have read the script and thought that it wouldn't be about murder, the whole show revolves around a group of people who explore the minds of really horrible induviduals, you would have thought he'd would've gotten a clue from the name alone.
He's a prat!!! Never liked him!! Delighted he left!!!! :D !!!
ReplyDeleteSomeone else made the point that maybe he signed up for it thinking it'd be handled differently or something, which is valid, but the way he's handling this - even now - is completely unprofessional.
ReplyDeleteIt took him 2 seasons to realize what kind of show he's on? He must be slow. And it's not about him leaving- people leave all the time. He should have negotiated out of his contract or voiced his concerns instead of just not showing up for work on the first day of S3 and leaving the crew and cast uncertain about their future employment because of him.
ReplyDeleteHow unpolite of him. It is like saying that he was either very stupid or just interested in the paycheck even if it went against his personal convictions.
ReplyDeleteBuuuuuut, even though I really like procedurals and particularly Criminal Minds, I get what he is talking about. I don't think that it is very healthy that the broader audience (including some pretty sick minds out there) is fed violence night after night on TV. It is far away from a cultural utopia, yet not really avoidable in this day and age. How could one still be thrilled by a procedural when it shows less blood than CNN?
In times when pretty much everything has to be "in your face", I don't think that fictional procedures in which the bad guy usually ends up getting caught is really a serious problem. If he can't deal with it or firmly believes this to be something very toxic for society in general, he shouldn't have taken the role in the first place or at least shut his mouth and stop spitting on the hand that fed him.
I just had gotten more respect for him. An actor with a conciouss it's rare these days when someone actually voices a valid concern about effects violence, rape, abuse sex has on viewers watching it.
ReplyDeleteEvery time he works on a series, he always ends up quitting. So if he is on homeland he will find a way to quit that show too. We'll see when and where with this show
ReplyDeleteit is too bad because he seems to be a very good actor, but I guess the head is not always in the right place
ReplyDeleteHomeland has 1000 time more violence sex then Criminal Minds . Hate it when these actors do a role then hate on it
ReplyDeleteWait. So he's saying that he didn't know that a series about the people who profile and catch sadistic serial killers was going to feature sadistic serial killers? RIIIIIIIIIIGHT. Give me a break. What was the "destruction to his soul" that caused him to do the EXACT same thing (namely walk off the show in the middle of his contract) when he was on Chicago Hope? Get over yourself, Patinkin. And people of "Homeland?" Watch out. He'll be walking off your show within a year. It's what he does.
ReplyDeleteDon't be ridiculous. It's just words to justify is inexcusable behavior. He did the EXACT SAME THING when on Chicago Hope. Just quit.
ReplyDeleteNot only that, he walked out on Chicago Hope, too.
ReplyDeleteso? Im not gonna get into a debate but what he says and does is his business and it's not my call to flip out.
ReplyDeleteThat twit has an ego the size of Jupiter and a brain the size of a gnats
ReplyDeleteWhat's inexcusable about it? People leave jobs all the time.
ReplyDeleteI agree that he's reasoning behind leaving may have been valid, but he certianly shouldn't have just refused to turn up to work. He should've talked to the producers and come up with a way for him to amicably leave the show and I agree he really shouldn't be complaining about it in this manner this many years later it's completely unprofessional.
ReplyDeleteIt's sad because he's a decent actor, I loved him in Dead Like Me.
True, but he literally didn't show up to work one day and left everyone scrambling.
ReplyDeleteI agree with some of the things he says,i'm not here to debate that. I stopped watching the show a few years ago because i got tired of all the kidnapping,rapes,and murders,same with L&OSVU i got tired of all the kiddy porn,rape murder of kids and women.To watch this week in and week out for years is pretty crazy imo,what enjoyment does one get from watching these shows,what does one learn? I walked away when i realized watching these shows made me feel so uncomfortable in my own skin.
ReplyDeleteI don´t know him and I don´t judge him. But the comment that he left Criminal Minds because of rape scenes seems a little fake, because in the Homeland PILOT (!) you have the disgusting sex scene between Brody and Jessica, which felt like rape to me ( I couldn´t watch it). And he stayed.
ReplyDeleteAgreed. Rossi is quality. I watched one episode with Gideon in, and I wanted to give up CM. Poor character.
ReplyDeleteI get how going to work and focusing on murder, kidapping, and rape every day could take its toll. It seems the show effected Mandy the same way the job effected Gideon.
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