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How Nathan Fillion transitioned from ‘Castle’ star to a police rookie?

Television series have evolved a lot throughout their history. Many of them have surprised with novel plots that use a different format, and in 2009, ‘Castle’ it was one of them. A cop comedy series starring a novelist, Richard Castlewho was played by a Nathan Fillion who ended up becoming a star on the small screen.

Between 2009 and 2016, Fillion stood out on ABC thanks to the series in which he was a a perfect tandem with Stana Katicwho did not renew for a ninth season, and who led to the beginning of the end, well the series ended up being canceled despite the great audience data it was building. “It was not the beautiful farewell that I imagine you expected. It’s the entertainment industry, it’s a business, I understand it”, said the protagonist then in an interview with the ‘New York Post’.

The goodbye of Stana Katic and the cancellation of the series

The cancellation came in a rush after eight seasons, with contractual disputes between different cast members and the chain that ended up breaking the relationship that linked them.

The Canadian actor went from helping solve crimes to the abyss that is the end of a series. And it is that after a great project like ‘Castle’, which won numerous People’s Choice Awards, he went through various television projects in the form of small roles, such as in ‘Community’, ‘Modern Family’, ‘Brooklyn Nine-Nine’, ‘Santa Clarita Diet’ and an appearance in ‘The Big Bang Theory’.

Currently

He could not find a fixed place in an industry that had placed him at the top, until two years later, in 2018, when ‘The Rookie’ appeared in his life. A series in which he acts as executive producer and as the protagonist, with the role of John Nolanwhere he plays a middle-aged man who decides to take a radical turn in his life and become a police officer.

A role that he began to play in 2018, and that he still has today. In fact, in November 2022 the fifth season of the serieswhich has returned him to the place he arrived with ‘Castle’.

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