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The surprise announcement of S.W.A.T. Exiles gets an honest response from Jay Harrington, who plays Deacon. The news that Shemar Moore will reprise his role as Daniel “Hondo” Harrelson Jr. has received an overall mixed response. Harrington, who has been with the show since the start, recently struck a similarly conflicted tone.
In an interview with TVLine, Harrington shared his candid thoughts on the S.W.A.T. spinoff and shared how he found out about the project:
It was the day before. Shemar reached out to to all of us to say, “This is what’s going on…,” and, you know, there’s talk that they’ll reach out to us about stuff. He wanted to be the one to tell us, and say “your reps will find out shortly.” That’s when I told my reps, and they had no idea.
Look, I’ll be very clear. I’ve been in this business for a long time. You don’t get “owed” things just because you put in your time. If that’s the route they’re going to go, I wish it success. It’s just a fine line between “owed” and “just let me know,” for the studio just to say, “Hey, this is what we’re thinking…. It’s a new idea, but this is the route we gotta go, and unfortunately the way it’s structured, we want to make a clean break, start fresh.” Well, what do you say to that? “OK, well, good luck!” So if there was any disappointment, it’s that when they announced it, we weren’t mentioned at all. That was it. And it was short-lived because I thought, “I’m not going to let that take away from what I know in my heart is eight years of putting in some great work.”
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