"Quantum Leap" EPs Reassure Fans about Ernie Hudson’s Role in Season 2

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"Quantum Leap" EPs Reassure Fans about Ernie Hudson’s Role in Season 2
by Keisha Hatchett
Oct. 6, 2023


"Quantum Leap‘s" “Magic” isn’t going to vanish into thin air.

Co-showrunner Martin Gero confirms to TVLine that Ernie Hudson‘s Herbert “Magic” Williams, who led the Quantum Leap project in Season 1 of the NBC drama, will not be replaced by Peter Gadiot’s Tom Westfall, who debuts next Wednesday.

A previous casting announcement revealed that Tom will oversee the Quantum Leap project in Season 2, leaving fans concerned about how that would impact Magic’s role in the new season.




“[Tom is] alongside Magic on more of an administrative level, and you’ll see [in] Episode 2 what that means,” Gero explains. “But no, we would never get rid of the legendary Ernie Hudson, who continues to be an incredible presence on the show. In fact, we get to learn even more about Magic this year. We really have the space for it in such an incredible way.”

Co-showrunner Dean Georgaris notes that if anything, “Tom gives Magic another person to talk to, and to talk about a subject that we didn’t get to talk to that much in Season 1, which is the greater purpose of a project like Quantum Leap. We get to see and hear Magic’s perspective on, ‘What is the technology really about and what are we supposed to do?’”



How the Quantum Leap project will proceed moving forward remains a big question mark, though, considering the major plot twist in the Season 2 premiere.

https://tvline.com/news/quantum-leap...ed-1235056289/