Skylar Astin Joins "Crazy Ex-Girlfriend's" Final Season

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Skylar Astin Cast in "Crazy Ex-Girlfriend's" Fourth & Final Season – TCA
by Denise Petski
August 6, 2018


Pitch Perfect breakout Skylar Astin is heading to "Crazy Ex-Girlfriend" for its fourth and final season, it was revealed today at TCA.

No character details revealed, only that Astin’s character will be a love interest for Rebecca Bunch (Rachel Bloom).

Season 4 premieres Oct. 12th on The CW.

https://deadline.com/2018/08/crazy-e...ca-1202440798/

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Pitch Perfect Star Skylar Astin Joins "Crazy Ex-Girlfriend" as "Reimagined" Greg
by Chancellor Agard
August 6, 2018


Greg is back! Aline Brosh McKenna and Rachel Bloom revealed that Skylar Astin will be playing a reimagining of Greg, Rachel’s love interest from the first season.

The role was previously played by Santino Fontana, who left the show at the beginning of season 2, and in bringing the character back, the show hopes to explore how perception changes.





“Rachel and I had always been exploring bringing back that character and sort trying to figure out a way to do it in a way that suited our show and also because we felt like we had taken the resolution we wanted for Greg and kind of jammed it into those first 4 episodes of the second season,” McKenna told reporters at the Television Critics Association press tour.

“We felt like we had completed his arc a bit. Now bringing the character of Greg back, he is part of our storytelling. It’s a plot point in the story that the character is reimagined, so it’s going to be played by a different actor, which is Skylar.”

Bloom added: “It’s not only a big leap and feels experimental and playful like our show, but as we’ll see when the show airs, it’s a great statement on how our perception of people changes, and Greg is sort of a barometer for how Rebecca changes.”





McKenna and Bloom decided not to have Fontana reprise the role for the final season because they felt as though they’d wrapped up that portion of the story already; however, they did let Fontana know what they were planning to do.

“We let Santino know because we have the highest respect for him,” said McKenna.





Bloom says that the episode where Greg returns plays with, “the ideas and themes of perception, how he sees her, and how other people see each other.”

Furthermore, the show, which can be quite meta, will comment on the recasting, too. “We’re going to call it out. It’s not a Becky on Roseanne situation where suddenly it’s a different person,” said Bloom.

http://ew.com/tv/2018/08/06/skylar-a...love-interest/

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Crazy Ex-Girlfriend taps Pitch Perfect's Skyler Astin to play a "reimagined" version of Greg
“Rachel (Bloom) and I had always been exploring bringing back that character and sort of trying to figure out a way to do it that suited our show,” said co-creator Aline Brosh McKenna of the Greg role, originally played by Santino Fontana. “So now bringing the character of Greg back, he is part of our storytelling. It’s a plot point in the story that the character is reimagined and so he’s going to be played by a different actor, which is Skylar.” ALSO: Rachel Bloom on Crazy Ex-Girlfriend musical: “It’s not not happening. It’s just, you know, Broadway’s hard.”

Crazy Ex-Girlfriend alum Santino Fontana reacts to being replaced by Skyler Astin
Earlier this month, Rachel Bloom and Aline Brosh McKenna revealed that Astin has been cast as a "reimagined" version of Fontana's Greg Serrano. “I love Skylar! He’s a buddy of mine,” said Fontana when asked about Astin's casting, adding: “We’ve been texting, we’ve got a whole back-and-forth going. We’re brothers from the same mother. That’s what I’m calling it. Brothers from the same mother.”