I love love LOVE Cordelia and thought Charisma was great, but I heard a different version of the story. I heard that she waited until the very last minute to tell him she was pregnant, after the staff had written the latter part of S4 leading up to a big confrontation with Angel vs. possessed Cordy. Since Charisma would not be able to pull off those scenes in her condition, they had to rewrite everything. I've also heard numerous stories about her being *incredibly* difficult to work with.
Obviously there are two sides to every story, but Joss going out of his way to screw over a pregnant woman out of spite doesn't seem to fit with some of his other actions. I mean, when they fired Glenn Quinn, Joss told the press and the fans that he had always planned to kill off Doyle, when really Quinn's drug problem made it impossible to work with him. But Joss allowed the fans to get angry with him, I guess to not jeopardize Quinn in any other opportunities.
So anyway, I really don't know which version is true. That's just the one I heard.
She found out through the press. She found out she'd lost her job. Through the press.
See, that's the exact same line Alyson Hannigan gave - she said the cast had to find out that BtVS wasn't returning through EW and SMG didn't have the courtesy to tell the cast herself. Then Nicholas Brendon, James Marsters, and Anthony Stewart Head immediately denied AH's statement and said she was full of shit (in a much nicer way than I just said it). So that comment raises a red flag in my mind.
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Obviously there are two sides to every story, but Joss going out of his way to screw over a pregnant woman out of spite doesn't seem to fit with some of his other actions. I mean, when they fired Glenn Quinn, Joss told the press and the fans that he had always planned to kill off Doyle, when really Quinn's drug problem made it impossible to work with him. But Joss allowed the fans to get angry with him, I guess to not jeopardize Quinn in any other opportunities.
So anyway, I really don't know which version is true. That's just the one I heard.
She found out through the press. She found out she'd lost her job. Through the press.
See, that's the exact same line Alyson Hannigan gave - she said the cast had to find out that BtVS wasn't returning through EW and SMG didn't have the courtesy to tell the cast herself. Then Nicholas Brendon, James Marsters, and Anthony Stewart Head immediately denied AH's statement and said she was full of shit (in a much nicer way than I just said it). So that comment raises a red flag in my mind.