These Stars Didn't Return for Their TV Revivals: Find Out Why

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Five years aft the MTV bid ended its archetypal run, Teen Wolf roared backmost to beingness connected Jan. 26 with the Paramount+ follow-up film. The highly anticipated movie recovered Tyler Posey, Crystal Reed, Tyler Hoechlin, Holland Roden and Colton Haynes returning to Beacon Hills for different supernatural ride. But 1 OG formed subordinate was missing successful action: Dylan O'Brien

O'Brien, who played the beloved quality Stiles throughout Teen Wolf's six-season run, decided not to reprise the relation for the wolf pack's comeback. But helium wasn't the lone alum to walk connected appearing successful the project, arsenic Arden Cho (a.k.a. Kitsune Kira, who joined the amusement successful play three) besides declined the offer. 

And O'Brien and Cho are conscionable the latest actors to determine not to instrumentality a nonrecreational locomotion down representation lane, joining a database of stars specified arsenic iCarly's Jennette McCurdy, Criminal Minds' Matthew Gray Gubler and Full House's Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen

So, wherefore did they each accidental thanks, but nary thanks? 

Look backmost connected each of these OG stars who decided not to instrumentality for their respective show's revival:

MTV

Dylan O'Brien, Teen Wolf: The Movie

Fans of the archetypal MTV supernatural bid were near howling astatine the satellite erstwhile Dylan O'Brien, who played fan-favorite Stiles, revealed helium would not revive the relation successful the Paramount+'s follow-up film.

"It was a hard decision," O'Brien told Variety successful March 2022. "A batch went into it." O'Brien went connected to recognition the teen drama arsenic the archetypal large project he ever did and that "so galore radical determination are highly beloved to me."

However, O'Brien said helium "didn't truly cognize that it was happening" until the movie was officially announced, though helium did effort to "figure it out" earlier making his last decision.

"Ultimately, I conscionable decided it was near successful a truly bully spot for maine and I inactive privation to permission it there," The Maze Runner prima explained. "I privation them good and I'm going to ticker it the archetypal nighttime it comes out. I anticipation it f--king kicks ass, but I'm not going to beryllium successful it."

MTV

Arden Cho, Teen Wolf: The Movie

O'Brien isn't the lone Teen Wolf alum who yet chose not to instrumentality for the movie.

Arden Cho, who played Thunder Kitsune Kira, successful seasons 3 done 5 until she was abruptly chopped from the amusement successful 2016, opened up to The Cut successful May 2022 astir wherefore she turned down the connection to look in Teen Wolf: The Movie

Cho revealed she made the decision after discovering from unnamed sources that she was paid fractional of what her pistillate co-stars were earning per episode. "I deliberation I was really offered adjacent less," she told the outlet, adding that she didn't leak the story. "I astir apt would've ne'er shared it." 

As for however she discovered this inequity, Cho declined to share, explaining that she does "appreciate artists who are a small spot much transparent due to the fact that they recognize that we're each important."

HBO

Kim Cattrall, And Just Like That...

Following a longrunning nationalist feud with her erstwhile co-star Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall didn't astonishment Sex and the City fans erstwhile it was announced Kim Cattrall would not beryllium returning arsenic Samantha Jones successful the HBO Max revival series. But were they inactive disappointed? Abso-f--king-lutely.

While she was erstwhile a cardinal fig successful the archetypal HBO amusement and its 2 follow-up movies, successful 2017 the histrion decided that it was precocious clip she determination on, adjacent arsenic a 3rd film was being written. "It's a large contented to cognize erstwhile capable is enough," she told Variety successful May of past year. "I besides didn't privation to compromise what the amusement was to me. The mode guardant seemed clear."

And, contempt Samantha inactive having a large beingness connected And Just Like That... without Cattrall appearing on-screen, viewers shouldn't expect to spot her backmost successful New York City anytime soon. 

"It would ne'er happen," Cattrall said erstwhile asked astir perchance joining the show. "I don't ever privation to beryllium connected a acceptable and not privation to beryllium there."

Paramount+/Nickelodeon

Jennette McCurdy, iCarly

Best known for originating Sam Puckett connected the Nickelodeon series and aboriginal reprising the relation on Sam & Cat with Ariana Grande, Jennette McCurdy explained connected her Empty Inside podcast that not only has she stopped acting, but her Hollywood occurrence doesn't capable her with pride. 

"I discontinue a fewer years agone due to the fact that I initially didn't privation to bash it," she shared successful a March 2021 episode, going connected to explain that her ma had encouraged her to commencement acting astatine a young age, and that her gigs ended up supporting her household financially. But she decided to alteration vocation paths aft her ma died successful 2013 pursuing a conflict with cancer. 

"My acquisition with acting is, I'm truthful ashamed of the parts I've done successful the past," McCurdy continued. "I resent my vocation successful a batch of ways. I consciousness truthful unfulfilled by the roles that I played and felt similar it was the astir cheesy, embarrassing. I did the shows that I was connected from similar 13 to 21, and by 15, I was already embarrassed. My friends astatine 15, they're not like, 'Oh, cool, you're connected this Nickelodeon show.' It was embarrassing."

Starz

Lizzy Caplan, Party Down

Unfortunately for fans of Starz's cult-favorite comedy, Lizzy Caplan was incapable to reprise the relation of caterer Casey owed to scheduling conflicts with the FX bid Fleishman Is successful Trouble and Paramount+'s upcoming Fatal Attraction remake.

CBS

Matthew Gray Gubler and Shemar Moore, Criminal Minds: Evolution

While Joe Mantegna, A.J. Cook, Kirsten Vangsness, Aisha Tyler, Adam Rodriguez and Paget Brewster all reprised their roles arsenic the BAU's apical profilers, fan-favorite archetypal formed members Matthew Gray Gubler and Shemare Moore sat the Paramount+ bid out—for now.

Showrunner Erica Messer told E! News past September that Dr. Spencer Reid and Derek Morgan could look successful aboriginal seasons. 

"Their desks volition inactive person worldly connected them. They haven't gone away," Messer said. "If and erstwhile they return, it's up to them. It's babelike connected their schedules. I can't committedness thing close now. But it's the hope."

Netflix

Melissa McCarthy, Gilmore Girls: A Year successful the Life

OK, technically Melissa McCarthy did instrumentality for Gilmore Girls: A Year successful the Life, but that wasn't ever the plan. Her cameo didn't instrumentality spot until aft nationalist outcry and a batch of backmost and distant successful the press between the Oscar nominee and creator Amy Sherman-Palladino. McCarthy said she wasn't asked aft Sherman-Palladino said she was so approached, yadda, yadda, yadda, she came backmost for a speedy scene.

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Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, Fuller House

When Fuller House was announced, Mary-Kate Olsen and Ashley Olsen said they were amazed by the revival quality and would person to earnestly see whether oregon not either of them would instrumentality to the satellite of the Tanner family. If you've missed each the jokes Fuller House has made astir their absence, well, we're present to archer you they didn't travel back. There was adjacent thought astir replacing them with sister Elizabeth Olsen, but that went nowhere. And by the clip Fuller House ended its five-season tally successful 2020, the Tanner location was inactive Olsen-less.

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Eve Plumb, The Brady Bunch Hour

Here's the story, of a celebrated recast. Eve Plumb, known to the satellite arsenic Jan Brady, was replaced by Geri Reischl successful the 1976 revival of The Brady Bunch—both the archetypal assortment peculiar and the aboriginal series. Time and rumors person twisted the communicative of wherefore she was absent. "I enjoyed doing The Brady Bunch bid and I wanted to bash the special, but determination was a built successful enactment for 13 much shows and perchance 5 years," she said successful 1976. "I americium 18 present and I consciousness I tin turn some professionally and personally."

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Maureen McCormick, The Bradys

Here's the communicative of different celebrated recast, but this clip with Marcia Brady. Though Maureen McCormick did instrumentality for the 1988 TV movie A Very Brady Christmas, which was a deed and spawned The Bradys, a one-hour melodramatic series. And with McCormick having conscionable fixed commencement earlier filming, Leah Ayres stepped successful to instrumentality implicit the role. Meanwhile, Jennifer Runyon replaced Susan Olsen arsenic Cindy, the youngest Brady, successful A Very Brady Christmas, arsenic the movie was changeable portion Olsen was connected her honeymoon.

Netflix

Bradley Cooper, Wet Hot American Summer: Ten Years Later

Bradley Cooper returned for Netflix's Wet Hot prequel series, Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp, but wasn't disposable for the sequel series, Ten Years Later. How'd the powers that beryllium explicate it? His quality got a chemoreceptor occupation and was past played by Adam Scott.

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Lara Flynn Boyle, Twin Peaks

After being recast successful Fire Walk With Me, the Twin Peaks prequel film, Lara Flynn Boyle was besides obscurity to beryllium recovered successful the Twin Peaks revival, on with Heather Graham and Piper Laurie. In the series, Flynn Boyle played Donna, the champion person of Laura Palmer. When asked wherefore she wasn't successful the revival, bid co-creator David Lynch told TVLine, "These days radical emotion unusual Hollywood broadside stories that person thing to bash with the film. You tin spell speech to Lara Flynn Boyle. This is simply a communicative that takes spot without her."

Fox

Robert Patrick, The X-Files

The information is retired determination astir Robert Patrick's lack from The X-Files revival: Scheduling conflicts with his CBS play Scorpion. No conspiracy being orchestrated by the Cigarette Smoking Man here, conscionable plain aged scheduling conflicts.

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