Author: Danielle Turchiano / Source: Variety
When The CW’s “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend” returns for its fourth and final season this fall, it will do so with a “reimagining” of the character of Greg.
Played originally by Santino Fontana in the freshman year, the character was involved in a love triangle with ’s titular character, Rebecca Bunch, and her childhood sweetheart-turned-hopeful-adult-love Josh Chan (Vincent Rodriguez III).
In the fourth and final season, he will be played by Skylar Astin.Co-creator and showrunner Aline Brosh McKenna shared at the Television Critics Assn. press tour panel for the show Monday that they always planned to bring the character back, but when Fontana did not sign on for a full second season, they “jammed” the resolution they wanted for Greg into the first four episodes and “that completed his arc.”
“In thinking about bringing him back, we knew right away that it would be a reimagining, and that’s part of the story,” McKenna says, admitting the “first thing” they did when they realized that was to reach out to Fontana.
“With an actor leaving suddenly, it left this exciting gap. His character’s almost become like lore in the show,” Bloom added. “We have this opportunity to bring back this mythic figure and look at him in a new way.”
Bringing in a new version of Greg now feels “not only a big leap and feels experimental and playful for our show,” said co-creator and star Rachel Bloom, “but as you see when the show airs it will be kind of a great statement on how our perception of people changes. … Greg is a barometer…
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