'Cruel Intentions' showrunners Sara Goodman and Phoebe Fisher explain why movie alum Sean Patrick Thomas plays a totally new character in the Prime Video series.
"We weren't making the movie. To then bring that character into our new world would've been confusing," showrunner Sara Goodman says.Sydney Bucksbaum is a writer at Entertainment Weekly covering all things pop culture – but TV is her one true love. She currently lives in Los Angeles but grew up in Chicago so please don't make fun of her accent when it slips out..
In the 1999 movie, Thomas played the young music tutor who falls in love with Blair's naive Cecile Caldwell. But now, in the series, the actor is portraying Professor Chadwick, a history teacher at the fictional Manchester College near Washington, D.C. Yes, he'll still be teaching CeCe Carroway , the character based on Cecile, but now in a much more formal and professional atmosphere.that they never considered having Thomas reprise his movie character in the series.
Fisher remembers being shocked that he was even an option for them to cast as Professor Chadwick. "'We can do that?!'" she says with a laugh. "Yeah, we fangirled, for sure," Goodman agrees. "I think that was to his benefit and to ours because we wrote Chadwick as a full character who had overlap with the character he played in the original, obviously, but was a full-fledged part of our world and very important soul-beating heart of Manchester College."film alums, either. "He was the only one that we reached out to," Goodman reveals.
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