The actress claims to have felt "confused and hurt" by her controversial departure from fiction, which had been broadcast for seven seasons
Released in 2009, Castle arrived in Spain a few months after its broadcast in the United States, marking that summer thanks to Stana Katic and Nathan Fillion, who had a legion of fans thanks to their participation in the series Firefly and his subsequent film Serenity. For the leading lady, who played Katherine Beckett, this was her first lead role on television after she rose to fame in 007: Quantum of Solace. They played a police inspector of the police in New York and a writer who begins to collaborate with the force after a murderer begins to imitate the crimes of his novels. Seven years later, the interpreter decided to leave fiction suddenly, when she had already finished filming the eighth with a ninth in mind. Despite the fact that many of the actors had already signed contracts to continue shooting, Castle was canceled.
Stana has remained silent during these years about the reasons that made her make the difficult decision to leave the series, which had won People's Choice Awards -for best drama fiction, actress and many others- consecutively from 2011 until its last year of issue. Also, in the first two years she was nominated for four Emmy Awards. Now, four years after the end of the series, the actress admits in an interview with the Australian News Corp that the experience was painful, but that she is grateful to have participated. "The experience was confusing and hurt," she shares. "But look, time has passed and I am very grateful to have been part of that project that reached so many people."
"People loved that couple and the story we told, all the characters," continues the interpreter, whom we interviewed in Madrid last year when she came to present the second season of her series Absentia. She then did not want to talk about Castle, because although she knows that it is one of the topics that most attracts her fans and those of fiction, she wanted to focus on her new project, in which she also works as producer. "It would be a disregard for the work I did, which I feel partially contributed to the success of the series, if I look back I am only grateful for its success," Stana insists on the fiction in which she worked with Fillion.
In 2018, she clarified some details about what happened two years before when she left the series. "It hurt me and it was a hard ending. I'm still not clear on the thought process that explains it," he assured EW, stating that he had met many wonderful people during the filming and that he is aware that any series that lasts eight seasons is a success, whichever way you look at it. Castle ended with a rushed ending that showed a future in which Beckett and Castle were still married seven years later with three children, happy and far from all the drama and danger that followed them during the years in which the plot took place.
The official version of Stana's departure and subsequent cancellation of the series was budget problems. In 2016, she was the seventh highest paid actress on television with 10 million euros per season and Nathan Fillion received the same amount, an emblem of salary parity that has not yet been achieved in Hollywood. However, the rumors published by the specialized industry media ensured that the two protagonists got along fatally and that is why they were separated for much of the eighth and final season. It has never been confirmed, of course.
