BTG: First-ever role recast!

[Liberty City]

[dragonflies]

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[Liberty City]

We don't know if Maurice Johnson chose to leave or not; he could've opted to exit the role. We don't know yet. Or perhaps they took the character in a different direction. I do know that Keith D. Robinson is a strong actor and I do believe he'll be a great successor in the role.

[Vee]

Not Ted!

[soapfan770]

Honestly I was totally expecting this to be a recast of the actor playing Martin when I first clicked this.

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I like the actor playing Ted so far but every soap has had its first year growing pains and recasts. Hopefully Robinson, who I know is a much bigger name and I’ve seen give good performances before will be just as good and fit in well.

Edited March 21 by soapfan770

[Vee]

Original Ted was just tweeting about the show a couple days ago! He's so fine too. This is far from the first recast I expected lol, there are several others who need to go.

[Chris B]

Derek, Ashley, even Martin (although I love him), but sexy Turtleneck Ted?! I would've never guessed this. He was my favorite on the show and by far the best looking in a cast of stunners. 

I do find it interesting the new actor will be premiering in May. They were filming the beginning of May when the show was on the promo tour. That means Maurice has known he was let go likely very the time the show premiered. Still, he has been nonstop tweeting and promoting the show in a positive way. That is very classy of him and I hope he lands on his feet soon.

I'll give the new Ted a chance, the new actor is fine as hell as well. Just completely shocked that *this* is the role they recast.

[Darn]

Great, now we can get Andre, Jacob and Ted confused.

But really, he doesn’t look old enough to be Martin’s father (Daphnee doesn’t look old enough to be his mother either). I wonder what happened, the actor who played Ted was hardly one of the show’s problems.

[NothinButAttitude]

Love Keith Robinson as he was the green Lightspeed Rescue Ranger and he played on Half & Half a few episodes, but I liked Maurice Johnson. He was a good find for this show. I am hoping that he chose to left versus them getting rid of him b/c if the latter, I need to have a chat with production. 

If anyone needs to be recast, it is Derek. 

But even for a new soap, I think it is too early to be recasting on production's side. I don't need this show panning out to be like Santa Barbara or Loving where they were recasting like it wasn't a joke. 

[AbcNbc247]

Damn.

I expected us get news like this at some point, but not about Ted/Maurice 

[Khan]

Just be happy they're recasting this "Ted" fellow and not sending him off to camp or upstairs to wax his skis.  (Hi, Bobby Martin!)

[alwaysAMC]

Wow - shocking - so early and this character!

[Liberty City]

It is worth noting (not that age matters in soaps), but Robinson is three-years older than Johnson, so this is an age-up for the role.

[dragonflies]

I just hope he has the chemistry with DP and the actress who plays Leslie like Maurice does 

[Chris B]

Although I didn't want this role recast, I do think 13 weeks is enough to know if someone is working in a role or not and considering the choice is 13 weeks or 26 (unless you wanna pay them not to work), I say go for it. But Ted? I'm still shocked by this.

 

This is interesting! He's older but at least in that Deadline photo he looks younger. When it comes to Black actors I just wait and see what is portrayed on screen. You can never tell how old we are anyway.