The third season of the television series New Amsterdam is now available on Netflix. Viewers discovered that a lead actor left the cast.
This should greatly sadden fans of New Amsterdam. Season 3 of this medical television series – the episodes of which were filmed during the Covid-19 pandemic, in 2020 and 2021 – has been available on Netflix for a few days now. Very quickly, viewers realized that one of the main actors of this successful show created by David Schulner – who integrated the top 10 most watched series in France via this streaming platform – had left the cast.
More specifically, it isAnupam Kher, an Indian actor, director and film producerwho lent his features to the Dr Vijay Kapoor in the American show launched in 2018. How to explain that this emblematic figure of the castwhich had been present since the first hour, suddenly left this series mainly carried by Ryan Eggold (who plays Dr. Max Goodwin, the hospital’s medical director) and Freema Agyeman (who plays Dr. Helen Sharpe, the head of the oncology department)?
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New Amsterdam: why did the actor leave?
Specifically, fans of New Amsterdam realized, when watching season 3, that Anupam Kher only appeared in the first two episodes. Moreover, he is never present again in the fourth and fifth seasons which have already aireddetails Allocinatedin an article published Friday, June 9.
Why did Anupam Kher stop filming in this American series? So far, the actor has never spoken about it. Nevertheless, family reasons may have motivated his decision. Indeed, the English-language Indian daily Hindustan Times revealed in 2020 that his wife had suffered at the same time from blood cancer.
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