ABC has officially renewed the mystery drama, Secrets and Lies. The show will move to Wednesdays at 10:00 p.m. eastern, as a midseason fill in for Nashville. Ryan Phillippe’s character Ben Crawford will not be returning for Season 2. The only actor returning to the series is Juliette Lewis, as Detective Cornell.
Ryan Phillippe recently spoke with ABC News about how the role took a toll on his personal life:
"I lost 15 to 20 pounds over the course of shooting. You're playing a character who is accused and threatened and whose life is falling apart… It's hard not to have some of that come home with you or to kind of affect your mood. If you're playing someone who's distraught and that's the state of mind that you're in as an actor for an entire day, that's really taxing."
Phillippe was attracted to the limited run of the role, adding:
"I was sort of afraid of it. I was afraid of not only the workload but the intensity of it and I guess the parts of it that relate to my life, like being a father and having to deal with the media scrutiny that my character does and sort of having to transpose that into my personal life and being somewhat famous for a while and what that does to your kids.
"I didn't feel like I was ready yet to sign up for a seven- or eight-year contract on a show primarily because I'm a dad and my daughter is in high school and you don't get to decide where some of those shows shoot and for how long."
Major Spoiler Alert: Ryan Phillippe couldn’t return even he wanted to. In the webisode, "Cornell: Confidential: 14 Months Later," it is strongly hinted that Ben Crawford died while in prison.
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