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I know Claire Holt wanted to exit from a series regular and was very willing to guest star, but in s1 ep 16, her goodbye to everyone sounds really permanent, was she supposed to leave the show forever and ended up deciding to guest star because the way that episode ends, her speech to Hayley sounds like they didn’t think she was coming back.
This is her quote about her exit.
“I want to be very clear that they didn’t run out of material, I wasn’t pushed out, I wasn’t fed up with Rebekah, I didn’t quit mid-season, there was no drama, there was no rift between cast members; it really came down to the fact that I completed my initial commitment and made a life choice, not a career choice.”
She follows up by saying her absence from the show will be temporary and she hasn’t taken a long term role since. She’s very family oriented and I think being away from home for such long periods of time just wasn’t for her.
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They didn’t know when she’d be back, just that she would be. So for all they knew at that time it could have been for 20 more episodes or just the last ever episode so they gave everyone some closure with her just in case.
Julie makes such dumb decisions, it wouldn’t have been surprising if half the cast were dead by the time she returned.