One actor’s exit was a total shock for everyone
When Alexander told Bellisario that she wanted to leave the show, the writers were heartbroken but they agreed hesitantly. To finish her storyline with authenticity, they kept her entire ending a secret until it unfolded in front of her co-stars and the whole set.
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Weatherly and Alexander were rehearsing their scene and he then saw producers apply a blood pack to Sasha, quickly realizing she was being killed off. Weatherly flinched in the scene where Sasha gets shot and the whole cast was pretty shocked.