House of Cards star Robin Wright has admitted that “nobody knew what to do” initially in the wake of Kevin Spacey being fired from the show.
The actor was axed from the Netflix series after he was accused of sexual misconduct last year, with Wright leading the charge to save House of Cards and produce a final season.
Opening up about the immediate aftermath last year, the Claire Underwood actress told The Late Show with Stephen Colbert of keeping the show going.
She said of Spacey’s firing: “It was a collective decision. All of us on board, all of the producers just said, ‘Yes, we need to be sensitive to the climate,’ because it was very heightened at the time. Nobody really knew what to do.
“And this is our final season, and I think we all mulled it over and said, ‘Why are we going to let down the fans, let’s finish it off the way we always intended, contractually’.
“First and foremost, we would have put 2,500 people out of employment. And I said, ‘Let’s just go out with a bang, let’s give them an end, close out the show’.”
Spacey’s character Frank Underwood is killed off ahead of the final season, and earlier this week the series’ co-showrunner Melissa James Gibson admitted it would have been a “big mistake” to just “erase” Spacey from the show.
“We didn’t want to be coy about it and we didn’t want to run away from it,” she said. “It would have been a big mistake to in any way pretend that the character didn’t exist or to erase the character somehow.”
House of Cards returns to Netflix on November 2.
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