Back in May, Fox announced that they picked up Last Man Standing for another season, a year after ABC cancelled it. It seemed like all of the cast was going to make the move, but turns out they are not.
TV Line is reporting that Molly Ephraim, who plays Tim Allen’s middle daughter, and her TV nephew, Flynn Morrison, have decided not to rejoin the show on its new home. Instead, their roles will be recast.
This is not the first time they have recast a lead role. Alexandra Krosney, who played the oldest daughter, the first season, was replaced by Amanda Fuller for the second season and is still playing the part. When it comes to the youngest daughter on the show, the site reports that Kaitlyn Dever is still in discussions for a recurring role. Her character left for military school, so her disappearance could easily be explained.
When it comes to who is coming back besides Allen, so his TV wife Nancy Travis, their eldest daughter, Fuller and her TV husband Jordan Masterson, their TV brother-in-law Christoph Sanders as his TV boss Hector Elizondo and finally so is the Baxters’ next-door neighbor Jonathan Adams.
When it comes to the departures, I will miss Ephraim. Not many people could make a self-centered character so lovable.
