04.06 | Why the '24' writers killed off Claudia...
Apparently this month's Cult Times has an interview with Vanessa Ferlito, who played Jack's 'fling' Claudia in the third season of '24' and who is currently appearing in 'CSI: New York'. In it, she reveals that she left '24' of her own accord halfway through the season. So the writers killed her off:
"Kiefer was a doll," she says. "It was a great experience. I'm not Latin, so I got to come up with a different accent. What a great cast and crew. I cried when I had to leave. They didn't want me to go, but I made the choice because I got 'Man of the House' and I wanted to do a movie and I wanted to work with Tommy Lee Jones. So I got the best of both worlds. I did 12 episodes of '24' and in the middle of that I started working on 'Man of the House'.Serves her right. The transcript of this comes from the Mission Log.And with Ferlito having made her choice, '24's writers elected to kill off Claudia, although the original plan was reportedly to hook up the two characters. So, in day three's 10PM-11PM, Claudia died helping Chase flee his captors. "I was sad," the actress says of her character's demise. "I was crying. It was horrible. But I had to go. I had to go. I had to move on. And I'm glad I did. It was the best move I ever made."
