Rory Kinnear resigns from The Diplomat after playing British prime minister
Actor Rory Kinnear announced his departure from the Netflix series The Diplomat following episode four of its fourth season.
Surreal final scenes for Trowbridge
Kinnear's character, British prime minister Nicol Trowbridge, steps down midway through the latest season. In his final appearance, the actor imagines a deceased adviser is still alive and hallucinates that U.S. officials are mocking him. He also sings an opera aria while wearing both king and clown costumes during this surreal sequence.
Real life reasons for shakeup
Showrunner Debora Cahn stated there were grounded, real-life reasons for the government changes in this season. She noted that the actual United Kingdom had five different people at 10 Downing Street by the time production reached this point. These events felt essential to depicting the nature of being a diplomat.
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