One of Lucas Till’s MacGyver Colleagues are sending the actor a virtual hug after he took a very public position against his embattled former boss.
Meredith Eaton, who plays Matilda “Matty” Webber on the CBS procedure, tweeted a photo Monday night of her and the Till characters sharing a warm hug. The gesture came a few hours later. Vanity Fair He published an explosive story about the fired showrunner Peter M. Lenkov in which Till, who plays the lead role, alleged that he endured numerous cases of verbal abuse, intimidation, and bodily shame while working alongside the EP.
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– MEREDITH EATON (@MerEaton) July 21, 2020
Included in the Vanity Fair The piece was an excerpt from a note Till had sent to the CBS human resources department that Lenkov pressured Eaton to return to work after an injury (an accusation that Lenkov denies). “Meredith suffered an injury on set that was not treated properly … and she had to undergo hip replacement surgery and home care to recover quickly enough to return to work next season,” Till wrote. “Peter was frantically emailing her and calling her insisting on knowing when she could walk again at a rapid pace.”
In that same letter, Till accused Lenkov of embarrassing him, writing: “There was always something about my appearance that would not please him, like when he was in a hospital gown…. [Lenkov] I said that my legs were “horrible” and that we can never show them again. Honestly, I also found some humor in that comment, but you can imagine if that was a more sensitive point that he had hit, and that he often did. Just like the moment you screamed [a director] ‘Oh my God the King! He pulls his shirt in, he looks like a ‘king’ boy … I’ve struggled to keep ‘men’s weight’ on the show because of stress, no time to exercise, and an unpredictable schedule for proper eating. “
A representative from Lenkov called Till’s accusations “100 percent false and untrue,” adding that the EP “has defended him from the beginning and has been nothing but his support.”
On July 7, CBS TV Studios announced that it had fired Lenkov, who also supervised CBS ‘ Magnum PI restart as well as the network remake now concluded Hawaii Five-0. In a statement after his dismissal, Lenkov said: “Now is the time to listen and I am listening. It’s hard to hear that the work environment I was running was not the work environment my colleagues deserved, and so I am deeply sorry. I accept responsibility for what I hear and I promise to do the work that is required to improve and be better. “
