, Barbie Ferreira is breaking her silence on her departure.“I don’t think there was a place for her to go,” she said of her character, Kat, on of Armchair Expert with Dax Shepherd. “I think there were places she could have gone.
I just don’t think it would have fit into the show. I don’t know if it was going to do her justice, and I think both parties knew that I really wanted to be able to not be the fat best friend.
I don’t want to play that, and I think they didn’t want that either.” Ferreira added that she and series creator Sam Levinson came to a “mutual decision” to end their working relationship.Ferreira spoke of the “struggle” to find a worthy storyline for Kat in season two amidst that alleged fallout between her and Levinson led to her reduced role.
After Kat’s self-empowerment arc in season one, her limited screen time in the show’s second season largely centered on the character faking a terminal illness to break up with her boyfriend, Ethan (Austin Abrams).
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