Sweet Magnolias' Bill Townsend star Chris Klein 'took one for the team' after huge change in season 4

Netflix play Sweet Magnolias has made a comeback but play 4 proved to beryllium 1 to retrieve pursuing the departure of Bill Townsend.

WARNING: This nonfiction contains spoilers from Sweet Magnolias.

The much-anticipated 4th play of Sweet Magnolias has yet arrived but fans are near wondering wherefore Chris Klein, who played Bill Townsend, exited the show.

The heartwarming Netflix play had been absent for a mates of years, truthful erstwhile quality broke that the Sherryl Woods bid was returning for a 3rd season, subscribers were anxious to dive into the caller episodes.

Bill Townsend, portrayed by Chris Klein, didn't marque things casual during his stint successful Serenity, having betrayed Maddie Townsend (JoAnna Garcia Swisher) and struggled to found a narration with Noreen Fitzgibbons (Jamie Lynn Spears).

Therefore, astatine the decision of the 3rd series, helium decided to determination to Texas for a caller commencement and to beryllium nearer to his parents.

Although it was speculated that Bill would instrumentality for the 4th season, successful the 2nd episode, Practical Dreams, Bill's parent Bonnie Townsend (Judith Ivey) arrived to pass Maddie: "It's Bill. He's dead", revealing that helium had suffered a fatal bosom attack.

Why did Chris Klein permission Sweet Magnolias arsenic Bill Townsend?

Despite leaving successful the 3rd season, it was anticipated that helium would reappear successful the 4th play aft spending clip with his parents successful Texas.

His off-screen departure has led immoderate to speculate that possibly histrion Klein was incapable to enactment successful filming Sweet Magnolias, resulting successful his quality being written out, but this is not the case.

Sheryl Anderson, the showrunner, revealed that the determination to termination disconnected Bill was made to drastically alteration the absorption of the show.

In an interrogation with Glamour, Anderson explained: "We emotion Chris, and Chris loves the show, truthful it was really, truly hard to say, 'Hey, Chris, we privation to instrumentality the amusement successful a antithetic direction, and we request this cataclysmic lawsuit to shingle up everybody.'"

Anderson added that Bill's decease serves arsenic a wake-up telephone for the characters, prompting them to re-evaluate their lives and priorities.

"Because it's his decease that makes each our adults, and particularly our men, question what they're doing with their lives. That taxable of 'tomorrow isn't promised.'

"You get to a definite age, and erstwhile a person of yours, who's your age, dies, it's ever excessively soon, but particularly erstwhile you are that age.

"You realise clip isn't connected our broadside and deliberation 'Am I doing what I privation to do? 'Am I with the idiosyncratic I privation to beryllium with? What different changes bash I request to marque successful my life?'

"We wanted to conscionable benignant of crook the vessel 90 degrees. It was truthful hard to archer him due to the fact that we each emotion him, and helium loves the show.

"But helium understood and took 1 for the squad due to the fact that it allowed america to archer stories that we wouldn't person had had an entrée into otherwise. It was communicative with a batch of sadness."

As of now, determination is nary confirmation connected whether Sweet Magnolias volition beryllium renewed for a 5th season, leaving fans eagerly waiting to find retired what's adjacent for the residents of Serenity.

Sweet Magnolias is disposable to ticker connected Netflix.