I worked on Amanda’s show when she had her show. To see someone you’d seen at 9, running around with a snotty nose, and now to see her like that is like, ‘Wow, man! That’s sad.’ I tried to reach out.

It’s the nature of a show like Revenge…We’ve been made aware of it from the very first season that any of us could go at any time. So we were all under the impression that we are on a ticking clock to a certain point. But the beauty of Revenge is that nobody ever really leaves, so when they say that Ashley is leaving, I don’t think it is quite as cut and dry as that.

I think working under those circumstances, knowing that your character can go at any time, actually keeps you on your toes. I think one of the things about working on television is that you can start to phone in your performance at a certain point. But if any episode may be your last and you know that, it keeps you on your game. So I don’t mind it. I kind of like it. I think all of the actors feel like if our characters dying in some way serves the larger plotline and storyline of the show, so be it. But being friends behind the scenes gives it a bit of a different viewing, it makes it bittersweet when we lose a character on the show. But it’s the nature of the beast, it’s a brutal business.

A look at the relationship between Mike and Sulley during their days at Monsters University — when they weren’t necessarily the best of friends.