It was announced a few days ago that Emilio Estevez, who played Coach Gordon Bombay in the Mighty Ducks movies and also in the recent Disney+ TV series The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers, will not be returning for season 2.
Now, we’ve learned why: He started struggling with covid during the early part of filming. No one believed that he could possibly have come down with it, because the pandemic was in its very, very early stages, and when he did, and he returned to work in August of 2020, the producers tried to assuage his fears with what little they (and we) knew about the disease. “You’ll have natural immunity!” “You’ll be the safest one on the set!” And all the while, he was experiencing long-haul syndrome.
But he said he ultimately parted the show because of creative differences.