{"id":12866,"date":"2026-04-21T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nextlevelnews.co.uk\/blog\/2026\/04\/21\/john-c-mcginley-warns-rooster-fans-everyone-is-expendable-as-the-season-ends\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T13:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T13:00:00","slug":"john-c-mcginley-warns-rooster-fans-everyone-is-expendable-as-the-season-ends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nextlevelnews.co.uk\/blog\/2026\/04\/21\/john-c-mcginley-warns-rooster-fans-everyone-is-expendable-as-the-season-ends\/","title":{"rendered":"John C. McGinley Warns Rooster Fans: &#8220;Everyone Is Expendable&#8221; as the Season Ends"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"article-page\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets-prd.ignimgs.com\/2026\/04\/20\/rhbrtsphbvkgevmqdu-wtvbpulaklxkq2so4al62frc-1776721881503.jpeg\" \/>\n<section data-transform=\"mobile-ad-break\"><\/section>\n<p>Move over Game of Thrones, another HBO show might be ready to axe some of your beloved favorites. A second season of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/tv\/rooster#:~:text=HBO%27s%20Rooster%20Review,106\"><u>Rooster<\/u><\/a>, the breakout comedy starring Steve Carell, Danielle Deadwyler, John C. McGinley, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/steve-carell-and-phil-dunster-really-broke-a-bed-filming-roosters-fight-scene\"><u>Phil Dunster<\/u><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/connie-britton-rooster-friday-night-lights-comparison\"><u>Connie Britton<\/u><\/a>, and more, was recently announced. But a batch of new episodes doesn\u2019t necessarily mean you can expect all of your favorite characters to return, according to McGinley, who portrays Ludlow College president Walter Mann. <\/p>\n\n<p>\u201cAs Season 1 progresses in academia at Ludlow College, everyone is expendable,\u201d McGinley said ahead of Rooster\u2019s Episode 7 premiere. \u201cI can tell you [that] without wrecking things since I don&#8217;t know anything [about Season 2].\u201d<\/p>\n\n<p>McGinley has worked for years with  executive producer Bill Lawrence on Scrubs, another show that  moved on from core characters (see Scrubs Season 9). Getting to work with Lawrence on Rooster was a completely different experience.<\/p>\n<section data-transform=\"image-with-caption\" data-image-url=\"https:\/\/assets-prd.ignimgs.com\/2026\/04\/20\/john-c-mcginley-phil-dunster-lauren-tsai-1776722138519.jpg\" data-image-title=\"undefined\" data-image-class=\"article-image-full-size\" data-image-link=\"https:\/\/assets-prd.ignimgs.com\/2026\/04\/20\/john-c-mcginley-phil-dunster-lauren-tsai-1776722138519.jpg\" data-caption=\"John%20C.%20McGinley%2C%20Phil%20Dunster%2C%20and%20Lauren%20Tsai%20on%20Rooster.%20Photograph%20by%20Katrinia%20Marcinowski%20%2F%20HBO\"><\/section>\n<\/section>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s like riding a bike,\u201d McGinley said of his time playing Dr. Cox on Scrubs. \u201cAt 16 hours a day for the better part of 10 years, those rhythms are very familiar to me. [With Rooster] Bill said, \u2018I&#8217;m going to steal your life.\u2019 I didn&#8217;t really know how to process that. Bill said, \u2018I want this to be an exercise in restraint, and I want to see it as flat as possible.\u2019 That&#8217;s not Cox. That&#8217;s a point of departure just rhythmically. Walt is a desperately, deeply lonely guy. Next to my wife, Billy knows me better than anybody on the planet. I don&#8217;t curate what Bill&#8217;s doing with Walt.\u201d<\/p>\n\n<p>In addition to his relationship with Lawrence, McGinley was eager to join the cast of Rooster for the chance to work with Steve Carell, who plays bestselling author turned college professor Greg. He says that his favorite scene with Carell so far is one that occurs in Episode 7. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I list the transgressions that I&#8217;ve come up with so far, and then Steve fills it in,\u201d McGinley said. \u201cThe syncopation of it is so perfect and the way it&#8217;s shot with the dueling singles \u2014 that&#8217;s a perfect example of [Lawrence&#8217;s] musicality. On the day it felt so rhythmic. And then that cut together was just genius.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<section data-transform=\"ignvideo\" data-slug=\"rooster-exclusive-clip\" data-loop=\"\"><\/section>\n<p>With Rooster being released during the same timeframe as the Scrubs revival, McGinley had the rare opportunity to revisit an iconic character while building a completely new one from scratch. And both are at the center of the Bill Lawrence multiverse. I asked McGinley what he thought would happen if Dr. Cox and President Mann ever encountered each other in Mann\u2019s famous backyard hot house.<\/p>\n\n<p>\u201cI don&#8217;t think Walt would bring Dr. Cox into the hot house. Those are not birds of a feather,\u201d McGinley said. \u201cI don&#8217;t think they would get along. I don&#8217;t think Walt would put up with that kind of nonsense. And Dr. Cox would no sooner waste his time in a hot house than miss an opportunity to have a bourbon. 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