Why I Left ‘Chicago P.D.,’ Exit Revelations

Talking his fact. Jesse Lee Soffer revealed why he left Chicago P.D. six months after he introduced his departure in August 2022 — and teased if he’ll be again.

“I’ve thought so arduous about learn how to reply this query — and there’s no good reply,” Soffer, 38, advised Selection in an interview printed on Wednesday, February 22, about why he left. “Besides I used to be prepared for extra. Finally, the character so effectively, there’s not a lot that may shift or remodel.”

He defined: “I actually wished to develop and increase, and we’ve solely acquired this one journey. If I signed up once more, it will have been for an additional three years. I’d have turned 40 on the present. I assumed, ‘You already know what? It’s time to take a danger.’”

The New York native started enjoying Detective Jay Halstead in 2014 when the NBC drama first premiered. In August 2022, Soffer stunned viewers when he revealed he can be exiting the sequence amid the upcoming tenth season.

“To create this hour drama week after week has been a labor of affection by everybody who touches the present,” the Mob Physician alum stated in a press release to Selection on the time. “I’ll all the time be pleased with my time as Det. Jay Halstead.”

As soon as the information broke of his departure, Soffer shared one other message together with his followers by way of social media. “That is unhappy however true. Simply need all of the followers to know the way grateful I’m,” he tweeted. “You guys are why we do it! It has been an honor. Love you all ❤️.”

The Brady Bunch Film actor signed off as Halstead through the season 10 episode “A Good Man,” which aired in October 2022. “I left all of it on the market for this one,” Soffer wrote by way of Instagram forward of his last bow.

Through the episode, Halstead advised his spouse, Hailey Upton (Tracy Spiridakos), that he took an task in Bolivia to assist take down drug cartels. He defined that his present function within the Intelligence unit made it arduous generally to know who was actually good and evil.

“It’s not without end. It’s eight months, possibly a little bit longer,” Halstead promised. “However I swear to you that we’re going to get by means of this since you’re the love of my life, and if I’m yours, then you definately’ll know that it’s a must to let me go.”

Earlier this month, Soffer teased his return to the Chicago P.D. set because the director for an upcoming March episode of the cop drama. “Again at it. Simply totally different :),” he wrote by way of Instagram on February 4, sharing behind-the-scenes images from his go to.

Soffer’s function as director has many followers questioning whether or not the Two of a Form alum will ever reprise his function as Halstead — particularly after the character began ghosting Upton throughout season 10. The Chicago Med alum, who additionally performed Halstead on the medical spinoff over time, advised Selection on Wednesday that he’s nonetheless “grieving” his 2022 exit.

Scroll down for Soffer’s largest Chicago P.D. revelations about his departure — and his 10 years engaged on the sequence:

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Chicago P.D. airs on NBC Wednesdays at 10 p.m. ET.