<p id=”par-1_39″><a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/tag/actors/”>Actors</a> Stana Katic and <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/nathan-fillion-stana-katic-disagreed-becoming-couple-castle.html/”>Nathan Fillion both disagreed</a> about their characters potentially ending up together in <em>Castle.</em> Still, the show would eventually give some fans what they’d been hoping for by pairing Katic’s Kate Beckett with Fillion’s Rick Castle.</p>
<h2 class=”wp-block-heading” id=”h-kate-beckett-s-relationship-with-rick-castle-changed-the-tone-of-the-show”>Kate Beckett’s relationship with Rick Castle changed the tone of the show</h2>
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<p id=”par-2_35″>The romance between Beckett and Castle had been brewing since the first season of the show. But Katic felt she was able to pinpoint exactly when her character started developing feelings for the mystery writer.</p>
<p id=”par-3_44″>“At the end of Season 2, she thought that he had something for her and she knew that she had something for him, and she thought that maybe he was open to it, and she wanted to explore that,” Katic once told <a href=”https://tvline.com/interviews/stana-katic-castle-season-4-preview-kate-rick-love-253987/”>TV Line</a>.</p>
<p id=”par-4_78″>But Beckett still had a lot of reservations about dating Castle that delayed their pairing. The character still saw Castle as a bit of a player. Fillion once quipped that he would’ve liked to see Rick Castle have a romance storyline with <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/nathan-fillion-named-1-castle-co-star-wanted-romance-storyline-with.html/”>someone other than Beckett</a>. But he felt similarly that Castle and Beckett were always meant to be. Additionally, she felt Beckett didn’t want to ruin the friendship she built with Castle by jumping into a romance.</p>
<p id=”par-5_52″>“Yeah, there’s also that fear for Beckett,” she said. “It took her pretty much all of first season just to look at him as a cohort, as a really great partner, so why sacrifice that unless you’re completely sure that the other person’s going to dedicate themselves to making a relationship work?”</p>
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<p id=”par-6_30″>It would take several seasons before the two characters wound up in a relationship. Katic felt an immediate change in the show after the duo transitioned from partners to lovers.</p>
<p id=”par-7_33″>“I feel like it’s a new series entirely,” she once said according to <a href=”https://www.toledoblade.com/a-e/tv-radio/2012/11/25/With-romance-Castle-feels-like-a-different-series-to-Stana-Katic/stories/20121125066″>The Blade</a>. “The tone is lighter now that the two characters are together. It’s a treat to go to work.”</p>
<p id=”par-8_39″>Incidentally, it was noted that audiences saw Katic wearing less clothes due to some of the show’s steamy scenes. Katic asserted that managing the character’s familiar strength with the more intimate side that Castle brought out required some skill.</p>
<p id=”par-9_54″>“It’s a balancing act to make it sensual and keep it modest enough for network television,” she said. “The other element is I’m protective of the character. She’s the romantic lead, but I don’t want her objectified, especially since our audience is so heavily weighted with females. I definitely want her to be respected.”</p>
<h2 class=”wp-block-heading” id=”h-why-stana-katic-had-her-doubts-about-rick-castle-and-kate-beckett-staying-together”>Why Stana Katic had her doubts about Rick Castle and Kate Beckett staying together</h2>
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<p id=”par-10_46″>Even after Static’s and Fillion’s characters became a couple, there was still some romantic tension for the show to play around with. It remained to be seen if Castle and Beckett would actually stay together as the show progressed, which Katic also had her doubts about.</p>
<p id=”par-11_92″>“The Castle character has always been something of a cad — very funny, very charming, but as soon as the question of more depth comes up, he bounces,” Katic said. “I wonder if that’s going to be enough for the Beckett character. She’s starting to think of him as a future husband, a possible father. She’s complex and loving and twisted and all of the wonderful contradictions I think almost every woman is. I think a woman like that is going to demand a partner and a lover with depth as well.”</p>
<p id=”par-12_56″>Later on, certain events would lead to Beckett and Castle finding trouble holding onto their relationship again. Fillion had been an advocate of delaying his and Katic’s onscreen romance until the end of the show. But even he was a bit perplexed by the decision to split up the characters after the writers brought them together.</p>
<p id=”par-13_48″>“First of all, I asked them if they were high,” Fillion once told <a href=”https://tvline.com/interviews/castle-breakup-nathan-fillion-interview-649372/”>TV Line</a>. “Second, they reassured me that what was going was they wanted to get back to a time when people were rooting for the couple, rooting for them to get together, to do something.”</p>
<p id=”par-14_7″>Eventually, Fillion came around to the idea.</p>
<p id=”par-15_23″>“People had a desire, a wont, for them to fight for something,” he continued. I think [the showrunners] did a really good job.”</p>
<p id=”par-16_34″>However, the end of <em>Castle </em>would give fans the pairing they wanted. But Beckett’s relationship with Castle wouldn’t form quite the way viewers imagined it would, which led to <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/nathan-fillion-agreed-that-the-castle-finale-wasnt-a-good-send-off.html/”>the show’s divisive ending</a>. </p>