“It is no secret that she is a recovering addict. So we’re going to really see her grapple with what life post-Billy looks like,” Carroll explains. It’s kind of the last big thing they did together. She spent a lot of time this season in this new phase of her life with her career and Billy was such a huge part of that with the GAU article.
There’s also the grief that Olivia will face over losing her dad and what that means for her sobriety.
“It weighs on Spencer in some unexpected ways, in some ways that are going to feel very familiar to people and then in some other ways where you feel like like, oh, there’s something bigger going on here.” “When you have a chance to talk to someone and you send them to voicemail, and then all of a sudden that person is gone, you never get to call them back and have that conversation, that’s going to weigh on you,” says Carroll. “He was like, ‘It feels like the right time and it feels like the right way to do it.’ It just felt right for both of us.”īilly and Jordan on ‘All American’ Troy Harvey/THE CWįor Spencer, he will carry around the guilt of his last conversation with Billy being argumentative, and the fact that he didn’t answer his call. I pitched it to him like I was pitching an episode, beat by beat, even though it was still easily a year away,” says Carroll. “Even though it was so far in advance, I already knew that whenever it would happen, that this was how I was going to do it. However, she knew it was the only way to have him leave, since Billy would never intentionally leave his family behind. Does this feel like the right time to do it? We both felt like it was,” she recalls, noting that Diggs was “so emotional” at the time. “It became a mutual thing of, we have an opportunity to do something that no one is going to expect. I mean, he’s Taye Diggs,” she continues.” So we were like, let’s always make sure we’re communicating with each other, and when it feels like it’s the right time, if we’re both feeling that way, we’ll have the conversation and figure out a really dope way to have him exit the show.”Īt the end of Season 4, she and Diggs were talking about Billy’s journey and his legacy and it “just came together,” she says. “We were so incredibly lucky to have Taye Diggs be part of this production from day one, so one of the things that we’d always talked about was, we have no idea of how long we would be able to hold on to him.
Since taking over as showrunner in Season 2, Carroll talks to each actor at the end of each season about where they see their character going.
0 kommentar(er)
