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So of course he’s gonna do this in an extra kind of way. This is a character who liked to live out loud and in an extreme way the entire time. It was like, of course that’s what he doing. And you know, coming out of that really nice emotional scene between Anthony and Tracy to the casket, people just laughed, man. LILLY: We actually got to screen the finale at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture in Washington, D.C. It’s kinda interesting now as we sit here and think, “Oh, we could have done this or that.” If we could have done more, it would’ve been awesome.ĭEADLINE: Let’s talk about that moment with the casket.
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But she got stuck in London for a movie thing and they couldn’t let her out. Rashida Jones was somebody we were trying to get ’cause she played on the show. We would have loved to get her for more, but her priority is graduating. She’s obviously in Grown-ish, but she’s also a full-time student in Harvard and in her senior year right now. LILLY: It really came down to Yara Shahidi’s availability. It’s not like, “Okay, well, we’ve gotta cover this topic.” Let’s give the audience more episodes where they can experience the joy of this family.ĭEADLINE: Daughter Zoey came back, but only for the very last scene. A lot of it is just about a celebration of what we’ve done. They were able to go out on their own terms.
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I remember watching the Cheers finale and they really did go full circle with it, with Sam closing the bar at the end and not letting someone in for a drink versus the pilot where he let somebody in.


LILLY: I mean that’s like the first thing you do. We wanted to celebrate the family as best we could. We didn’t want Tony Soprano to get shot as it goes black or wonder if he got shot or not.
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I didn’t want it to be like sad.ĭEADLINE: Did you go to school on any other series finales for comedies?īARRIS: Of course you think about them. That was completing the circle.īARRIS: I didn’t want it to be saccharine. And if I remember correctly, I believe one of our executive producers, Laura Peterson, who talked about the family moving back to a Black neighborhood. We had early conversations about where the Johnson family would go. LILLY: We started talking about it in Season 7, ’cause we didn’t know when the final season was gonna be. I was actually shooting my movie.ĭEADLINE: Is this the ending that you always wanted?

Everybody was so honored to be able to participate in this moment.ĭEADLINE: Where was it shot, in Los Angeles? It was incredibly moving, especially since over the last two years were we weren’t able to spend a lot of time together. Once we got the idea for the jazz funeral, we wanted our people to be a part of that. We knew we wanted to celebrate what so many of us had done over the last eight years - not just the cast, not just the writers and executive producers, but the people who showed up 5:30 in the morning to make this show. If I could go back, I just would’ve stayed there longer, you know? ‘Cause that’s what we felt where we wanted to be. Cancellations Photo Gallery: The TV Series Ending In 2022 & BeyondĬOURTNEY LILLY: I know! Obviously there have time constraints and this and that, but that was a lot of our crew in that shot.
