‘All American’ Boss on How She Brought Back Taye Diggs’ Billy Baker and Hopes for Future Seasons While Awaiting Season 7 Renewal
21.05.2024 - 02:13
/ variety.com
Emily Longeretta SPOILER ALERT: This post contains spoilers from “Kids See Ghosts,” the May 20 episode of The CW’s “All American.” Billy Baker lives on… ish. Taye Diggs‘ character, who died in a bus accident midway through Season 5 of the drama, returned to “All American” during the May 20 episode. At the beginning of the Season 6 episode, Olivia (Samantha Logan) struggled to finish her book about Billy, her late father, as Jordan (Michael Evans Behling) found himself at a crossroads about his possible future in the NFL.
Meanwhile, Spencer (Daniel Ezra) realized he had much more going for himself than football when a young high school player asked for his help. Recognizing how much they needed their father — or father figure, in Spencer’s case — Laura (Monet Mazur) decided to give her kids letters that Billy had written for them to open when they graduated college. And she gave Spencer Billy’s journal, the one he wrote in when Spencer first came to live with the Baker family.
Throughout the episode, each of the kids read Billy’s words — written when they were only babies, for Olivia and Jordan — and saw how much his messages affected their lives now. Diggs appeared in multiple scenes, enacting what Billy had written, as Olivia, Jordan and Spencer read his words. The episode ended with Laura talking to her late husband while he sat beside her in bed.
The return of Billy was “always” planned, showrunner Nkechi Okoro Carroll tells Variety. “Before Taye left, I made him promise that if I called, he would come back. And to Taye’s credit, from minute one, he was like, ‘Anytime you call, I am there.
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