It’s going to be, you know, a new way of looking at the world for them, I’m sure, and for his family. That wouldn’t be fair to anybody, not at this juncture, you know? It wouldn’t be fair, and I don’t know how we could come back from that, too… To Jenifer and Lawrence credit, they did such a great job of evolving that relationship from the very beginning where there was that animosity, to really building into a friendship and an understanding.Īnd I think last season, we did a great job of really kind of showing how these two are really kind of not only just peas in the pod for each other, but they really have always been emotional support for each other in a way, and a relationship that we can continue to build on. TVLINE | I’m very invested in Pops and Ruby - please don’t tell me they’re not going to make it this time, because it will break my heart. Like, you know, Tracee Ellis Ross’ character is a doctor, so we’re dealing with her working in this environment, and it’s a story about a family dealing when somebody is an essential worker and on the front line of healthcare during this time. So what we want to do is break down how this specific Black family - with where they’re from, what they do, and that all that other kind of stuff - is dealing with the current world.
That’s something your family could relate to, because it’s generational: the idea about the way people look at these things is not so commonly stratified just by race. Like, you could be a police officer in Kalamazoo, Mich., whose son, all of a sudden, is posting tweets about X, Y, and Z.
But I think in the stories we’re trying to tell, they work from a place of families dealing with these things. We don’t sit there and look at it through a frame of, “What do we need to tell white America?,” you know? We do sit there and say we need to provide context for a broader audience who may not be doing as much of what we’re doing, and we definitely do that.Īnd Anthony, through his voiceover, is always great with that. So we have plenty of places to play and to be able to tell our stories that are reflective of what’s happening in this family and the conflicts that. And look - every generation is, the older ones are more conservative, generally, than the younger ones. There’s activism that organized around hashtags and so on and so forth.
Everybody has different ways of doing it. It’s not a smooth handoff on everything, either. We have a multigenerational family, and that’s something that has been passed on from generation to generation to generation. So, for us, it is we’re going to talk about how a Black family deals with the idea of what protest is, generationally. We’re not an apolitical show in a lot of ways, you know? What it is, honestly, again reflecting what people are talking about. You guys were ahead of the curve.” But these were just the conversations that were going on in the houses of a lot of our writers, and so, for us, it’s continuing to evolve in those conversations. Well, it’s interesting, because it’s literally kind of what you said: We’ve been able to re-air episodes we had, and everybody thinks, like, “Oh, look at that. So talk to me about making black-ish this season in light of everything that has happened in the past six months. But at the same time, just because white people like me are just talking about it more than they were before doesn’t mean it’s anything new. TVLINE | In one way, with the Black Lives Matter movement so much in the national consciousness now, it seems like black-ish would have very rich material to work with. Richard Flood Exits Grey's Anatomy, Says 'Three Years Felt Right for Me' Milo Ventimiglia to Star in ABC Pilot as Con Man in Love With a CIA Agent Ahead of the special, we got on the phone with black-ish boss Courtney Lilly to discuss what’s ahead for the Johnsons in the special and beyond.
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