‘Grown-ish’: Yara Shahidi and Marcus Scribner Talk Closing The Chapter On The Johnson Family & Sticking The Landing With Series Finale
deadline.comYara Shahidi and Marcus Scribner first joined the Johnson family a decade ago. The then-child actors landed starring roles in ABC’s black-ish as Zoey and Andre Johnson, the eldest two of five precocious siblings with big ambitions.
Little did they know, 10 years later, they’d finally be bidding farewell to these characters — on an entirely different show.
Freeform‘s grown-ish wrapped its sixth and final season on Wednesday, closing that chapter for Shahidi and Scribner. “It feels crazy.
It feels odd. It’s been 10 years of doing the same thing for so long and growing with the character,” Scribner told Deadline. “You create a family and you create a lot of friends and have to say goodbye to all that, but I’m thankful that we get to send off the show with an actual little bowtie to end it all off.” The opportunity to end a show with a proper finale is considered a luxury nowadays, when plenty of series are unceremoniously canceled during hiatus or, worse, mid-season.
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