The journey for him this season was that he really didn’t think he had anything good in his life to look forward to. TVLINE | Is it safe to assume that Andre is out of the woods? Because if it was going to be Andre we really wanted to give him a good sendoff and really honor that character. That’s why we went so deeply into this journey with him this season. TVLINE: Did you ever really consider killing off Andre?Ībsolutely. So, through the nine episodes when he realized he was living a lie this whole time, his identity was thrown up in the air. He went through a period where his whole identity was wrapped around trying to take down Lucious, based on lies his mother told him. I think the hints about his issues were there. Was that because had you depicted him as potentially suicidal earlier it might’ve telegraphed the coffin reveal? TVLINE | Kingsley seemed to go from mentally stable-ish to suicidal in warp speed. And it just seemed like Kingsley might not provide the most stories. It just came down to who we were excited about telling more stories for, who we thought would be a bigger story engine moving into Season 6. We had different candidates for the coffin as we started and I think we Kingsley when we started breaking the back nine episodes. TVLINE | When did you arrive at the decision to put poor Kingsley in the coffin? With that, the season ends with Lucious on the run, Cookie staying behind to hold the rickety fort down and Jussie Smollett’s MIA Jamal battling the Storm of the Century (off screen).īelow, showrunner Brett Mahoney weighs in on the Kingsley twist, Andre’s prognosis, Cookie and Lucious’ marital status and, yes, that perplexing statement Fox put out last week about Smollett’s Season 6 status. In fact, so desperate is Cookie to eject Lucious from her life once and for all that she falsely confesses to cheating on him with his archenemy Damon Cross. She refuses said invitation, citing his pervasive and uncontrollable toxicity as the reason. He decides to make a run for it, and invites Cookie to join him in his getaway ‘copter.
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