As the upcoming final episode of Black-ish will hit screens tomorrow, April 19, Anthony Anderson has opened up about his emotions filming the last episode. He tells Ellen on The Ellen Show, “I lost it.”
Tracee Ellis Ross recently opened up about how she had to give herself “permission to cry.” And not Anderson is feeling the tears as well. However, he didn’t expect it.
“Actually the last day, I think I cried a little bit more than [Ross] did, and I didn’t think it was going to hit me the way that it did,” he said. “Because we had been working up to that moment — we knew what the last day was. I had been prepping myself for it, and in the last scene on the last day is when I lost it, and it was unexpected for me. I didn’t expect to lose it the way that I did, but that just goes to show how much I love what I do [and] love doing it with the people that I did it with for the last eight years.”
Ellen then commented that he should be “proud” to have such a successful groundbreaking show. He responds, “We are, we are — from my partner in crime with this who created the show, Kenya Barris, to our writers to our directors to everyone.”
“When Kenya and I sat down almost ten years ago now, we looked at what was missing from the landscape of television for us — he and I as viewers — and we wanted to make an important show that had an impact,” he said. “We took a page from Norman Lear’s book with The Jeffersons, Good Times, All in the Family, and we wanted to do a show like that — a show that had social commentary, with unapologetic lead characters — and I believe we were successful.”
