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Degrassi: Next Grade boss breaks down season 4'due south final moments
Plus: Is a 'Degrassi' reunion in the cards?
With more than than 500 episodes under its chugalug, the Degrassi franchise has said goodbye to many graduating characters over the years, and Degrassi: Next Class season 4 saw the school twelvemonth end for a few more than.
Zig (Ricardo Hoyos), Maya (Olivia Scriven), Tiny (Richard Walters), Winston (Andre Kim), Grace, (Nikki Gould), Jonah (Ehren Kassam) Tristan (Lyle Lettau), Miles (Eric Osborne), Zoe (Ana Golja), and Goldi (Soma Bhatia) all graduated in the season finale — some a little afterward than others.
But for the latest batch of seniors, the prove did something a little different from previous seasons. As Maya's original song, "Terminal Exit to Freedom" played in the last few minutes of the finale, the show offered a glimpse of what became of the recent graduates: Tiny left for Caltech, Grace got the lung transplant she needed so badly while Jonah waited by her side, Miles and Winston went on that European vacation (while Tristan stayed dorsum and worked on his therapy), Zoe and her girlfriend Rasha hung out equally did Winston and Goldi, and Maya and Zig drove off into the dusk together.
EW spoke to executive producer Stephen Stohn about the inspiration for those final moments of the season iv finale — and whether we'd see any fan favorites render.
Amusement WEEKLY: At the end of this season, we see where everyone ends upwards, which nosotros've never really seen in previous seasons. What inspired that?
STEVEN STOHN: That was an editing choice. Information technology was really written that way. How it was written was: Zoe gives her last speech, and nosotros run across everybody at the party. And I don't remember there was much more, other than scroll the credits. Information technology was in the editing room, I forget who it was that said, "Nosotros could reprise." And I was in favor of reprising the "Last Leave" song. And over that, we could put these possible shots. And it just worked like gangbusters. We didn't know if information technology would work.
Did you have ideas for where each character would cease upwardly, or was it an improvised affair?
Well, we all had our own ideas. I've ever been a Zig and Maya fan, so for many years, I wanted them to end up together. And I know it'south a little bit ambiguous, but for me, it's not. They end upward together and equitably then. And with the others, I really liked how Miles and Tristan ended upwards. I know there are a bunch of people who wanted them to exist together, going off into the sunset, and they could end up together. Just they're becoming their ain people. They're existence who they need to be. And nosotros'll see what the time to come can hold.
When yous are coming upwardly with these characters, do you take an idea of where you lot might want them to end up, or is that something that's crafted during the final season?
The characters tend to create themselves as they go on. Information technology's partly the writers seeing what works with the characters and seeing how the actor is portraying them, and what the strengths and the weaknesses are. At the outset, they don't know where the characters are going to end upwardly. As you get to know them, you've got some thoughts as to what you may want, simply sometimes you're actually surprised. But there is a flake of momentum that builds up, where the characters build up.
We see Grace eventually get that lung transplant. Is that something you'd planned when you planned her diagnosis?
We didn't know up until the end how that would transpire. Even in the past, some of the iconic moments we didn't know correct up until the end. For instance, Cam'due south suicide. He was such a dear graphic symbol. We had planned that he would [die by] suicide. But every bit we got closer, we loved the character then much, and Dylan Everett, who played him so well, loved portraying the graphic symbol, and nosotros had some serious discussions. "Well, perhaps he attempts suicide and isn't successful." Then there was a lot of discussion around it. Of class in that instance, in the finish, nosotros decided it was too of import to the story, we accept to follow through on what nosotros said. But there can be a debate correct upwards until the stop.
When it comes to popular ships like Tristan and Miles, and even Zig and Maya, do you feel whatever pressure to accept them finish upward together?
What we're trying to do is figure out authentically what they would do. Then it's not, "Oh, let's have a Hollywood ending." One of my favorite pairings was Eli and Clare. It would have been and then piece of cake with them, to give them a peachy transport-off where they dearest each other and go off to New York together. Only the truth was, they were finally settling into who they were. I think they did stop upward together. But we don't know. They both have to go off and be themselves and explore life for a little bit earlier it'southward certain. To me that's just more authentic and a better way to practise it.
Have you talked to the actors about mayhap doing an in-show reunion where we run across what happened to a lot of those characters, or volition it be something a graphic symbol might just refer to down the line?
It's more than the latter. We do talk almost creating some kind of special or some return moments. But during the grade of the flavour, maybe something will come up upward where we'll get, "Oh, Jake is in town. Maybe nosotros can take him return and run into what'due south happening in his life." I would dearest to do a reunion at some point in the future and just run into where a whole bunch of the characters, some of the electric current ones, but also where some of the ones from before on in The Next Generation have concluded up.
Nosotros had that slight reunion last yr during the 500th episode.
Yeah. That was partially there. [Laughs]. But I retrieve at some point in the future, maybe it'southward a few years down the road, nosotros could practise a actually dainty reunion.
Degrassi: Next Class is currently available to stream on Netflix.
Source: https://ew.com/tv/2017/07/10/degrassi-next-class-stephen-stohn-zig-maya/
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