SPOILER ALERT: Do not read if you have not yet watched “A Boy is a Gun,” the fifth episode of “Grown-ish.” Since its 2018 debut, Freeform’s “Grown-ish” has…
Do not read if you have not yet watched “A Boy is a Gun,” the fifth episode of “Since its 2018 debut, Freeform’s “Grown-ish” has paid special attention to social issues presented through the lens of today’s college students. With the fifth and sixth episode of its fourth season, the Yara Shahidi starrer recreated last summer’sprotests and puts Zoey and her friends at the center of the debate on how to meaningfully support — or critique — the movement.
“I was feeling like I was a bad Black person, like I wasn’t doing anything to help. But I also felt that I couldn’t emotionally handle participating anymore,” he admits. “I thought I was gonna get roasted in the room, honestly, and the conversations that came out of it were [that] everyone was feeling the same fatigue that I was feeling in different ways.”
When he shared that experience with the other writers, a debate opened up about how looting is problematic to the cause at large. The conversation made its way into the script, with Nomi voicing her dismay over the loss of commercial goods, much to Jazz and Zoey’s disapproval. And with these topics being explored in the show’s “Senior Year” season, Allain-Marcus believes the timing feels organic to the characters’ evolution over the years instead of shoehorned into the show.
“It was a balance of trying to make both of those moments pop because you want to be crying for Doug about what’s going on, but then you also want to be like, ‘Oh shit, they’re kissing,'” Rice-Genzuk Henry explained. “I think he did an excellent job. He really just had to dig deep as an actor.”“Usually we don’t stick around and talk about it after, but I remember the cast taking a moment to thank all of us for digging in and writing [this],” Moran recalls.
Like Doug, Moran was wearing headphones, so the interaction was particularly startling. “I was listening to some pop song and was having the most blissful day right before it happened,” he says. “We knew that these were the most special episodes that we were tackling, the most precious subject matter,” she says. “To the credit of Freeform and ABC Studios, and Julie Bean, Lina Wong and Michael Petok, they were nothing but supportive and trusting and got behind me when I was like, ‘I want to burn a police car.'”
Thankfully, Freeform was on board with the team’s creative vision, helping the show step outside of its comfort zone by expanding its physical boundaries. Where “Grown-ish” normally films on sound stages, “Put Your Hands Where My Eyes Could See” filmed largely on location in the streets of LA. Rice-Genzuk Henry also asked the set decoration team to add pink flowers to a tree, after wardrobe found the perfect flowing pink dress to mimicthe young Black woman who peacefully stood against a line of police at a 2016 protest in Baton Rouge.
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