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‘All American’ Boss on How She Brought Back Taye Diggs’ Billy Baker and Hopes for Future Seasons While Awaiting Season 7 Renewal
Nkechi Okoro Carroll tells Variety how and why she brought back Taye Diggs as Billy Baker on "All American."
At the beginning of the Season 6 episode, Olivia (Samantha Logan) struggled to finish her book about Billy, her late father, as Jordan (Michael Evans Behling) found himself at a crossroads about his possible future in the NFL. Additionally, she says, there are “a disproportionate number” of writers and crew members who had lost their fathers early in life, and she wanted to honor anyone “who’s had to say goodbye to their parents a little earlier than they should.” “As we were dealing with ghosts from the past and legacies, and the hold our parents have on us and how much they shape us for good or for bad, it felt right that this storyline should come to a head this way for Layla in the same episode,” Carroll says.
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