All American Shocker: The CW Kills A Beloved Main Character!

All America did the whole lot so fairly final evening.

The long-running CW drama killed off a significant character.

Taye Diggs – who has performed Billy Baker on All American since its premiere in 2018 – was written off the present in an surprising flip of occasions involving a deadly bus crash.

What prompted such a growth?!?

A request from Diggs himself, it seems.

“It has been an honor to work with Taye over the previous 5 seasons and watch him deliver extraordinary life to the function of Billy Baker,” Nkechi Govt Producer Okoro Carroll mentioned in a press release after the Season 5 installment premiered.

“It’s really a present to me and my co-writers to put in writing characters who’re each flawed and heroic.”

Nkechi Govt Producer Okoro Carroll launched a press release to ET on Monday, discussing Diggs’ departure from the present after 5 years.

He added:

“Billy is all of us and it has been a pleasure to observe this character develop as he raises his children and his soccer gamers as one huge household.

“We want Taye all the most effective on this subsequent chapter of his life and he stays a beloved member of the All American household.”

Carroll additionally says, in an attention-grabbing approach, that viewers in all probability “have not seen the final of Billy Baker”.

Throughout an emotional hour, Billy and the South Crenshaw soccer gamers partake in a combo that offers the children an opportunity to point out off their expertise for a school coach.

On the way in which house from the occasion, the bus that Billy, Asher, Jabari and the opposite Crenshaw gamers had been touring on suffered a flat tire inflicting an accident which despatched the bus teetering dangerously over the sting of a ravine.

Shortly thereafter, the episode closes with Billy’s household studying of his dying.

Diggs informed TV Line Monday evening that he was “100” % open to going again via flashbacks, making it clear there weren’t any arduous emotions on both aspect.

“I had a good time,” Diggs additionally informed TV Line about how this name took place.

“That is simply the sensation I get [that I was ready to leave], and I respect the sensation. It was in all probability the center of season 4.

“I do not even bear in mind, to be sincere, as a result of the showrunner and myself had been shut. We saved in contact, so he knew, and we talked.

“And we resolve tips on how to do it, and storylines and whatnot, so it is all above board, and everyone is aware of.”

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