There’s just so many different factors and that was really important to us to feel like these characters’ lives would still continue. There’s so many new things that they’re exploring - Molly and Kelli (Natasha Rothwell) start a firm together Kelli’s own personal developments in life and probably new marriage Issa’s decision to stay with Lawrence (Jay Ellis), and does that mean that there’s a relationship there with Elijah and, of course, Tiffany (Amanda Seales) being in Denver and having a second child. If we were to continue to Season 6, there are stories to tell with all of these characters still. Look who she chose! And, you know, who knows? I think that they stay together, but one of the things that excited us about these endings for is that they’re not really endings, they’re kind of beginnings. Going back to the pilot, Issa was so worried about spending her entire 20s with the guy she wasn’t going to end up with, and then look where we are!
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Molly (Yvonne Orji) and Issa (Issa Rae) in the “Insecure” series finale. And I think there is a naivete of thinking, “We’re always gonna be friends and we’re always gong to kick it” but that doesn’t always happen and telling Issa and Molly’s last moments before we see that - and the four girls - just really spoke to that. Sometimes the only guarantee that we’ll actually be able to hang out is birthdays and I think there’s a sadness to that, but also just the reality of getting older and into your 30s. I have friends that I’ve had since high school, and we’ve gone from kicking it every Friday guaranteed, to growing up and dealing with families, life, loss and all of those things. Birthdays are how we started the show, so to be able to culminate that way was really like poetic justice for me.Īnd then thinking about my own life, and wanting to tell the story of Issa and Molly trying to maintain the friendship that they have dutifully kept over time with the circumstances of life, just modeled it after my own life and friendships. And, for me, it was really exciting to tell a story through time, with birthdays as the literal device of getting older and growing. One - this season has been the story of growth for these characters.
Tell me how you came up with the birthday plot device, where we check in with everybody on each main character’s birthday. Plus, she dishes on the fate of Issa’s “Mirror Bitch” and that “Bossy” needle drop. Here Rae dives deep with Variety into the finale’s biggest moments, from the conclusion of the Issa/Lawrence/Nathan love triangle to Issa and Molly’s tearful talk after the show’s big wedding. But yes, wanted to pass the time a little bit.”
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“We really tried to give a full hour and then when you give these cuts to the HBO team, they’re like “OK, let’s trim this, maybe don’t need this …” and so that’s how we ended up with 41 minutes,” Rae explains. The half-hour comedy’s slightly extended running time was a gift to the fans who have been petitioning for hourlong episodes since the series debut in October 2016. “It was so important for Prentice and I to look at places that were important to shaping Issa, and sending off the locations that were so central to her own journey,” Rae shares. driving past The Dunes, her old apartment complex, then by a Lawrence look-alike outside Rite Aid, and spotting Frieda (Lisa Joyce) and Sara (Sujata Day) outside of We Got Y’all - represented the character’s growth over time. Rae re-wrote the script, changing pretty much everything except for the final montage. and it just wasn’t the story that we wanted to tell, the story that we’ve been telling this season and with the series.” “It was fun, but it just wasn’t the proper send-off to L.A. “It just wasn’t right,” Rae says of retooling the story. But, just two weeks before filming began, Rae decided to change things up.
The first version of the finale was set five years in the future with Rae’s Issa Dee character and Molly traveling in Morocco. Although she and “Insecure” showrunner/executive producer Prentice Penny always knew the show would last five seasons, bringing its storylines to a satisfying conclusion proved challenging. Rae reveals that key elements of the finale were up in the air until very late in the game, from the final decision on the show’s enduring love triangle to the brass tacks of the script itself. “Yvonne laughs at it now and calls the audience very petty for accepting Molly almost immediately, but I’m really happy that people see it for their friendship,” Rae adds. She was also surprised by the quick redemption for Molly.
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