Warning: This article contains spoilers about Wednesday’s season 2 finale ofFor Life.
Aaron Wallace (Nicholas Pinnock) put another win on the board in theFor Lifeseason 2 finale.
So justice was served to an extent.
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ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: This finale wraps up this three-episode arc Aaron has been on with this police brutality case.
Did you do anything specific to prepare for this storyline?
There’s no preparing for that.
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We had to just try and in the moment be ready for whatever.
It’s a very, very difficult thing to prepare for.
Was it hard for you to separate your perspective from Aaron’s?
This was very difficult to separate myself from.
So, I could identify with everything that was going on.
But unarmed Black men get shot regularly enough for it to affect us.
Unarmed Black men get killed, let alone shot, far too often for it not to affect us.
It affected the globe last year, and it’s still affecting people.
Given how hard this season was, how did it feel when you arrived at the finale?
We’ve all done that.
Aaron doesn’t belong to me anymore.
We filmed that, I think, on the last day of filming.
And it was so poignant because it was like [the] closing statement for the season.
Those things you kind of remember.
In real life,cops are rarely charged or convicted in cases like this.
How did you feel about how the show wrapped up this case?
I wholeheartedly support the decision that the writers made.
Because there are so many different ways it could go.
Television is not real life.
Absolutely, we could’ve done that!
But the writers knew what they were doing.
As a television show, we are not going to affect change.
What we can do is that we can influence whatever that change may be.
So, if we can help to influence that way of thinking, fantastic!
We’re not out to change anything.
We are an entertainment show.
If along the way, we can educate and influence, brilliant.
That’s not a question I’m prepared to answer right now.
I know we would all like there to be a season 3.
No one knows if there’s going to be a season 3 yet.
There are plans for a season 3.
Story has been developed.
Story has been talked about.
So, we’ll see what comes to fruition throughout all of that.
This interview has been lightly edited for clarity and length.
