![]() ![]() They have to stay in the All American world for me to continue to tell that story.’ And so it started to narrow down the field for me.” I still have great journeys and plans for their characters as they graduate high school and go on to college and their careers. And for a number of them, I’m not done telling their stories on our show, so I didn’t want to take them off the show yet because they’re still so involved in the storylines. ![]() And we have so many talented female characters on our show. Becaus e All American is sort of male-led, I really wanted it to be a female character. “The question then became: ‘Who’s the best person to use our entry point?’ And the truth of the matter is, I wanted it to be a female. “We have been blessed with such an amazingly talented ensemble cast led by Daniel Ezra, but the show really has become not just about Spencer’s pursuit of his football journey, but about all these teens’ pursuit of whatever their dreams are, on the field or off,” she said. In the project’s development, Carroll explained that it became increasingly clear that Simone was the perfect choice to be the key to the new series. ![]() I am ready and I’m super excited to just continue on the legacy of the show and be able to create another legacy and be a part of this universe that people have grown and love.” It was very jarring, but at the end of the day when blessings come, you just have to be prepared and ready for them. “My character originally was only supposed to be on All American for three episodes…maybe five,” the actress told S&A. It was also an interesting choice to set the spinoff at a fictional HBCU outside of California and to put Maya’s Simone at the helm, especially since Simone wasn’t initially meant to be a long-term character on the show. It was like, ‘OK, what world and storyline could run parallel to what is happening on All American and feel of the same universe without feeling like we’re stepping any of our storylines?'” Well, when you’re ready to talk about those spinoffs and how that universe could work, let me know.’ There’s still so much life in the mothership show and so much stuff I plan on doing with these characters, so I was looking at a way that if I spun off the show, what way should I do it where I wasn’t stepping on anything that I was planning on doing on the mothership show? The goal wasn’t to take stories from the mothership show and ship them out. He was like, ‘OK.’ And I was like, ‘No, I’m actually really serious.’ And he was like, “Oh, OK. We were out to lunch and I said, ‘I’m going to create a universe and we’re going to keep this universe going for 15 years on the air and everything.’ And he looked at me and laughed. “From the moment I took over as showrunner on All American, one of the first things I said to our studio chairperson at the time, Peter Roth. ![]() Carroll says that she always knew that she wanted to expand the All American universe, though she didn’t know exactly how it would be done at the time.Ī post shared by All American: Homecoming pretty much knew from the start,” she noted. While Simone wants to get away from her parents instead of seriously considering it as a college choice, she finds more at Bringston than she anticipated.Īhead of the episode, Shadow and Act sat down with showrunner Nkechi Okoro Carroll and Geffri Maya to talk about the episode bringing All American: Homecoming to life. The pilot will see Simone, Spencer (Daniel Ezra), Jordan (Michael Evans Behling) and Olivia (Samantha Logan) spending a weekend at Bringston University, a Historically Black College. The spinoff will follow a young tennis hopeful from Beverly Hills (Simone Hicks, a recurring character on All American played by Geffri Maya) and an elite baseball player from Chicago (Damon Sims, played by franchise newcomer Peyton Alex Smith) as “they contend with the high stakes of college sports, while also navigating the highs, lows and sexiness of unsupervised early adulthood at a prestigious Historically Black College.” All American: Homecoming‘s backdoor pilot is airing as a part of this season, which is the show’s third. Also set within the world of sports, the spinoff is switching from a high school setting to college. All American, one of The CW‘s biggest hits, is expanding its footprint at the network with a new spinoff. ![]()
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