{"id":630247,"date":"2024-08-09T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-08T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/umbrella-academy-series-finale-ending-explained-possible-spinoffs\/"},"modified":"2024-08-09T02:00:00","modified_gmt":"2024-08-08T23:00:00","slug":"umbrella-academy-series-finale-ending-explained-possible-spinoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/umbrella-academy-series-finale-ending-explained-possible-spinoffs\/","title":{"rendered":"#&#8217;Umbrella Academy&#8217; Series Finale: Ending Explained, Possible Spinoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    <strong>[This story contains spoilers from the fourth and final season of <em>The Umbrella Academy<\/em>.]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    On Thursday, <em>The Umbrella Academy<\/em> revealed its final timeline to audiences.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    One in which the Hargreeve siblings finally, actually, save the day. For those who have been with the show the last five years \u2014 and the various crew and creative team members who have been with it for nearly twice as long \u2014 it\u2019s a bittersweet ending for one of TV\u2019s favorite dysfunctional (and lovable) families.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    As one of Netflix\u2019s most popular genre <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">series<\/a>, Steve Blackman\u2019s adaptation of Gerard Way and Gabriel B\u00e1\u2019s graphic novel managed to carve out a distinctive corner within the superhero space. That\u2019s due, in part, to its colorful cast of \u201coddball\u201d characters, as Blackman described them at this week\u2019s premiere, including leads Elliot Page (Viktor), Justin Min (Ben), Tom Hopper (Luther), Emmy Raver-Lampman (Allison), Robert Sheehan (Klaus), David Casta\u00f1eda (Diego), Aidan Gallagher (Number Five), Ritu Arya (Lila Pitts), and Colm Feore (Sir Reginald).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    Part of that success is also due to four seasons of grand world-building, all supported by the show\u2019s sharp writers, directors and production teams who have elevated its comedy and action, sets, costumes, music, vfx, cinematography and more. That refreshing spin on the genre garnered the show its rabid following, an audience that Blackman hopes will feel satisfied by the series\u2019 final six episodes and ultimately, the show\u2019s legacy.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    Ahead of the final season\u2019s premiere, <em>The Hollywood Reporter<\/em> spoke to Blackman about the meaning behind that ending, the final days on set and growing alongside his cast and crew for more than half a decade. In the chat below, he also addresses the toxic workplace allegations made by former writers, potential spinoffs, what he\u2019s most proud of about <em>The Umbrella Academy<\/em>\u2019s run, and where he thinks there were missed storytelling opportunities. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    ***<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    <strong>Did you discuss with the comics creators, Gerard Way and Gabriel B\u00e1, how you planned to end the series and did they have any questions or conditions?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    They were so lovely, Gerard and Gabriel, from the very beginning. Every year I\u2019ve talked to them, we\u2019ve discussed things. Very early on, Gerard was very gracious and said, \u201cLook, the TV show and the graphic novel are going to be different.\u201d They\u2019re going to continue with the graphic novel long after us. But every year I\u2019ve run things by them, they\u2019ve told me things that they\u2019re going to do later on. So it\u2019s always been wonderfully collaborative. They have such a generosity of spirit. And yes, I ran everything by them in the end, and they just thought it was a great ending for the TV show. They may go somewhere else, but they\u2019ve been lovely from start to finish. I couldn\u2019t get luckier with two great creative people.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    <strong>This season only featured six episodes, a departure from the 10-episode arcs of the past. How did that impact how you told the story?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    The decision was made at a certain point that Netflix wanted six episodes. That was fine with me. I could have been h<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>y with eight, but it really worked out well. Some of the things we wanted to do, I think, got jettisoned along the way. I wanted to tell a little bit more story with Viktor and Hargreeves. I wanted to do a little bit more with [Luther] and what happened to Sloane. But at the end of the day, when you\u2019re forced to do a certain amount, it forces you to say, what\u2019s the most important? What are the things that really matter in the storytelling? So sometimes when you don\u2019t get the luxury of 10, you really get to titrate it down to the things that are really important \u2014 not just to us as writers, producers, but to the fans. I hope we did justice to that for the fans.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    <strong>Each season you\u2019ve managed to bring in a familiar face as a recurring or guest character. This time it was David Cross, Megan a and Nick Offerman. How did those castings come together?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    It was an amazing bit of luck. I will say that I had read that Megan and Nick liked working together as husband and wife, and I thought, \u201cI\u2019ll take a chance.\u201d But I didn\u2019t think I had any hope of getting them. So I reached out, we did a Zoom together, and it turns out that they\u2019re superfans of the show. They knew every episode, every character. They were so excited to meet the cast. I\u2019m like, this just might work. They said, \u201cWe want to do this. We want to work together as husband and wife. We want to meet the cast.\u201d One of the best days was when they showed up on set. Our cast ran over, they ran to the cast. They were all so excited to see each other. David came along, just because I wanted to work with David. He wasn\u2019t familiar with the show, but has become a superfan of the show. Having three comic geniuses together, the crew and I laughed so much because they did so many things unscripted. They would just riff and sometimes it was just hard to keep the camera steady with all of us just laughing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    <strong>You do a lot of callbacks to previous seasons with the characters, items and powers. What were things you wanted to put in season four that felt maybe like a mirror to where this story started?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    I\u2019m not sure if I thought of it that way. I think what I wanted to do is moreso tie up a lot of the loose ends. I felt like we\u2019ve had such great fans over the years and they\u2019re so loyal, I wanted to make sure I answered some of the big questions. Some of them I wanted to leave unanswered, to subjectively let you decide on your own what happens and what this is. But the Jennifer [Victoria Sawal] incident was important to close that loop, and a few other things. So I was really looking at it that way: What things do I want to answer that the fans <em>deserve<\/em> to know? If I was a fan, what would I hate to leave unanswered?\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-content-image \/\/  \">\n<figure class=\"o-figure   size-large alignnone lrv-u-max-width-100p\" style=\"width:3000px\">\n<div class=\"c-lazy-image  \">\n<div class=\"lrv-a-crop-16x9\" style=\"padding-bottom:calc((1252\/3000)*100%);\">\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"c-lazy-image__img lrv-u-background-color-grey-lightest lrv-u-width-100p lrv-u-display-block lrv-u-height-auto\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/The_Umbrella_Academy_n_S4_E5_00_51_40_14RC.jpg?w=3000\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"\" data-lazy-sizes=\"\" height=\"1252\" width=\"3000\" decoding=\"async\"\/><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div><figcaption class=\"c-figcaption  lrv-u-padding-tb-025\">\n<p>                    <span class=\"a-font-secondary-s lrv-u-margin-r-025\">Victoria Sawal as Jennifer\/Rosie with Justin H. Min as Ben Hargreeves in <em>The Umbrella Academy.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>                                    <cite class=\"a-font-accent-uppercase-xs lrv-u-color-grey-dark\">Netflix<\/cite><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    <strong>The soundtrack has been a defining element of this show from the beginning, with each season feeling like there\u2019s at least one song that really defines it. For season four, what was the song you were most excited to have?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    I\u2019ve been trying to get \u201cGypsies, Tramps and Thieves\u201d by Cher for years and she has said no to me many, many times. I\u2019m just a big fan. I think she\u2019s just phenomenal. Culturally, she\u2019s everywhere in the zeitgeist for four decades now, and this time she said yes. I was like, \u201cAre you sure we could have the song?\u201d She\u2019s like, \u201cYes, go for it.\u201d So it was so exciting to get that song, and it worked really well in the moment with Jean and Gene [Offerman and Mullally].<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    <strong>Was there any song you had wished you had gotten but didn\u2019t?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    There were quite a few. There were some songs \u2014 I don\u2019t want to give specifics \u2014 from the seventies. We thought for sure these artists would say yes. They said, \u201cNo, we don\u2019t allow use of the songs.\u201d There were a few things by other famous people and they said no, too. I didn\u2019t realize until I got much more into it that it is a thing. A lot of people are very specific about where they want their songs used or not used. I was very respectful of that. But even Adele, getting her to do \u201cHello\u201d in season three, the Swedish version, was a hard get. It was only when I explained to her that this young woman from Sweden who\u2019s trying to get a career who sang it that she changed her mind and said we can use it. They don\u2019t say no automatically, so you have to work for it sometimes. We got lucky with a few songs this year.<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-content-image \/\/  \">\n<figure class=\"o-figure   size-large alignnone lrv-u-max-width-100p\" style=\"width:3000px\">\n<div class=\"c-lazy-image  \">\n<div class=\"lrv-a-crop-16x9\" style=\"padding-bottom:calc((2000\/3000)*100%);\">\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"c-lazy-image__img lrv-u-background-color-grey-lightest lrv-u-width-100p lrv-u-display-block lrv-u-height-auto\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/TUA_401_Unit_05615RC.jpg?w=3000\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"\" data-lazy-sizes=\"\" height=\"2000\" width=\"3000\" decoding=\"async\"\/><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div><figcaption class=\"c-figcaption  lrv-u-padding-tb-025\">\n<p>                    <span class=\"a-font-secondary-s lrv-u-margin-r-025\">Nick Offerman as Dr. Gene Thibedeau with Megan Mullally as Dr. Jean Thibedeau.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                                    <cite class=\"a-font-accent-uppercase-xs lrv-u-color-grey-dark\">Christos Kalohoridis\/Netflix<\/cite><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    <strong>Each season you\u2019ve grappled with time <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">travel<\/a>, and this time around, you add the underground train system to the bit. Was there a subway system that inspired it?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    Yes, the Tokyo subway system was very confusing to me when I looked at it, and I thought, \u201clet\u2019s take that to the extreme.\u201d Ultimately, Five [Aidan Gallagher] finds the cipher in episode five, which explains how that works, but without the cipher, it\u2019s just impossible \u2014 although Lila [Ritu Arya] thinks she can figure it out. But it\u2019s taken to the absurd of what a subway system could be like. If you have unlimited timelines, I suppose that\u2019s what the subway system looks like, right?<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    <strong>At the start of top of the season, after the world has been reset again, audiences see the Hargreeves as regular people without powers. Aspects of their day jobs and personal lives are all sort of reminiscent of their past powers or things they\u2019ve done in other timelines. How did you decide who they would be and what they would do?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    It was a lot of fun. I sat down with the writers and we joked about where would they be. We knew Luther [Tom Hopper] would not be able to have a stable job, because he\u2019s a bit of a manchild. We always thought that Viktor [Elliot Page] would be the one who would probably be most OK with living an \u201cordinary life,\u201d despite unresolved issues with dad. Then with Diego [David Casta\u00f1eda] and Lila, it made sense that they were going to try being a domesticated thing. How would that work for them? Children is a complication, so it just fell into place quite easily and we all agreed on those things as writers, and they all played out really well. I have no regrets about what each of them ended up doing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    <strong>When Ben has the family drink Marigold, some of those powers come back a little differently. It feels like this very subtle illustration of their personal evolutions through reimagined powers. How did you approach conceiving their returned abilities?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    I gave us a lot of leeway on that. We wanted just for the fans to show some really interesting extensions of power so it wouldn\u2019t feel too derivative. The logic was they never took Marigold that fast. That shot of Marigold was like an overdose of Marigold, so things were not going to happen the way they expected. I wanted to have fun with the storytelling, so I think it evolved from the storytelling what their powers would be.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    <strong>You spent three seasons with the Hargreeves successfully escaping the world\u2019s end. This time they don\u2019t. They stay, fight and die together. Can you talk about when you knew that was going to be the ending and why you wanted the series to finish on that mutual sacrifice?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    I knew very early on, almost in season one, how I wanted to end the show \u2014 and I didn\u2019t see it as killing them. I thought there was an interesting idea of ceasing to exist, to never have been known. What is a superhero if no one knows you exist? That was the philosophical question. Can you be a superhero if no one ever knew you were a superhero? What does it mean to them? And I also thought it was an incredible sacrifice. I hate to say it, but maybe it\u2019s worse than being dead. If you never existed, what does that mean? Does anything in your life have any meaning? It\u2019s not that you lived and died \u2014 you never lived. I thought it was a very powerful concept to play with non-existence as opposed to just dying. So in my mind, they never existed. They didn\u2019t die. They just ceased to exist. They never were. And, what does that mean?<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    <strong>You allow them to save their families. Why did you want those characters to live?\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    It didn\u2019t seem right for them to bring their families down that road with them. I felt the families had to survive, because they were good parents and they all loved their kids; those aunts and uncles and moms and dads and everything else. I didn\u2019t want them to die. Then we had this device of the subway, which allowed them within the logic of the show to exist. Now, I don\u2019t give away whether or not in that very final scene they remember the families that they were. I just know that they\u2019re alive, and the fans can decide whether or not they remembered everything from the past. Are they the only people remembering these people ever existing or not?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    <strong>That penultimate sequence is the clearest example of them as a fractured family finally coming together. What did you want audiences to take away from them choosing each other despite everything else?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    I think if you juxtapose from season one where they\u2019re so immature with each other, I don\u2019t think they quite love each other in season one when they regroup after the trauma of their father\u2019s death. I think they truly love each other at this point. They really are a family. They\u2019re family and now love each other, and want to be together in this final moment. They don\u2019t want to be going off [alone]. This is how they want to be. The love is real, the camaraderie, the loyalty is real. I think that\u2019s the journey for them. By the end, they truly are a family.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    <strong>Speaking of, Reginald (Colm Feore) has a very complicated relationship with his children across timelines. Some of that is resolved this season. By the end, how much did you want people to see Reginald as a villain versus someone simply growing alongside his children?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    Not to complicate it, but this is the Hargreeves of the Sparrow Academy timeline, so it\u2019s not the Hargreeves that raised them. Similar, but not the dad who made the mistakes, though he probably would have. I don\u2019t see him as a villain in the end. I see him as making choices that he did \u2014 some hubris, but some out of love. He wanted to be back with his wife again and the consequences of that he wasn\u2019t thinking through. I like that it took his wife Abigail to say, \u201cWhat you\u2019re doing is wrong and someone had to stop you, and I was the one who did it.\u201d But I never saw Hargreeves necessarily as the villain, per se. I think he\u2019s a deeply dysfunctional person who\u2019s trying to make it through the day like everyone else.<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-content-image \/\/  \">\n<figure class=\"o-figure   size-large alignnone lrv-u-max-width-100p\" style=\"width:3000px\">\n<div class=\"c-lazy-image  \">\n<div class=\"lrv-a-crop-16x9\" style=\"padding-bottom:calc((2000\/3000)*100%);\">\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"c-lazy-image__img lrv-u-background-color-grey-lightest lrv-u-width-100p lrv-u-display-block lrv-u-height-auto\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/TUA_404_Unit_02184RC.jpg?w=3000\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"\" data-lazy-sizes=\"\" height=\"2000\" width=\"3000\" decoding=\"async\"\/><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div><figcaption class=\"c-figcaption  lrv-u-padding-tb-025\">\n<p>                    <span class=\"a-font-secondary-s lrv-u-margin-r-025\">Colm Feore as Reginald Hargreeves.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                                    <cite class=\"a-font-accent-uppercase-xs lrv-u-color-grey-dark\">Christos Kalohoridis\/Netflix<\/cite><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    <strong>While the family ends in an actual place of love, their romantic relationships \u2014 this season\u2019s love triangle with Five, Lila and Diego, Viktor\u2019s dating, Ben and Jennifer \u2014 aren\u2019t as clean. That also applies to relationships in seasons past: Viktor and Sissy, Allison and Ray, Allison and Luther, Luther and Sloane, Klaus and David, Reginald and his wife. Did you mean for all the romantic relationships to end in a sort of tragedy or unresolved?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    I think it changed throughout the seasons depending on what the storylines were doing. I wanted it to always feel organic, as much as it could be. [With Allison, played by Emmy Raver-Lampman, and Luther], yes, they\u2019re not biological siblings, but they\u2019re siblings. So there\u2019s only so far we could go with certain things. But I wanted to do more with it. I would\u2019ve liked to have seen some more long-term ongoing relationships, but by virtue of jumping through time and all the complications, we didn\u2019t get to see it. One of the relationships we never got to see play out was Luther and Sloane [Genesis Rodriguez]. That would\u2019ve been a lovely one. He finally found love and we rip it away from him. I love Viktor\u2019s relationships. I thought season two was a lovely relationship, but again, that person didn\u2019t exist anymore in the future.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    That was one of the harder truths about being a time traveling superhero. You don\u2019t get everything you want. But I love what [Viktor and Sissy, played by Marin Ireland] found with each other, and we talked about whether Sissy could come into the timeline and be in the future. It just didn\u2019t work for the actor\u2019s schedule. I think what we did with Five and Lila was really interesting. They are very similar \u2014 I think the most similar siblings. I think they made the most sense to be together. But again, seven years lost in time together, they grew close, and what would that have meant? If they didn\u2019t end the way they ended, would she have gone back to Diego, stayed with Five? The fans can figure that out.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    So we did romances, but in the sort of way the show would do them. We weren\u2019t that show that would take them too far. We always wanted to see how people\u2019s relationships would evolve with each other.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    <strong>The final sequence is a timeline where the Hargreeves don\u2019t exist but all these characters from past seasons do, and they appear to have different lives. How did you decide who was going to appear in that \u2014 and did you try to get Mary J. Blige?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    I did. <em>(Laughs<\/em>) I tried to get everybody and the only people I couldn\u2019t get were Mary J., because I think she was in concert somewhere, and I couldn\u2019t get John Magaro who played our bad guy from season one. But everyone else is there. Some of them are obvious if you look carefully, some of them are more hidden than the others. There\u2019s some people hidden in the bushes. But we got everyone we wanted to get. Even Kate Walsh, who I think was shooting in Australia and flew in for that. It was nice. It was such a beautiful day. It was our first sunny day in a while. We were all just hugging it out. It was such fun to see all of them together in one place from all the seasons.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    <strong>You\u2019ve previously mentioned having interest in doing spinoffs. Are you still interested and, what are some of the stories you\u2019re considering?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    It is really up to Netflix at the end of the day \u2014 and we\u2019ve talked about it and it\u2019s a lot of variables in play \u2014 but I think there\u2019s a great story in young Hazel [Cameron Britton] and Cha-Cha [Blige] down the road. There\u2019s obviously the Commission. I think there\u2019s wonderful stories also with some other secondary characters. Then what\u2019s wonderful about our world is we could crossover with our main characters anytime we want to because in a wonderful time-traveling world, you can end up with anyone anytime you want. There are ideas, there\u2019s things I\u2019ve talked about, and if Netflix decides down the road, I\u2019d love to do it. But ultimately Netflix will make that decision. I hope this isn\u2019t the end of<em> Umbrella Academy<\/em>. I hope there\u2019s another iteration somewhere down the road.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    <strong>The last table reads and days on set are often described as emotional. What were those like on season four?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    We didn\u2019t do a last table read. We didn\u2019t have time. The first two episodes, I believe, we did table reads, which was great. We didn\u2019t have time to do any other ones, but the last day of filming was very emotional, because the last scene you saw when they\u2019re all together in the very end, that was the last scene we shot, and then we blew up The Academy. We literally blew it up. The actors were exhausted, they were ready to go off on a holiday, but then I reminded them, \u201cThis is the last time you guys will ever be together as a family. This is our last, both on the show and together.\u201d Then I think it hit them all like bricks in the head, and I think the emotion you\u2019re seeing on screen is a lot about how they felt in that moment. It was a long day of 13 hours staying in that circle. But they were so kind to each other, giving with each scene \u2014 even when they weren\u2019t on camera, even when it wasn\u2019t their closeup \u2014 full emotion. They gave to each other full-heartedly. Then at the end of the night, I think as everyone was going to the cars, they told me afterwards, it hit them that this is it and there was a lot of sadness. They\u2019ve gotten to see the show and I think it\u2019s a very emotional ending for all of them as well.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    <strong>Most of these actors were in different places in their lives, personally and professionally, when they started on this show. One literally grew up on your set, one transitioned, some became parents, and everyone had creative and career growth. Can you talk about that initial decision to cast them and what it has been like to grow with them over the last four years?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    I feel very fortunate for all of them. Elliot Page\u2019s journey has been a remarkable journey to witness \u2014 to be a very small part of that, to see his life and how happy he is and his growth. But also, like you said, Aidan grew up in the show. He was a little boy when I met him. He auditioned at 12, he\u2019s 20 now, playing in a rock band. Tom Hopper had children. Emmy had a child. Everyone has changed. We spent a lot of years together. Like Tom always said, \u201cI spent my thirties on this show,\u201d and they got to see changes in my life. So I feel like it was a wonderful thing that we got to spend this much time together and I feel very lucky that we got to spend four seasons, which is a lot of time for a lot of shows these days. Not a lot of shows get to a fourth season, and we did. So it ended exactly where I think it had to end in terms of how long we were together. I think if we pushed a fifth season, it might\u2019ve been too long for all of us. It was just the right time.<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-content-image \/\/  \">\n<figure class=\"o-figure   size-large alignnone lrv-u-max-width-100p\" style=\"width:3000px\">\n<div class=\"c-lazy-image  \">\n<div class=\"lrv-a-crop-16x9\" style=\"padding-bottom:calc((2000\/3000)*100%);\">\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"c-lazy-image__img lrv-u-background-color-grey-lightest lrv-u-width-100p lrv-u-display-block lrv-u-height-auto\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/TUA_403_Unit_00124RC.jpg?w=3000\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"\" data-lazy-sizes=\"\" height=\"2000\" width=\"3000\" decoding=\"async\"\/><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div><figcaption class=\"c-figcaption  lrv-u-padding-tb-025\">\n<p>                    <span class=\"a-font-secondary-s lrv-u-margin-r-025\">(L to R) Emmy Raver-Lampman as Allison Hargreeves, Elliot Page as Viktor Hargreeves, Aidan Gallagher as Number Five, Robert Sheehan as Klaus Hargreeves, David Castan\u0303eda as Diego Hargreeves, Tom Hopper as Luther Hargreeves, Justin H. Min as Ben Hargreeves and Ritu Arya as Lila Pitts in <em>The Umbrella Academy. <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>                                    <cite class=\"a-font-accent-uppercase-xs lrv-u-color-grey-dark\">Christos Kalohoridis\/Netflix<\/cite><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    <strong>When you initially cast this group of talent, you diverged from the comics in terms of many of their identities, from race to sexuality to gender. It became a blueprint of sorts for other shows about inclusive family casting in genre. Beyond casting for who was best for the role, can you talk about how you feel that diversity helped make this adaptation its own?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    I think I always wanted to make it more diverse than the graphic novel, and to be honest, I think Gerard, who\u2019s told me this, wishes in retrospect that he had written it a bit more diverse. At the time he wrote it, it was quite a long time ago, and I think he was the first to say to me, \u201cPlease cast this more diverse. Don\u2019t make it like I did.\u201d So from the get-go, we were going to do a much more diverse cast, and it just seemed right from the beginning. I wanted these actors. I wasn\u2019t looking for anything for one role, I just wanted to get the best actors, and we got great people. From the very beginning, they fit the roles. I don\u2019t think with anyone I cast I had any moment of regret saying, \u201cOh, I made the wrong choice there.\u201d The very first person I wanted to cast was obviously Elliot Page, and [he and] Tom Hopper were the two people I already pictured in my head. Then there was Robert. As we went along, I basically got everyone I wanted and I got very lucky with that. We continued with that, with all the guest stars and everyone else we could along the way.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    <strong>Onscreen representation has been a central tenet of the show\u2019s storytelling, but last month <\/strong><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/tv-movies\/tv-movie-features\/umbrella-academy-steve-blackman-abuse-allegations-1235047142\/\"><strong>allegations were published<\/strong><\/a><strong> about production conduct, including that you made inappropriate remarks or used derogatory language about specific groups, something that was ultimately addressed with you through HR. Looking back, what do you want people to know about those statements? Do you have any regrets about making them?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    The statements weren\u2019t accurate. They simply weren\u2019t accurate. They weren\u2019t correct. And I have to be honest with you, I\u2019m very, very proud of my 21 years in this business, my reputation, what I\u2019ve done, and especially through<em> Umbrella Academy<\/em>. So the truth is, I don\u2019t accept those statements because I didn\u2019t say them, and it\u2019s just disappointing. But I\u2019m very proud of the journey for <em>Umbrella Academy.<\/em> I stand by all these people, I\u2019ve worked very hard with these people, and I have great respect for all of them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    <strong>You\u2019ve praised the work of various members of the show\u2019s team online and the press, but the allegations from writers, including a co-showrunner, expressed a disconnect in how their treatment, work and voice on the show had been respected and properly credited. What is your response to people who feel like they weren\u2019t treated equitably in your writers room?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    Everyone has their own perception, but my perception is I did treat everybody equally. I went out of my way to make sure everyone felt heard and respected. A writers room is a tough place and you\u2019re not always going to get your version of the thing through or whatever. Some days you get what you want in the writers room and sometimes you don\u2019t. And it\u2019s hard, writers rooms are tricky places, but I do feel that I respected all the writers and I\u2019m proud of what I did on that show and how I treated everybody.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    <strong>It\u2019s been a nearly decade-long journey with this show. What are you most proud of with <em>The Umbrella Academy <\/em>and what do you hope people walk away with now that it\u2019s done?<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    I think there\u2019s a few things. We love our fans and the fact that the fans have stayed with us for so many years. Those young adults are now new adults, if you think about how much time has [passed], and they\u2019re still watching the show. Then younger people are watching the show. I\u2019m also very proud of the crew, that we had the same people who worked with us year after year because it was so collaborative. I care about those people as my family and I think they feel the same about me. So the fact that not only was the cast a family, but the crew was very much a family for many years, and I\u2019m proud that we all got to stay together for so long, which is rare in this industry.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    And I\u2019m proud of the stories we told. We did some challenging stories. Some of them were harder to do, some of them were easier to do. But I think at the end of the day, I will look back and say the team, myself, the writers, producers, everyone, we did a good job on the show. We stayed as true as we could to Gerard and Gabriel\u2019s work, but we made a show that was different, our own way, a little orbit away from all the other superhero shows, and hopefully it will stand the test of time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    Umbrella Academy <em>is now streaming all episodes on Netflix.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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