Why Gina Torres Walked Away From Fits After Season 6

The SAG-AFTRA and WGA strikes have supplied a little bit of a wake-up name for individuals who think about making a movie or TV collection as being some type of glamorous expertise, versus what it truly is: a job with lengthy, strenuous hours that go away little room for having a private life and comes with no assure of a livable wage. Clearly, although, for a much bigger identify like Torres, the pay was by no means the problem when it got here to “Fits.” It was the stress of by no means seeing her husband and daughter, as she defined to NYT:
“I feel the general public does not perceive the pains of taking pictures a present for an actor, a lot much less whenever you’re on location and away from house. At one level I approached Aaron [Korsh, the showrunner,] and mentioned: ‘It is not that I do not love the present and love Jessica, who’s my alter ego. However my life is my life, and I have to deal with it.’ And everybody was utterly supportive.”
Persevering with, Torres confirmed Jessica’s open-ended destiny in “Fits” season 6 was by design. “And it was considered one of my pitches to Aaron: ‘You realize these boys are going to screw it up in some unspecified time in the future,'” she added. Positive sufficient, Torres popped in for a handful of season 7 episodes on her strategy to starring in her personal spinoff collection, titled “Pearson,” for a single season in 2019. Sadly, even with the large recognition of “Fits” on Netflix, that is probably the final we’ll see of Jessica, now that the streamer is more prone to canceling popular shows than reviving them prefer it used to. Then once more, by now we must always all know higher than to ever rely Miss Pearson absolutely out of the sport, proper?