You recently finished up on the last season of "Brooklyn Nine-Nine." How did you find out that it was finally coming to an end after eight seasons?
It had been in discussion for a while. Eight seasons is very, very long time for television shows to run now. Most television shows don't get the chance to run that many seasons. We had all been talking about the fact that all good things must come to an end. We didn't know quite when. Dan Gore and Andy Samberg and everyone at NBC decided that was going to be the end, and they were going to end it the way that they really wanted it to end.
I thought that was amazing, brilliant, such a gift to us as a cast, because we got to go out on our own terms. There wasn't a weird cliffhanger like, "Are they going to come back or not?" We all knew going into the last season that it was going to be the last. It made it all the sweeter for us, as a cast, and the crew, too, because everyone savored every moment that we were together.
What do you miss the most from working on that sitcom?
My friends. My beautiful, wonderful, talented, amazing, hilarious, generous friends. I miss seeing them every day. Yeah. I got moved to tears [just now], because I really do love them and miss them.
Oh, I'm so sorry!
Oh, no. It's okay!
You worked on it for almost a decade, so I'm sure you guys are all really close. Eight seasons is almost unheard of in television.
I really deeply love that entire cast. So many of us got to know many of the crew members as well. Our director of photography, Rick Page, was on the show from the very beginning. He was a camera operator. He became director of photography after quite a few seasons. He's such a special person and totally behind the scenes, but such a supporter of the show, such a fan of the show as he was working on it, and such an incredible human. Now, [he] has gone on to DP other things, and his work is amazing.
I miss all my friends, and I'm excited for them for the future. All of them are doing so many different, amazing things, and it's thrilling when you know someone is talented and nice. Oh, it's the best, because then when you watch all of their successes, it makes it all the better.
