[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for The Rookie Season 7 Episode 12 “April Fools.”]
Like The Rookie‘s Lt. Wade Gray (Richard T. Jones), Shawn Ashmore isn’t any fan of April Fools Day. “Normally, I don’t prefer it,” the clinically confirmed great human being admits to Booked: The Rookie Aftershow. “I believe a good April Fools joke is improbable, however everyone seems to be attempting to do it, so it’s clear and only a bunch of failed jokes.”
Or within the case of The Rookie, a bunch of actual issues. In tonight’s episode, we bought a strong sampling of pranks that work — extra of #Chenford’s so-real “fake” hookups, please! — and ones that create extra work for our heroes, who discovered themselves within the thick of a modern-day Purge because of an ill-advised publish by Libby (Kayla Maisonet), the now-jobless intern who ran the LAPD’s social media.
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“I believe that’s what The Rookie does so properly and I’ve heard Alexi [Hawley, the showrunner,] say it so many occasions, that once they do a site visitors cease, you don’t know if it’s going to be humorous or tragic…you simply don’t know.” He provides that the episode “extrapolates on that concept” the place it’s all enjoyable and video games till looters in light-up masks present up with Molotov cocktails.
“It’s like, okay, we’re coping with this enjoyable concept, the romance and the Chenford of all of it and all these various things, after which life can occur within the precinct, it flips, it turns into this life-or-death state of affairs. I really like that. After I was studying the script, I didn’t see that coming and I assumed that every one the rioting and sort of Purge stuff was carried out so properly. It was actually efficient and scary. And I used to be like, ‘Yeah, this a state of affairs we don’t wish to be in.’” Fortunate for Ashmore, his Assistant D.A. was spared a bulk of the insanity — and the week of evening shoots that it took to create the assault on L.A. “Effectively, I used to be there for one of many evening shoots on the very finish,” he laughs, noting how Wes was busy dealing with a murder-case consumer with an unlucky identify. “I come strolling up and I’m like, ‘Okay, I’m going to wrap up the Ben Dover case once more!’ [But] sure, I used to be comfortable that I wasn’t up for 5 nights in a row until about 4 within the morning!”
Try the complete video above for Ashmore’s takes on why he’s relieved to see Wes and spouse Angela (Alyssa Diaz) dwelling their happy-Evers-after (get it?) after seasons of drama, the place he sees his character’s profession going, and who’s behind all the present’s superb Instagram and TikTok posts.
And no, it’s not that Gen Z nightmare who tweeted out that it was Parking Ticket Amnesty Day.
The Rookie, Tuesdays, 9/8c, ABC