![]() ![]() “In this case, we spoke to an oncologist at length many times, and he said something very poignant. Terrence noted that the show had a consultant for Gary’s storyline. A gorgeous and fitting cover of “For Good” played during this montage. After getting the news that his condition was terminal, Gary was able to spend time with his loved ones and be able to say goodbye. In the end, Maggie was the one who was with him as he fell asleep and never woke up again. Gary initially enlisted Rome and Eddie to help him get the drugs he needed for his death. There are just so many stories that come from family members I’ve had who have lost their battles that in being authentic we wanted to make sure we told that story true to ourselves.” Romany Malco and David Giuntoli as Rome and Eddie. The Slossman Cancer Center where Gary receives treatment is named after a family member I had who lost their battle with cancer. ![]() But for people we know who’ve lost a loved one, that’s really why I wanted to tell the story like this. I think because the show is so authentic, it’s very hard to accept this. DJ admitted that he knows that some fans “might be angry with this ending. The show started with Jon taking his own life and followed the aftermath of his death. Gary has become a fan favorite over the course of the show’s run. I was thankful to ABC that they let us do it because it’s not exactly network television fodder.” “If you know that you’re done, shouldn’t you be able to dictate what those final memories look like? How you want loved ones to remember you? It’s one of the few things that you have control over in a situation, so I think there’s beauty in it. “I think the concept of death with dignity is something that makes a ton of sense to me personally,” the actor told HollywoodLife. James fully supported Gary’s decision to end his life on his own terms. As melancholy as it is, it did sort of feel like something that we’d probably do if we were going to pride ourselves in this show being a reflection of a real experience.” “And then after season 4, he was like, ‘What do you think?’ And I was like, ‘Yeah, I think we’ve done it and done a pretty good job of tracking the authentic journey of someone with this terrible disease.’ We know that they’re not always happy endings, and we had already sort of played out a version with Maggie where she does beat it. ![]() “We checked in with each other periodically over the run of the series,” James revealed. Terrence added, “We had a lot of time to live with that emotionally and to see it come to fruition in exactly the right way, but watching the way that it affected the people who were crafting these stories on a daily basis… I think we knew in our guts that it was the right way to go.”įor several seasons, James has had to keep it a secret that he knew how the show would end all along. There had been other ideas that we floated out there, and I even pitched on some, but I think we always came back to this.” Two friends both have diseases and one beat their disease and one didn’t, Rome and Gary. “I always wanted to juxtapose the suicide as the way the series started with the assisted suicide as a way that it ended. “Like any story that we come up with in the room, we bring an idea up, and if someone has something better, the best idea wins,” he said. (ABC)Įnding the series with Gary’s death was something DJ had been thinking about almost since the show started. (Note: the interviews took place prior to the writers’ strike.) James Roday Rodriguez as Gary. HollywoodLife spoke EXCLUSIVELY with James Roday Rodriguez, creator/executive producer DJ Nash, and executive producer Terrence Coli about the final episode and Gary’s death. Gary died with Maggie by his side after saying goodbye to Javi and his friends. As cancer consumed Gary, he decided to take matters into his own hands and have a death with dignity. But the series finale of A Million Little Things exemplified just how beautiful life can be before the end. It happens to all of us, and the grief of losing someone is often so painful. ![]()
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