In her first correct interview since Walker Independence was cancelled (practically a month in the past), sequence lead Katherine McNamara notes, unsurprisingly, “It’s not the news we wanted to hear.”
McNamara had appeared on a number of podcasts that had been launched after the cancellation information broke, however they’d all been taped prior. But as a visitor on The Wayne Ayers Podcast (the complete episode drops this Wednesday), she was capable of really publish mortem all of it, saying that “one of the showrunners and one of the producers called me” with the information, “and clearly it’s not the decision we wished to get. It’s not the information we wished to listen to.
“But I think the show and the story will always have a special place in all of our hearts,” she continued. “It was such an incredible experience to get to work on a show and tell a story that meant so much to all of us, and with people who… we all meant so much to each other.”
Walker Independence‘s freshman season averaged 946,000 complete viewers and a 0.1 demo score (with Live+7 playback). Out of the 14 dramas that The CW aired this previous TV season, it ranked No. 3 in viewers (trailing solely Walker and on-the-bubble Superman & Lois) and was in a nine-way tie for final within the demo.
In an interview with TVLine, showrunner Seamus Kevin Fahey mentioned there was a Plan B to search out Walker Independence a brand new dwelling if The CW order a Season 2, and EP Jared Padalecki has indicated identical — although there was no phrase on the outcomes of that #SaveWalkerIndependence effort.
“Nothing in this industry lasts forever,” McNamara, whose previous credit embody Arrow and Shadowhunters, observes within the Wayne Ayers Podcasr clip obtained by TVLine, “and the fact that we can walk away from that story knowing that we did everything we could, and we loved our time doing it and the people we did it with…. I think that’s the biggest takeaway.”
McNamara may be seen in Charlie Day’s lately launched directorial debut, Fool’s Paradise, and he or she additionally has a job within the motion thriller Air Force One Down, which wrapped filming in March.
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