If Drake got his way, Jimmy Brooks would’ve had a very different ending on Degrassi. According to a writer on the teen drama, the rapper, whose full name is Aubrey Drake Graham, threatened to quit the series if his character remained in a wheelchair after season 5.“There was a letter from a law firm in Toronto, and it was from Aubrey.
It was an odd letter that said, ‘Aubrey Graham will not return to Degrassi season six as Jimmy Brooks unless his injury is healed, and he’s out of the wheelchair.’ I said, ‘Get him down here,’” James Hurst told the AV Club in a cast roundtable published on Thursday, October 14, in honor of Degrassi: The Next Generation’s 20th anniversary. “He came in and was like, ‘What letter?
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