Part of the cast of reunited with series creator Jason Katims and executive producer Lawrence Trilling on Friday night at the ATX Festival in Austin.And while excited audience members relished hearing Dax Shephard, Erika Christensen, Joy Bryant, and Monica Potter share memories, Peter Krause, Lauren Graham, Craig T.
Nelson, Bonnie Bedelia, and Mae Whitman were certainly missed.Among the highlights was insight from Katims as to how the 1989 film of the same from Ron Howard and the series Friday Night Lights played a role in Parenthood‘s inception.“I was very much inspired by Friday Night Lights in thinking about what the show could be,” Katims, who executive produced the sports drama, shared. “One thing I was enjoying about Friday Night Lights was the big ensemble cast—many, many people with different points of view.
So I thought, ‘What if I did a show like that focusing on family and extended family?’ That’s how it started.”The cast spent time talking about their shared past, but also where they think their characters would be today.
Like Shephard who suggests his character, Crosby Braverman would’ve opened a gym, and Potter who thinks her Kristina Braverman would be pregnant.Bryant thinks her character Jasmine Trussell, who was married to Crosby, could similarly be in the family way.“I would probably have two more kids.
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