'The Girl From Plainville': Elle Fanning and Colton Ryan on the Finale's Emotional Ending (Exclusive)
etonline.comMichelle Carter’s (Elle Fanning) fate sealed after she’s convicted of involuntary manslaughter in the death of boyfriend Conrad Roy (Colton Ryan) while the finale also revisited his last day alive.
While speaking to ET, Fanning, Ryan as well as creators and showrunners Liz Hannah and Patrick Macmanus broke down “Blank Spaces” and why they wanted to end Carter and Roy’s complicated relationship with that powerful fantasy sequence.As Carter faced her final days in court, the series jumped back in time to Roy’s final day alive before dying by suicide.
For everyone else, it’s just a normal day, but for Roy, it’s an opportunity to indulge in the things he loves, from playing video games to spending time with his mom on the beach, where he tries guacamole for the first time. “We knew at the point in time that we wrote the pilot we were pretty certain that the finale was going to have Conrad’s last day,” Macmanus says. “We had spent so much time in seven episodes talking about his last day.
I mean, even in the pilot episode, the moment with Lynn and Co on the beach, they talked about it. And then throughout the course of the series as a whole, we keep talking about it.” “So, we knew we wanted to see it,” he says, adding that the showrunners “hope that we’ve done an honor to him in some way.”For the actor, his main focus in portraying Roy was finally telling his story in a way that went beyond the headlines or mere mention of him as Carter’s boyfriend. “I wanted to, if I could in any small way, help in the process of reminding someone, anyone that people are more than just their ending,” Ryan says, happy with the way the series “addressed the elephant in the room” by not over sensationalizing Roy’s suicide. “I had a really huge.
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