Yara Shahidi Says 'Grown-ish's Looming Graduation Day Raises 'Interesting Stakes' for the Crew (Exclusive)
etonline.comA lot of things are changing for our favorite Cal U crew on , and Yara Shahidi couldn't be more excited for fans to see it come together.«I'm excited because this is where the rubber hits the road, and all of the theoretical learning moments and journeys that these kids have been on have become really important and grounded in the fact that they have to figure out what they're about to do with the rest of their lives,» she shares. «I feel like the pending, looming, cloud of graduation gives this part of the season such interesting stakes because there is no messing around, you know?
Zoey's had her time where she dropped out but she's always known that she could go back to school and that's always been a very stable place.
And so, the fact that that's about to be pulled out from under her leads to really interesting storylines of having to distill what matters.»The second half of this season premieres on Thursday, and it picks up right where the first half left off.
When fans left the group of eight (still missing is Halle Bailey's Skye as the actress was filming Disney's live-action adaptation of overseas) in the September midseason finale, «You Beat Me to the Punch,» Zoey (Shahidi) and Aaron's (Trevor Jackson) relationship was hanging by a thread after the latter learned his girlfriend accepted an internship from her ex-boyfriend, Luca (Luka Shabbat).
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