My stepfather, who passed away, explained it’s planned obsolescence. When she was cast, I asked, “How do you know so much?” I will bring stuff to her and I’ll say, “Why doesn’t this coffeemaker work? I’ve taken it apart and I can’t figure it out.” I hate throwing stuff out.
On Assembly Required, April Wilkerson’s just a great builder. I would always bring stuff in that breaks at my house. I went into that show because I wanted to celebrate that. Watching your History channel series, Assembly Required, do you think more people are going DIY since they were home during COVID lockdowns? I walked away admiring the work that I got to be a part of. But within those rules, Last Man Standing was able to get funny stuff that you could do at your Thanksgiving table with all the kids. What are you proud of that Last Man Standing achieved? There are a lot of winks and a nod to this family that has been together 10 years. We’re paying homage to the sitcom world, we’re paying homage to family. We didn’t want to leave a room and turn the light out. Will the finale end on a note about the importance of family? Last Man Standing has always had fun with Mike’s role as a husband and a father. There’s been real tough times, and all the way through it, for this big a group, it was a very close connection. There’s been deaths of crew members and family. When you get into this 10th year, adding the one year we were off that we weren’t off really because we were kind of online, we have had some relationships. You get into this business and you learn that projects come and go, and it’s best not to get associated too deeply with any project because another one comes along, and you’re asked to be friends with people and get involved, but everyone broke the rules on this one. It was tough because you’d drift in and out. When it got to be the actors looking at the characters they’re playing in a very sly way, it became funny. How emotional did it get filming the last few episodes?Įvery time we got into the family that lived in the sitcom, it got very emotional. Related: Tim Allen Talks Toy Story 4, Tom Hanks, Comedy and Celebrating 21 Years of Sobriety We did 21 episodes during this horrible time and we finished. Those guys, our production design team, and the producers, and the line producer did it. Not only for that reason, but because COVID had shut the audience off. Because that’s exactly what Fox did out of respect for us, and it was a depressing year. I said to myself, “It would have been great if they would have let us know we’re not coming back next season, then we could write ourselves out.” I’m sorry I said that. It just didn’t feel like it was time to go. I heard everybody say, “It’s over.” ABC wasn’t interested. I said, “I don’t think this patient’s done yet.” And I really fought. I was like the last person in the hospital room with the patient who was on life support. It was about three, four weeks after we shut down for the season, and it was too sad. I remember when ABC first canceled Last Man Standing, you said there were more stories to tell.
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