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Warning: This article contains spoilers forSweet Magnoliasseason 4.
The town of Serenity lost one of its own.
Shake up, indeed.
Heather Headley, JoAnna Garcia Swisher, Brooke Elliott.Credit:Courtesy of Netflix
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Why did you decide to kill Bill?
Was that always the plan?
SHERYL J. ANDERSON: It was not part of the plan from the get-go.
Chris Klein as Bill on ‘Sweet Magnolias’.Courtesy of Netflix
We felt that Bill and Kathy had reached their redemption in Serenity.
We were looking for a cataclysmic event that would shake up everybody’s lives.
Am I with the person or people I’m meant to be with?
Heather Headley, Justin Bruening, JoAnna Garcia Swisher and Brooke Elliott on ‘Sweet Magnolias.'.Courtesy of Netflix
What was Chris Kleins reaction to the news?
Why was now the right time to introduce Bill’s mother, Bonnie?
We hadn’t had the right moment to bring them to town.
Chris Medlin on ‘Sweet Magnolias’.Courtesy of Netflix
What does that moment reveal about their characters?
[Bonnie] held onto certain assumptions about everybody, but most particularly about Maddie.
When Bonnie tells everyone Isaac’s secret, she says she thought everyone knew.
Did she actually think they all knew who Isaac’s father was?
She honestly thought everybody knew, and that’s actually to Bill’s credit.
He didnt come home and say, Mama, you remember that baby you helped hide?
I met him, but nobody knows.
He was like, I met him.
Hes a fine young man.
Hes a fabulous addition to Serenity.
It speaks well of Bill, but also of Isaac.
Bill never imagined his mother would go back to Serenity without [him] and share that news.
It was our vision that he had shared it with her out of pride.
This interview has been edited for length and clarity.
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