What Happened to Eve on Last Man Standing
Spoilers below for the final episode of Last Man Standing, so be warned if you lot haven't yet watched!
The past year has been a wild and bumpy one for Fox's Last Man Standing, which brought its fourth dimension-jumping 9th and final flavour to a close with an episode that managed to mostly bring Kaitlyn Dever's Eve Baxter dorsum while serving as a reflection of the flavour premiere. The second episode in the i-hour finale, "Proceed On Truckin'," wasn't able to physically become Dever back into her family's arms, simply showrunner Kevin Abbott & Co. did indeed keep Eve'due south history and relationship with Tim Allen's Mike at the forefront. Plus, as CinemaBlend learned from showrunner Kevin Abbott, there's a fairly surprising story backside how her Zoom call appearances happened.
The last episode's plot revolved around Mike'south long-treasured and long-tinkered-with Ford F-100 being stolen and eventually stripped for parts, inspiring the family to come together for a memorial scene that doubled as a take chances for the bandage to say their goodbyes to Terminal Man Continuing itself. That scene marked Kaitlyn Dever'southward offset appearance in the finale, mourning the truck she'd worked on many times with Mike, non to mention having learned how to bulldoze in it. Then, just before the terminal vlog scene, fans got a sweet final family moment with Mike (and Nancy Travis' Vanessa, of course) beingness proud of Air Forcefulness Eve for breaking the audio barrier.
When I talked to Kevin Abbott alee of Final Man Continuing'southward concluding episode ever (at to the lowest degree until another network hopefully steps up to the Outdoor Man-branded plate), I asked him how of import it was to give the terminal spotlight to Mike and Eve, with Kaitlyn Dever unable to exist physically there for the episode. In his words:
Yeah. Obviously, we wanted to get Kaitlyn whenever we could. She'southward merely an enormous part of the show and our family over in that location. Before COVID, what nosotros had working against us is that she'south a astounding actress and gets a lot of piece of work. [Laughs.] She was e'er wanting to exercise the prove, only she simply was working a lot. And then of course, COVID comes in and that'southward really difficult. . . . But when it came fourth dimension for the series finale, she was working on something in Atlanta, and unfortunately, we were not going to exist able to get her back in time and to go through all the quarantine protocols. So we tried everything we could, and we were only able to go her on Zoom on the prove. Only you lot know, I idea that actually worked pretty well because it gave us a head-fake ending in the memorial scene and then a really compelling, emotional moment betwixt Eve and Mike. You lot know, Tim feels very fatherly towards Kaitlyn, so that also had a personally large meaning to him. So information technology all worked out. Nosotros would have loved to take had her, and had we been able to guarantee that, we would have written the scene differently. Simply I was only as happy in terms of the end product to go the mode that we went.
When Concluding Man Standing was picked upwardly by Play a trick on following the ABC cancellation, fans were ever and so grateful that Kaitlyn Dever didn't join sometime stars Molly Ephraim and Flynn Morrison in exiting the sitcom. And though Eve definitely hasn't been effectually equally much every bit viewers would take wanted in the by three seasons, it's always nice to know how much care is taken to brand sure the storylines hinge on her begetter-girl relationship with Mike.
Now, if you were perhaps similar me and assumed that Kaitlyn Dever was far away and in the middle of some other project when she filmed her final Concluding Human being Standing moments, showrunner Kevin Abbott said that wasn't the case at all. It turns out Dever was actually there on the show's set to moving picture those Zoom calls, but equally it went for several botched attempts to secure the actress earlier in the flavor before she actually appeared in Episode 914, timing and COVID safety got in the fashion of a more up close and personal ending. According to the executive producer:
We were able to get her on the stage for the filming of that. She couldn't be with the cast, because the cast was all going to be maskless, and we couldn't get all the protocols washed for that. But for the coiffure, which was all masked up, nosotros could. She came in Monday to shoot that the mean solar day before our final day of taping. We were able to physically see her, but we couldn't put her physically in the scene. There was a big push to attempt to cheat and put her in that scene anyway - [Laughs] - which nosotros resisted, Because I idea the scene had been written a certain fashion, and it would have been written very differently if she was going to be in the scene. Somebody of Eve'southward presence, of Kaitlyn's presence, would emotionally change the scene if she walked into it, so you'd have to have addressed that. Non that we couldn't have, but information technology worked the fashion information technology did. And so it kind of was the best of both worlds where she's in the show, and the bandage and writers who were there got to see her once more for 1 last final time, and that was great. It was really special.
While Kevin Abbott didn't go into total-on details about how they would take had to cheat to make Eve's concrete appearance piece of work, it likely would have involved an awkward filming situation with shots of an obviously alone Kaitlyn Dever intercut with shots of everyone else together without Eve. While that probably would accept been fine for some people, it's best to only avoid that kind of TV fakery and become with something more organic. Similar going faster than the speed of sound in a jet. [grunt grunt grunt]
Plus, one should e'er count their blessings in situations where there are no guarantees, and so it's awesome to have learned that even though audiences didn't get to see it, at least Tim Allen, Nancy Travis and quite a few other bandage and coiffure members were able to celebrate the final episode with Dever in person rather than over a laptop or tablet.
Last Human being Standing has now officially wrapped its not-topical Flavour 9, with all 194 episodes available to stream on Hulu. While waiting for more than from our interview with showrunner Kevin Abbott (and to run across more from Kaitlyn Dever in the upcoming drama Dear Evan Hansen, remember there are tons of great shows coming to the 2021 Summertime TV schedule,
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Source: https://www.cinemablend.com/television/2567756/last-man-standing-series-finale-kaitlyn-dever-eve-tim-allen-mike-nancy-travis-vanessa
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