Having a show come to an end that you\u2019ve worked on for more than half your life is definitely bittersweet. Hank Greespan, The Neighborhood<\/a><\/em>\u2018s youngest cast member, shared what\u2019s in store for Grover Johnson, his ending, and more.<\/p>\n The CBS<\/a> show is set to end<\/a> on Monday, May 11. With only two episodes left until the Butlers and the Johnsons say goodbye forever, Greenspan shared that the last day of filming was \u201cbittersweet.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cIt was more bitter than sweet, really,\u201d he said. \u201cNo one wanted The Neighborhood<\/em> to end. No one was like, \u2018Alright, looking forward to new opportunities.\u2019 The industry is rough right now, so it isn\u2019t ideal.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cPeople would have wanted it to run a little bit longer, I think, but I think the ending that we did was really well written.\u201d Greenspan also told TV Insider that the series finale was rewritten<\/a>. He and his castmates had a say in how it would end after they did a table read<\/a> and thought it \u201cneeded more punch.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThat was the longest week of shooting ever,\u201d he said. \u201cBecause it was bittersweet. It was the final run-throughs we had. It felt like you savored it more. Everyone\u2019s going to be excited to see the ending.\u201d<\/p>\n The ending will feature both Marty (Marcel Spears<\/a>) and Malcolm\u2019s (Sheaun McKinney<\/a>) weddings<\/a>, as well as \u201ctearful goodbyes\u201d and \u201cold tensions.\u201d But what\u2019s in store for Grover?<\/p>\n Find out what else he had to say about being the only child actor on set, why The Neighborhood<\/em> resonated with fans for so long, and more on his indie movie, Ethan Bloom<\/em>, which is slowly rolling into theaters nationwide.<\/p>\n Monty Brinton\/CBS<\/p>\n<\/div>\n TVI: Signing on as a child, did you ever think The Neighborhood<\/em> would be more than half of your life so far?<\/strong><\/p>\n Greenspan<\/strong>: No. I mean, I think I didn\u2019t even really, as a kid, I didn\u2019t really understand what I was getting into, if that makes sense. It was hard to fully comprehend the full scale of what was happening. I was only six or seven years old, and I knew that I was on a show, but it was impossible to comprehend. I would say only about maybe in a couple of years in, did I realize millions of people watch this every day or every week. That\u2019s a huge deal. It\u2019s not that I didn\u2019t know it, but it was that I couldn\u2019t grasp it, if that makes sense.<\/p>\n How did you tackle being a kid, going to school, etc., and working on a major show?<\/strong><\/p>\n Well, it was hard at first because I was still going to school at the same time as I was doing The Neighborhood<\/em> for the very first year. Basically, the way we tried to work it out with my school was the idea was that I would do The Neighborhood<\/em> for half of the year, and then go into public school for the rest of the year. Then, that was kind of a cluster. It didn\u2019t really work out. There were a lot of things that weren\u2019t matched because, with this, you work with a set teacher when you\u2019re doing TV. All people under 17 years old need to do school with a studio teacher for at least three hours a day to fulfill the requirements. So, because my studio teacher had basically no connection with the school, there were a bunch of disconnects. There were things that they taught in the first half of the year, but I didn\u2019t learn, so I didn\u2019t know the fundamentals.<\/p>\n Also, I just don\u2019t like going to school personally, but eventually, after that, we switched to doing online schooling, which is basically the same curriculum, but you do it from a computer, which is what I did with my studio teacher, which was a lot easier because it was more consistent. It wasn\u2019t draining like I wasn\u2019t ever super stressed out over my amount of work I had to do or anything, or it was never overwhelming because the nature of the show is just very calm and I worked with very nice people who respected me and it was very nice to work on that set. I never had any toxic arguments or incidents on that set.<\/p>\n I talked to Amber Stevens West<\/a> a few weeks ago, and she said, even though she only joined this season, the one thing that made her cry the most<\/a> was thinking about how much you grew up on the show. Was there anything that made you emotional about The Neighborhood<\/em> ending?<\/strong><\/p>\n I was kind of was. She\u2019s definitely right. I was the tangible way of showing that the show has changed.I was a little, little kid when I first started, and now I\u2019m a tall child. [laughs]. But that was probably the most common thing I got told that week was how sad it just was. Everyone would look at me and get all sad.<\/p>\n I don\u2019t know the things that made me sad were probably shooting the final scene, probably the most. I think the final scene was actually the first scene of the last episode that we shot, and it was. It was also late; it was a late shooting day, and we were all pretty exhausted. Then at the end, they brought out a big cake, and everyone celebrated, and it was really sad but very, very cute, and I remember Beth [Behrs<\/a>] told herself that she wouldn\u2019t cry, but she did. I remember before the final scene that we shot, everyone was crying. I think Beth made like a bet with me on who would and wouldn\u2019t cry. But, Beth cried at the table read and at the shooting of the actual final scene, which wasn\u2019t the last thing we shot, but anyway, it was very cute, but I got a little choked up at the end.<\/p>\n Why do you think that The Neighborhood<\/em> has lasted for eight seasons? What made fans resonate with it?<\/strong><\/p>\n It\u2019s interesting because I grew up at a time after sitcoms. A set producer, Patrick, asked me what classic sitcoms I grew up with, and I couldn\u2019t really name any. I didn\u2019t grow up with any classic sitcoms, or I grew up with Cartoon Network shows, like [<\/a>The Amazing World of] Gumball<\/a>,<\/em> but that was past everyone\u2019s time. Everyone on that set grew up with Roseanne<\/a>,<\/em> or they grew up with a Nickelodeon one like iCarly<\/em><\/a> or Victorious<\/a>,<\/em> or something like that.<\/p>\n Sitcoms seem to resonate with people in a way that other shows can\u2019t, just because of their nature. The characters in a sitcom become your lives, and if it\u2019s a good sitcom, you\u2019ll want to see what they\u2019re going to make it out of it, and it just feels like a very cozy thing. In a world full of chaos and uncertainty, sitcoms specifically resonate with people because they are consistent, but not in a boring way, in an interesting way where you know the characters and it\u2019ll always wrap around at the end. It\u2019s heartwarming. It\u2019s a sweet thing.<\/p>\n It\u2019s a combination of very, very good writing and just a very, very good cast. Also, the set, I had no reference for it because it was the first set I\u2019d ever worked on, but people who were veterans of the industry said that The Neighborhood<\/em> was easily one of the best sets, if not the most fun set to be on that they\u2019ve ever been on, just because of how everyone looks out for each other. Basically, there\u2019s no one who gets special treatment. I just like the concept of that a lot.<\/p>\n
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