Yahoo Finance Exclusive: For Life's Nicholas Pinnock responds to the show ending
For Life has sadly come to an end after its second season, but according to star Nicholas Pinnock, that doesn't necessarily have to mean closing the book on the show permanently.
The ABC and Sky legal drama, which is inspired by the real-life story of Isaac Wright Jr, a man who studied law to help overturn convictions after he was wrongfully imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit, has no more episodes planned following its second season, which aired earlier this year in the US and will hit UK screens today (September 27).
Pinnock, who plays lead character Aaron Wallace in the show, has exclusively spoken to Digital Spy about his feelings over saying goodbye to the drama, confirming that the cast and crew didn't know that For Life was going to be ending while they were shooting its second season.
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"No, we didn't know," he said. "We planned for the possibility that there may not have been one, but we didn't know at all, no."
In exciting news for fans of For Life, Pinnock suggested that if there is a demand for more of the show, he certainly wouldn't be opposed to returning to his character.
"I think there's more of the story that could have been told. I'm a great believer that if there's an appetite for something... if people want it, I believe that we should do what we can to give it to them," he said. "But if there is a demand for it and people want it then they need to campaign and try to bring it back.
"If not then that's absolutely fine. I'm not disappointed that we didn't get a third season because I think we managed to tell some really good stories and managed to give something that we are all very, very proud of to an audience, and a now global audience who are responding really, really well to it.
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"If it never comes back I can't be sad because I think what we've given them is something worthy. And if there were an opportunity I would be absolutely up for considering another season or another couple seasons, for sure."
It sounds like it's all down to the fans now...
Pinnock also spoke to us about the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on people in prison and how For Life managed to weave the real-life situation into the second season's plot.
"We don't think enough about what goes on in prison," he said. " The general population do not have a care for people who are incarcerated unless they know somebody who's in prison.
"So very little was known about what happened in prisons globally during the lockdown. No one thought about it, no one thought about them. And they were suffering and they were going through the same panics and fears that we went through with the added amplification that they were incarcerated as well, and it was really hard."
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He added that the issue had highlighted to him "how important prison reform is, more so now than ever".
"There is so much to be done with prison reform," he explained. "Especially with what I know about mental health through my own personal experiences. The way that we deal with people who are incarcerated is absolutely atrocious..." adding: "There isn't enough money in rehabilitation".
Saying that calls to the mental health charity Mind, who he works with, "went through the roof" during the pandemic, the actor explained that "people who have been imprisoned understood" the feeling of being in lockdown.
"I had a lot of people who were incarcerated who, in season two while those episodes were being shown, could identify with what was going on and understood how people felt in their homes," he said.
For Life season 2 will air in the UK on Sky Witness and NOW on September 27 at 9pm. Season 1 is available to catch up now on Sky On-Demand and NOW.
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