Greater than 35 years later, John Goodman is saying goodbye to Dan Conner.
With the two-part collection finale of The Conners airing Wednesday at 8/7c on ABC, the Emmy winner mentioned the seven-season revival has passed by “so quick” as he opened up about bidding farewell to the patriarchal character he originated on Roseanne in 1988.
“It’s actually onerous. It’s one thing I’m going to overlook for some time. I’m previous and resistant to vary,” he instructed Folks, including: “It was so thrilling after we bought this collectively and it looks like it was two weeks in the past. Displaying up each day and simply being right here with all people. It’s a fantastic place to work.”
Goodman mentioned, “It’s simply being right here each day and like [my costar] Jay [R. Ferguson] mentioned, we simply are available and chuckle loads. And it’s onerous.”
After ABC gave the collection an abbreviated renewal final Could for its seventh and remaining season, Goodman mentioned he’ll “be grateful for a very long time” that the community gave them the “courtesy” of permitting them to complete the present.
Emma Kenney, Laurie Metcalf, Lecy Goranson, Ames McNamara, Sara Gilbert, Jay R. Ferguson and John Goodman in ‘The Conners’ (Disney/Justin Stephens)
Disney/Justin Stephens
After Roseanne Barr starred because the titular middle-class in matriarch in Roseanne for 9 seasons from 1988 to 1997, she reunited her onscreen household for a revival in 2018. Though the up to date collection was renewed for one more that 12 months, Barr was terminated from the present for racially insensitive tweets.
The Conners premiered as a spin-off in October 2018, specializing in the eponymous household within the wake of Roseanne’s loss of life from an opioid overdose.
