It was a weird feeling.
He felt like a big part of me.
And knowing he was going to die was such a weird thing.
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And it seems like you had to keep it a secret for a while.Yeah, I did.
The episode that aired last night I shot three months ago.
So I’ve been keeping it quiet for three months, andbeforethat for six months.
[Laughs] So nine months I’ve probably had to keep quiet.
Did you try and convince her not to kill him off?I honestly didn’t.
Because it felt like it made sense to me when she said it.
I get it, and I get that it’s the journey that has to happen for the characters.
It was just really hard to film the scene of him dying.
That was a really weird day for me.
I didn’t know how it was going to go.
I had no clue.
It made it more intense, but it was a cool move too to do it mid-season.
Because that’s more of a season finale [throw in thing]… And it felt very real.
You never know when you say goodbye to someone that it’s the last time.Yeah!
That’s what I took away from that actually.
I saw that you left Gina a message saying goodbye as Michael.
So I left that [message] for her.
So I left that on there for her to watch when she was about to do the scene.
I didn’t really need [it] because I was living him.
That whole episode for me was super emotional.
That’s another thing I took away.
Just taking for granted assuming that you’re going to live for that [long].
It’s living in the moment and appreciating it as much as you possibly can.
I took that away too.
It feels like it’s a very spiritual thing to go through for me.
Jennie Synder Urman teased that Michael might be back in flashbacks.
I’m just kind of guessing, but I’m assuming that’s what it might be.
So you haven’t gotten a chance to shoot anything yet?No, I haven’t.
What do you think you’ll miss most about playing Michael?The love he has for Jane.
The amount of love he has for Jane, and how sincere he was in that relationship.
I also like the fun stuff with Rogelio.
I liked the comedic moments that I got to do [and] the detective stuff was fun too.
It was just tough to memorize the large amounts of dialogue like cracking the case.
But the action part was fun.
Jane the Virginairs Mondays at 9 p.m.
ET on The CW.
Read EW’s postmortem with the EPhere.
