
Why did you decide she should be with him? TVLINE | Mingo made a late-in-the-game play for Daphne’s heart. They will always be sitting at each other’s table, and maybe it’ll be complicated and weird, or maybe it won’t, but for now, the triangle is not quite a love triangle. They’ll always be having Thanksgiving together, if Bay and Travis end up together in the long run. We know that these three will always be connected. It just felt like there was a little bit of a triangle without being a triangle. This choice she made to ask Emmett to go with, first of all, that was intended to honor the whole heart of the show, which is siblings by unusual circumstances, which is what Bay and Daphne are, and so are the guys.

He’s going through some rough times, and she’ll always be there as a friend. It felt like Bay had moved forward and didn’t want to go back. It’s not like a hundred episodes ago, I knew this. But after much debate, the room felt pretty clear this is how things shook out in the course of the series. There was never any debate about which guy Bay was going to end up with? TVLINE | You said you knew Bay and Travis would stay together. The elegance of her starting the show as a single mom and ending it with a new partner and a new son was just really beautiful to me. She had to make that decision really fast. Like with Regina, we always knew that Eric was the guy, and that Luca was for now. But there wasn’t one big turn where I felt like, “Oh God, that will never be told.” All of the key stuff with the key players, we got to do. It was more like there were stories and episodes we were bummed we didn’t get to do because we thought the fans would love them. Speaking of Toby, we wanted to explore that family becoming Jewish, and the Kennishes throwing a Passover seder and how fun that would be. That probably would have been over the course of the next ten episodes. I always wanted to have Toby give up music and choose to move into a career with disability. There were decisions we may have taken more time with. So were there certain things that you had to speed up or that you didn’t quite get to? TVLINE | The news came down while you were in the middle of production on the season. But a lot of it we decided in the moment after many, many weeks of throwing things around.

I always knew that we would shake up John and Kathryn one last time and remind everyone that they’re the center, and they will not be moved as a couple.

But I don’t know that we knew the exact moves of the story until we were faced with that in the moment. There were general decisions that were made, like that Bay and Travis stay together. TVLINE | How much of this ending was what you originally envisioned before you got the news that the show wasn’t coming back?
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Elsewhere, Regina convinced Eric to turn himself in so they could one day be together, and Kathryn discovered that before the switch was unearthed, John thought Bay wasn’t his daughter, but stuck around anyway.īelow, Weiss talks about her vision for the series ender, the storylines that got cut and the possibility of a reunion.

Still, Bay and Travis reaffirmed their commitment to each other as a long-distance couple, while Daphne and Mingo reunited. “There was a lot of discussion about Bay as a young woman and that the conversation kept getting framed as, ‘Which boy was she going to choose?’ and we were are all very sensitive to that. Always.The show’s central love triangle also took a familial turn when, rather than moving to Japan with her boyfriend Travis, Bay asked her ex Emmett to accompany his “brother.” And Bay is a character who always has a strong point of view. As an actor you go through all the acting classes, and they tell you your character always has to have a point of view-whether it agrees with your own personal point of view or not, that character has to have a strong point of view. Glamour: How did you prepare for this story line? Vanessa Marano: It's very hard to play a character who doesn't have a clear point of view. Last week, Switched at Birth star Vanessa Marano, who plays Bay Kennish on the long-running teen series, stopped by Glamour's offices-and talked to us about the story line, the aftermath, and what this means for Bay. In a recent, controversial episode of the ABC Family hit show Switched at Birth, Bay Kennish is the victim of what appears to be date rape-or, as the synopsis page describes it: "After a night of drinking with her friend Tank, Bay wakes to find that she doesn't remember all the details of the night." The episode kicked off a firestorm online, with fans of the show taking sides-either defending Tank or blaming Bay.
