Quantrell D. Colbert/BET(NEW YORK) — Wendy Raquel Robinson’s voice quivers with emotion when she speaks about the final season of BET’s The Game.
“We had an amazing ride. It’s kind of unreal that it’s coming to an end,” she tells ABC Radio. “We finished it. You know, we shot it so it’s already in the can. I feel like it’s so iconic. And I feel like I’m leaving behind a legacy that I’m so proud of. And I’m proud of the work we’ve done and I’m proud of the evolution of the show.”
The Game was almost like the TV show that couldn’t die. Fans resurrected it on BET after it was abruptly canceled on The CW in 2009. Its ninth and final season will air this fall though the show has already wrapped production.
“It’s bittersweet. It really is. It’s bittersweet, but I think it’s time that we go out on top,” Robinson says.
The actress says her last day of filming was one that included some tears. “My last night of shooting, unbeknownst to me, they brought out a huge cart [with] champagne classes. Now mind you, it’s like 5 o’clock in the morning and we were at the end of a 16-hour day,” she recalls. “But we were serenaded by [creator] Mara Brock Akil, [director] Salim Akil, the showrunner at the time Kenny Smith. They all stopped and toasted each and every character. So personal and so emotional.”
So when the show, which is centered around a fictional San Diego football team, returns this fall, what can fans expect from Robinson’s character?
“Tasha Mack I wouldn’t say is stuck in a love triangle. I think she’s trying to smooth it out into a rectangle,” Robinson says with a laugh. “The four people being Rick Fox, Pookie, my baby Kai and myself. She comes to grips that either she’s going to be a single mom, or she’s gonna end up with someone and it’ll be a family. I can honestly say she has a fairy tale ending.”
Now that filming The Game has come to an end, Robinson has more time to devote to young artists based in South Los Angeles through her Amazing Grace Conservatory, which she founded in 1996 with Tracy Lamar Coley. The training school will soon premiere their spring production, Sisters Act Too.
“It’s an original adaption of the movie [Sister Act 2]. You know, where the movie is with Whoopi Goldberg and Lauryn Hill, and it was set in 1993, we made it present day, so it’s 2015. So we updated the music. So it’s so relevant and it’s just a really poignant story.”
Sisters Act Too will premiere Saturday at the Nate Holden Performing Arts Center in Los Angeles. For tickets, visit ItsMySeat.com.
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