Erika Henningsen didn’t always see a clear path for her Four Seasons character, Ginny, in season two.
“I thought I would maybe have to say goodbye to this lovely show after season one,” Henningsen tells The Hollywood Reporter on a recent Zoom call from her Los Angeles home.
Season one ended with the tragic death of Ginny’s boyfriend, Nick (Steve Carell), and the reveal that Ginny was pregnant with their child. “To have that cliffhanger and to know that the writers were going to use that to incorporate me into the friend group beyond just as the girlfriend of Steve Carell’s character was so exciting,” Henningsen says.
In season two, Ginny’s still with The Four Seasons gang. The series, which follows a tight-knit group of friends, was created by Tina Fey, Lang Fisher and Tracey Wigfield. Netflix just announced it’s been renewed for a third season.
It’s fair for Henningsen not to see a clear path back in for her character — the show, after all, is about a friend group, and Ginny was an outsider for most of season one. But Ginny is working through motherhood and the complicated, at times codependent relationship she’s developed with her late boyfriend’s ex-wife, Anne, played by Kerri Kenney-Silver.
