Andy Samberg: Final season of 'Brooklyn Nine-Nine' was 'emotionally rough'
Brooklyn Nine-Nine is actually ending this time.
The Emmy-winning police comedy will wrap with a 10-episode eighth season, premiering Thursday (Aug. 12) on NBC, and Andy Samberg stopped by Late Night with Seth Meyers to discuss how difficult it was to film the show's final season.
"It was hard," the 42-year-old Saturday Night Live alumnus said. "I mean, it was hard shooting, A, because the COVID protocols are so strict, and you know, there's no writer on set. There's not people throwing around a lot of ideas. It's a lot of, like, masks on, and then action, take them off, and then you do [the scene] and then you put them back on."
"But just as it got towards the end, it got really emotionally rough because we all realized it was truly ending," Samberg continued. "And we all love each other and been spending all that time together for eight years. Yeah, there was a lot of crying at the wrong times. There's scenes where you could argue, like, you should cry. And then there's other stuff where it's like I just fell out, and I'd be like, 'I just realized it's the last time Terry [Crews] is gonna say he loves yogurt.'"
Created by Dan Goor and Michael Schur, Brooklyn Nine-Nine centers around Detective Jake Peralta (Samberg) and his crew at the New York Police Department's 99th Precinct. The series was canceled by FOX after five seasons in May 2018 but immediately picked up and revived by NBC.
It was reported by The Hollywood Reporter in February that Brooklyn Nine-Nine was going to end across 10 episodes, "its lowest order ever," and Variety relayed in late May that the Season 8 premiere was slated for Aug. 12 with back-to-back episodes.
Goor confirmed within this recent Variety profile of Andre Braugher that the final season will include a storyline address police brutality. Goor previously announced in June 2020, during the immediate aftermath of George Floyd's murder at the hands of since-jailed Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, that Nine-Nine donated $100,000 to the National Bail Fund Network.
Watch Samberg's full Late Night appearance below.
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