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It cuts Jane like a knife knowing Mayfair is right.
Credit: Paul Sarkis/NBC
Thats par for the course for Jean-Baptistes final days on set.
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: What was your initial reaction to learning Mayfair was going to die?
MARIANNE JEAN-BAPTISTE:Surprise.
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I was quite surprised that she was going to die.
Has it been hard to let go of this character?
Not particularly hard to let go of it.
With acting, you constantly are playing different roles.
Obviously doing series television, you dont have the full arc of whats going to happen to your character.
Its very much on the fly.
How hard has it been to say goodbye to the cast?
My friends, my little friends.
But, in a lot of ways, Mayfair did some pretty bad things.
Well, thats debatable.
Mayfair felt that she was doing something by taking down these criminals.
Should she have done it?
So would I do it?
Do you think she deserved to die over it, though?
I dont think she deserved to die over it.
And Im not sure that she dies over Daylight.
I think thats why she dies.
How do you think this will change the team since Mayfair was the beating heart of this group?
I think theyll survive.
Weller will be in charge, and theyll figure it all out and work together.
Youre filming your death scene today.
How do you get into that mindset?
Is this your first death scene as an actress?
Yeah, this is.
So theyre very bloody lucky, Id say.
The show does deal in a lot of flashbacks.
Do you hope to see Mayfair return, maybe tell more of that story between her and Sofia?
I dont see that happening, really, but you never know.
Mayfairs death is coming in a year of television where a lot of LGBT characters are being killed off.
Do you expect any backlash in that regard?
I have not seen anything thus far.
Look, I just think theres a lot of killing, full stop.
Arrest people, man.
I mean, were in law enforcement.
Have a few more arrests other than shooting to kill.
I mean, I cant say.
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