Abbott Elementary creator Quinta Brunson doesn’t want her hit show to “carry” the realities of gun violence. The Emmy Award-winning actress explained her reasoning during a recent interview with Glamour.
“I just think about the day-to-day in a workplace comedy, and I don't think that that's the realistic day-to-day in the classroom. I say that knowing that school shootings happen all the time, every day or every week, unfortunately,” she told the outlet. “But there are two different realities.”
Brunson continued, “There's the one present in the classroom where teachers are just trying to get through a lesson. And then there's the outside perspective of us engaging with teachers through the news.”