There are many things I can live with, but finding out that Sierra McClain will not be back for season five of 911 Lone Star is not one of them.
You’re telling me the only person you couldn’t figure the contract out with is the dark skinned Black woman who is arguably the heart and conscious of the show…
I’m not surprised but I am incredibly angry and disappointed.
I don’t even watch lone star anymore but even I know Grace and judd were a big part of what made that show great and your telling me they couldn’t even negotiate right to keep Sierra McClain!? Lmao nah nah the rob lowe show is about to be cancelled after the next season.
9-1-1: Lone Star: First Look Photos of Grace and Her Sisters Feature a McClain Family Reunion (Exclusive)
When 9-1-1: Lone Star co-creator and showrunner Tim Minear approached actress Sierra McClain about an upcoming episode that would expand the immediate family of Grace Ryder, they both had a clear idea of who should play her character's sisters: her real-life sisters, Lauryn and China Anne McClain.
"Having my sisters come to Lone Star was something I'd wanted to do for a while," Sierra told TV Guide in an exclusive first look at the chapter airing April 18. "Then, during one of me and Tim's beginning-of-the-season chats, he pulled the idea right out of my mouth! I certainly didn't think it would happen as soon as it did, but before I knew it, he was sharing storyline possibilities with me. I've lived with Grace for four years now, so being able to introduce this aspect of her family life that's so similar to mine, in such a personal way, really helps make Grace even more real to me."
In next week's episode, titled "Open," Grace struggles with confronting her father, Benjamin (William Allen Young), over his past infidelity. But while babysitting Charlie one day with his wife, Denice (Barbara Eve Harris), Benjamin suffers a heart attack, forcing Grace and her sisters, Lisa (China Anne) and Ashley (Lauryn), to come together in his hour of need.
As viewers might recall from the "Difficult Conversations" episode of the second season, Grace's husband, Judd (Jim Parrack), found his father-in-law suffering from hypoglycemic shock while "fooling around" with another woman — who was most definitely not his mother-in-law — in a hotel room. While Judd struggled with whether or not to tell his wife, Grace learned of her father's actions by the end of the hour. But she decided against telling her mother, and the storyline has been a loose end on the show for years — until now.
The episode will reunite the tight-knit McClain sisters, who form the girl group Thriii, for the first time on-screen since working together briefly in China Anne's Disney Channel musical sitcom A.N.T. Farm, which ran from 2011 to 2014. They made their acting debut alongside each other in Rob Hardy's The Gospel (2005), which starred Boris Kodjoe and Idris Elba, and played Elba's daughters in Tyler Perry's Daddy's Little Girls (2007).
"This is the first time I've gotten to do some real acting with my sisters in years," Sierra noted, "and the fact that we're playing actual sisters is just the icing on an incredibly special cake."
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[Image ID: Digital painting of Grace Ryder from 9-1-1: Lone Star. Grace is pictured against a purple background, from the side, looking past her shoulder into the distance, as a golden glow emanates from behind her. Her face, in a neutral, pensive expression, is painted in a realistic style; her clothes and curly hair--reflecting the soft golden light and picking up purple shadows, seem like they're beginning to fade and blend with with background. A signature in the top right of the image reads, 'Dot [flower symbol] s'. /end ID.]