According to a writer on Degrassi, Drake threatened to quit the series if his character remained in a wheelchair after season 5.
, who played Paige Michalchuk on the show, noted in Thursday’s article that Drake “struggled” physically “with having to all of a sudden do everything confined to a chair.” She explained, “That was really hard for him. I definitely have a few memories of him toppling the chair over and falling off of makeshift ramps that they’d constructed for him.
Collins added, “I don’t want to speak for anyone, but I think [Aubrey] probably struggled with the idea that he was one of two Black characters on the show, and that he was the one who was winding up shot and in a wheelchair, which obviously is part of a much larger conversation.”“There was always a conversation: ‘Is there a surgery that Jimmy can have? Can we somehow get him out of this?’”, who played Snake Simpson and directed several episodes, said. “The idea was played with a lot.
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