Lucifer: Aimee Garcia on Ella’s Realization and Her Commitment to One Very Funny Scene [Interview]

Please note this interview contains spoilers for Lucifer Season 6.

Lucifer Season 6 is a big one for Ella Lopez, and the way her story ends couldn’t be more perfect.

I recently had the chance to speak with Aimee Garcia about her character’s major realization in Season 6 and the one funny scene with Kevin Alejandro she fought very hard not to break during. She also talked about working with Scott Porter, who plays Ella’s love interest in the final season.  

Ella begins to put the pieces together in Season 6, realizing that Lucifer is in fact the Devil and that many of her friends are celestial beings.

She’s always been a spiritual character who took her faith seriously, so it only made sense that Ella should learn the truth about her friends at some point. It’s even more fitting that she uses her skills as a scientist to figure it all out. 

However, had it not been for the sixth and final season, a renewal that came as a surprise near the end of Lucifer Season 5, we likely wouldn’t have seen Ella’s realization told with such detail.

“I think she might have found out, but not in the way she did in Season 6,” Garcia said. “I don’t know. That’s what I love about Ella. She really is an underdog in so many ways.”

“Ella really benefited from there being extra real estate to tell this story, which I think is perfect,” she continued.

The way the story unfolds in Season 6 allows us to see the emotions Ella goes through, which are less about being surprised and more about being hurt by her friends. She sees it as her friends thinking so little of her that they “didn’t even keep [her] in the loop” and “made such a fool out of [her].”

“I think that it ended in the perfect way, and I think there would have been some feeling of unresolved emotions if we didn’t have a Season 6,” Garcia added. (She spoke a bit more about why she’s grateful for the final season in the first part of our conversation. You can read that part of our interview here.)

The final season of Lucifer also gives Ella the chance to have a love interest who is actually good for her, and that’s Carol.

“Ella has the worst taste in men. She constantly is drawn to the bad guys. And the bad guys are not good for her. I think it’s a form of self-sabotage, where she rejects the guys before they reject her because that’s way too painful,” Garcia explained. It isn’t until the final season that Ella “finally has the courage to realize that she is deserving of love.”

We first met Carol Corbett, played by Scott Porter, during Lucifer Season 5, and he has a prominent role in Season 6. Garcia spoke fondly about working with the actor during the final season.

“Scott Porter — let me just tell you something about Scott Porter,” Garcia exclaimed. “Scott Porter, not only is he a wonderful human being, but he was so earnest.”

Garcia described how Porter would come in with questions and would be focused on every detail. “He just made you want to be better. I was lucky to have a lot of scenes with him, and he made me better. You’re only as good as your scene partner.”

“He just came in with a whole new energy,” she continued. “It was really fun to see him discover Carol.”

Ella also had some memorable scenes with Kevin Alejandro’s Dan this season. When Dan returns to Earth as a ghost, he’s desperate to be able to communicate with his friends (other than the celestial ones).

At one point, he’s trying his best to get Ella’s attention in the lab, yelling directly in her face. But he’s unsuccessful, and she doesn’t flinch a bit. 

I had to ask about filming that scene and how difficult it must have been to get through it with a straight face. 

“First of all, Kevin is one of my faves,” Garcia said. “He is not only an incredible actor, but an incredible director and an incredible human. Thank God he had some mints that day.”

“I wouldn’t break. And one take, he just spit in my face,” Garcia recalled. “He would just get into it, and he’s so funny. I had to bite my lip to not break because I wanted to be a professional actor, and he did spit in my face — obviously not on purpose. He was so into it, I didn’t want to ruin the take.”

“I’m really germaphobic, and all I could think of was, ‘Oh my gosh, I love this guy so much that I am not going to ruin this take for him because he is in the zone, but the second that we cut, I am going to wipe his saliva off my face.’ Because he really sprayed it on thick.”

“It was really fun. It was really funny. It was very challenging,” she said. “But you know, when you work with someone like Kevin, you just know he’s going to always throw the ball back and you’re always going to feel safe.”

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Lucifer Season 6 is currently available for streaming on Netflix.

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