The Rookie leading lady Jenna Dewan is pregnant in real life. She is expecting her third child while season 6 of the police series is still being filmed. Jenna Dewan announced that she was pregnant two months ago. However, The Rookie will deal with it differently than her fellow moms.
The Rookie has always incorporated previous pregnancies into the story
Many series have tried to hide it more or less well when actresses are heavily pregnant in front of the camera. Bellies are often hidden behind large blazers and half-height wardrobes. Often the living conditions simply do not suit the series character. The Rookie has always accepted the circumstances of its actresses. We were already able to see Alyssa Diaz and Mekia Cox virtually accompanying them live during their pregnancies.
Cox and Diaz play the two successful badass detectives Harper and Lopez. Showrunner Alexi Hawley showed us that this is also compatible with motherhood and family.
In an interview with TVLine in February 2024, he revealed that it had always been like this: He got a call from an actress saying she was pregnant and said to his screenwriters the next day at work: “Okay, so we’ll take care of that this year.” Jenna Dewan’s pregnancy is now the first one he wants to hide. Why actually? The timing in season 6 would actually be good.
Despite wanting to have children in season 6: We don’t get to see Jenna Dewan’s baby bump
Not wanting to show Jenna Dewan’s pregnancy is a creative decision that fans can certainly accept. However The Rookie confuses with the current 6th episode the 6th season. Because suddenly Dewan’s character Bailey wants a child – in keeping with the real-life pregnancy.
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Jenna Dewan as Bailey in The Rookie: She wants a child
In season 6, she and her new husband John (Nathan Fillion) briefly look after a toddler who has lost his parents. Bailey then throws overboard her conviction that she doesn’t want to be a mother and has a surprising desire to have children. John needs time to think about whether he feels ready for this (again). At the end of episode 6, they decide to get pregnant.
So it could be a storyline about an unfulfilled desire to have children or Alexi Hawley has simply changed her mind since the interview. Maybe he has us He was also fooled by his statement and although it doesn’t show the pregnancy, it presents it to us in season 7 after Jenna Dewan’s pregnancy and, after a time jump, John and Bailey’s already born baby.
The next episode of The Rookie will be released in Germany on May 1st on WOW. Hopefully then we will know more about the direction in which John and Bailey’s surprising desire to have children is developing.