

Gail Bean, who costars as Wanda, reveals that White Rob’s struggles with his crack addiction served as a stark reminder for her character.

But it also sets it up perfectly to show Franklin is in a completely different space right now and nothing can come before his family and his business.” Rob was someone Franklin had known his whole life. Rob was already telling people their business and he didn’t know how far Rob was willing to go. “He thought about what Veronique said about protecting her and their family and he just couldn’t risk Rob flipping on him. “Franklin couldn’t trust him anymore,” Idris explains. But he also didn’t evolve and his addiction and big mouth cost him his life.”ĭamson Idris, who stars as Franklin, agrees that White Rob was his own worst enemy and foreshadows more Season 5 tragedy. White Rob was such a non-threatening presence. Like if they do something that makes Franklin not trust them, he could shoot and kill them, too. “It also goes to show you that Rob’s death puts a target on their backs. “I read Episode 2 and I remember all of these characters basically asking, ‘Wow! Why did you do that?'” Kowalski shares. Kowalski adds that he took comfort in the fact that Peaches was horrified by White Rob’s murder at the hands of Franklin as were Leon, Louie and Jerome when they found out. There was something poetic about having White Rob die while looking at a comet.” I was so sad, but also thrilled about the way the writers wrote his death because of how it all played out. “One of the producers turned and looked at me and said, ‘Drug dealing is a scary business and so is show business.’ I knew all of this, but I still had conflicted feelings when I read the script. “I remember in Season 1 when Reed killed Alejandro,” Kowalski recalls to TVLine. Snowfall Season 5 Premiere Recap: Twisted Fates RevealedĪctor Taylor Kowalski, who has been costarring as White Rob since Snowfall Season 1, says even though he understands why his character had to die, the departure is heartbreaking. Snowfall's Damson Idris Explains Season 5 Franklin, Ponders Similarities Between Veronique and His Mom
