Fans Are Worried About The Disappearance Of This Black-Ish Character

Even after seven seasons, black-ish is still must-see viewing every week. Its stellar performances are a big part of the show’s appeal, as is its ability to combine laugh-out-loud humor with thought-provoking issues surrounding race in America. As with any family show, it’s also heartwarming to see how the children have grown over the years. The oldest kid characters, Junior and Zoey (Marcus Scribner and Yara Shahidi) are young adults now (with Shahidi starring in the show’s spinoff, grown-ish), and the middle Johnson children, twins Jack and Diane (Miles Brown and Marsai Martin), are in their teens. 

Filming of the new season was delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but black-ish finally came back in October of last year. As the new episodes aired, fans started to worry that one character – Martin’s Diane – was noticeably absent. Distractify posted some representative tweets from viewers, such as “Ummmmm…where’s Diane?” and “Yo Diane ain’t been [in] the last two episodes of Blackish.” 

Could it be that Marsai Martin had left the show for other projects? Or had the writers run out of ideas to highlight Dre and Bow’s middle children? As it turns out, neither is true. 

Marsai Martin is still a black-ish cast member – and much more

You could hear a collective sigh of relief when Diane reappeared on a recent episode of black-ish. Titled “High Water Mark,” the show’s primary plotline follows Dre’s reaction to catching oldest son Junior with a joint (via ABC). Diane and Jack have a subplot in which they help the seniors at their high school pull a class prank involving spray paint and the football field. At the moment, there’s no indication that the twins will be featured less often in future episodes.

Off the set, Marsai Martin is close to her castmates. On her Instagram feed, she calls Scribner, Brown, and Shahidi “big brother,” “bruh,” and “sis,” and cites her TV parents, Anthony Anderson and Tracee Ellis Ross, as “my favorite people.”

So it looks like Marsai Martin is still very much active in the show – but if she doesn’t appear as often, it will be with good reason. Martin became the youngest-ever executive producer in the business at 16; her company, Genius Productions, is coming out with its first film. As she told PopSugar, her other mission is to help other Black girls embrace their beauty. “We can do anything,” she said in the interview. “We can change our style, our skin is beautiful and comes in all different shades. Our inspirations, music, and culture are amazing. There’s just something cool about being Black. We’re dope, and people should see that more.”

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