After ten seasons, The Blacklist finally came to an end on NBC on Thursday, July 13, and it was a tear-jerker of a series finale. After the show closed out with an international manhunt, stars Harry Lennix and Hisham Tawfiq reflected on their many years as Harold Cooper and Dembe, respectively. The duo opened up about their time on the show and losing their longtime co-star Megan Boone as Liz Keen.
When Megan Boone was announced to be leaving The Blacklist, it was a question of how the series would say goodbye to her beloved profiler. The decision to kill off Liz in the Season 8 finale definitely changed the series for good, and it was hard to watch how everyone struggled with the aftermath. As part of Harold Cooper’s task force, she brought a lot to the team. Harry Lennix – who played the assistant director of the FBI Counterterrorism Division – tells TV Insider just how Liz’s death affected both him as an actor and his character:
