Exclusive Interview
‘Ginny & Georgia’ Star Raymond Ablack Pleads His Case For Joe & Georgia’s Endgame
[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for Ginny & Georgia Season 3.]
Joe and Georgia hive, we’re back in the game. And if you ask Raymond Ablack, Joe’s in it to win Georgia’s heart.
For three seasons, Ablack has played one of Wellsbury’s most dependable characters on Netflix’s Ginny & Georgia. Joe Singh’s Blue Farm Café is Wellsbury’s central meeting place, and everyone enjoys seeing the town’s resident “babygirl” (a term Ginny gave Joe in Season 3) behind the counter.
From the moment Georgia Miller (Brianne Howey) stepped back into Joe’s life, he’s never been the same. Joe has yearned from afar, with Georgia always just slightly out of reach. But that changed in Season 3. As Georgia’s life reached a low point after she was arrested and put on trial for Tom Fuller’s murder, her marriage fell apart, and her kids were taken from her, she had to reckon with her feelings about it all, including the ones she has for Joe.
In Episode 7, Joe and Georgia finally went there. They faced their long-simmering feelings head-on, which culminated in a passionate hookup. Ablack told Swooon that this Joe and Georgia turning point was a “real finally moment” for him.
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When Georgia was let off the hook, thanks to Ginny (Antonia Gentry) and Austin (Diesel La Torraca) framing Gil (Aaron Ashmore) for Tom’s death, it seemed like the show was headed for the full Joe and Georgia romance that fans have been rallying for since the first season. Given the current chaos in her life, Georgia asked Joe to put their relationship on hold for now so she could focus on her kids.
Ablack doesn’t think Joe has any bitterness over Georgia’s decision. For Joe, there’s just a “relief for him that she’s finally admitted the thing that he feels in his guts is true. I think you like me, and I like you, and I think you love me, and I love you.”
That’s enough of a victory for Joe right now. “He understands she just came off a murder trial. She’s just getting divorced after a couple of weeks. She’s got a lot going on, and her kids need their mom right now without confusion,” he noted.
Georgia also didn’t hesitate to come clean with Joe. She wanted a clean slate, so she openly admitted to killing Tom and her ex-husbands.
And it didn’t change a thing for Joe. He loved her all the same. “I think he believes that all of her behaviors, all of her actions, have been in for survival and in service of her kids. I don’t think he has judgment on her actions,” Ablack explained.
So, what is it that draws Joe to Georgia in the first place? It’s more than nostalgia after their fleeting meet-cute when they were kids. “She’s very smart. She’s beautiful, of course. She’s creative. She’s clever. She’s cunning,” Ablack went on, before adding that he thinks “Joe has some of that.”
He continued, “I think he sees elements of her that she thinks are hidden from everyone, and he just doesn’t comment on them out loud, but he kind of clocks it.”
The third season ended with a massive twist: Georgia’s pregnant. The baby could be Joe’s or Paul’s (Scott Porter). “I want it to be me,” Ablack stressed.
The show has been renewed for Season 4, but the actor does not know who the father of Georgia’s baby is at the moment. However, he knows Joe will be a good father, whether it’s on the sooner side or later down the road.
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“I think he’s great with kids,” Ablack said about his character. “I think he’s patient and kind and understanding, and all of the things you want in a good father. He’s going to stay there, he’s going to stick with you, whether you do the right or wrong or you mess up, or you bother him or annoy him, and all the things that kids do.”
If the baby’s father turns out to be Paul, Ablack knows Joe will stand by Georgia. “I don’t think there’s anything that could impede Joe from his love for Georgia, but that would be just another block,” he said.
The actor is fully Team Joe when it comes to who should win Georgia’s heart in the end. In looking at Georgia’s failed relationships with Zion (Nathan Mitchell), Gil, and Paul, Ablack told Swooon that, in his eyes, Georgia would be “most fulfilled” with Joe. “I just feel that he can serve her in that way,” he added.
With Season 4 on the horizon, Ginny & Georgia fans can start thinking about what they want to see from their favorite Wellsbury citizens. Ablack’s brain has been churning with ideas.
“I think Joe seems so sweet, he seems so patient and generous and whatever, all these lovely things, but I think he’s a bit of a fox himself,” Ablack admitted. “He doesn’t use violence, although this year, he used a little violence. I don’t think that’s natural to him, but I think he’s capable of doing some malicious things. I think if anyone can bring that out of him, it would be Georgia. So I would love to see him get his hands dirty or implicated in some the things that she gets caught up in.”
Is Joe about to enter his bad boy era? “I think he has that, and I think he can seem like the last possible person who would ever do anything,” Ablack quipped.
Ginny & Georgia, Season 3, Streaming Now, Netflix
