Lucifer has been an international phenomenon for Netflix and the second half of Season 5 is finally headed fans’ way on Friday, May 28. One reason the Tom Ellis-fronted series has been such a hit is because of the fantastic cast around and including him, and one of those fan favorites is his brother “Amenadiel” as played by DB Woodside.
KSiteTV spoke with DB Woodside about a “family dinner” that kicks off Season 5B as well as what it was like to spend time in the series’ final days (while a sixth season won’t be coming our way for a while, Season 6 has already been filmed, with Woodside himself directing an episode.) But before we talk about that family dinner, we should probably discuss one of the biggest guests of Season 5B.
“God’s showing up,” Woodside said before praising the actor that was cast to play Lucifer and Amenadiel’s father.
“First of all, Dennis Haysbert is just one of my favorite human beings in the world, and it was such a pleasure to unite with him after playing bros in 24. So that was great. But God comes – Dad comes – and let’s just say, he really, really mixes things up with his boys and the series regulars,” he continued, before discussing why “Family Dinner” is an episode that will be talked about for a long time.
“In that episode, we have probably one of the longest scenes where you will see both Lucifer and Michael in a scene together. It took us two days to shoot that. We rehearsed it for a day and a half before we even shot it. It’s a really difficult scene to shoot, and I’ve got to give my man props, because I think Tom [Ellis] doing double duty, and going back and forth from playing Lucifer to Michael, Michael to Lucifer, for two days straight was phenomenal. He is just brilliant in that scene, and I can’t wait for everyone to see it,” he enthused.
At the time this interview was conducted, Lucifer was near wrapping on its final season, and in many cases – especially shooting a final scene with Tom Ellis – “that was hard.” DB Woodside was hit with a flood of memories, from shooting their first scenes on Hollywood Boulevard and talking about how they both love being dads to little girls, to nights in the Vancouver rain bonding over what it was like to be up there, away from family but creating a 
new family with fellow cast. And it paid off.
“So many people counted us out; they just didn’t really believe in the show,” Woodside recalled about the early days.
“They thought ‘these people are crazy for doing a show about Lucifer,’ and here we are six seasons later,” he continued. “It is because the fans believed in this show, they they love this show, they followed this show, they fought for this show, and the critics who loved it as well. Now we’re here, six seasons later, an as a veteran of of TV, I got to tell you, you it’s a privilege and an honor to be on a show that runs five, six seasons. That’s the goal, and and if you’re if you’re lucky and blessed enough to to get that ,you need to appreciate it. You need to be thankful for it. There are hundreds of television shows that don’t even make it out of the pilot stage. There are hundreds of television shows that get cancelled every single year and don’t get resurrected. We were one of the fortunate few. We are all so thankful for the fans and the critics that that stuck by this little show that could.”
Lucifer Season 5B drops on Netflix late tonight.
