Joshua Jackson Says Working with Angela Bassett Was on His Bucket Record (Unique)

For Joshua Jackson, getting the chance to work alongside Angela Bassett was a dream come true!

Jackson, 46, and Bassett, 66, are at the moment starring on Physician Odyssey and 9-1-1, respectively. And on Thursday, March 20, the 2 Ryan Murphy-created exhibits can be having a giant tv crossover occasion on the medical collection.

Meaning Jackson was capable of cross off working with the honorary Oscar winner from his profession bucket listing. “To have any individual [on the show] of the caliber of Angela Bassett — and he or she’s been on my private actor bucket listing for a lot of, a few years. That is thrilling,” he tells PEOPLE solely.

“She’s marvelous in each manner that an individual and grasp could be marvelous. She is nice, epitomized and he or she is simply stylish and good and humorous and brassy {and professional} and simply great,” he continues. “So, it’s nice having a presence like that on set. It is a ton of enjoyable working with any individual like that. I had a beautiful time. She’s only a pleasure to be round.”

Within the episode titled “On line casino Week,” it is On line casino Week on The Odyssey — and Bassett’s 9-1-1 character Athena Grant comes aboard. Whereas on the cruise ship, Athena “spots two suspicious passengers eyeing the vault” and subsequently “groups up with Max (Jackson) to counter their plans in a high-stakes gamble,” per an episode synopsis.

Teasing extra about engaged on the upcoming episode, the Dawson’s Creek alum says that “it was good to get again extra into kind of the sparkly, fast-paced dialogue model of The Odyssey.”

“It is plenty of tuxedo time on this episode, however I actually loved getting again in and having a chance to bat the ball round with Angela,” he continues, including, “We enable Angela Bassett to lean into one other aspect of her that you do not  get to see on 9-1-1.”

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9-1-1 airs Thursdays at 8 p.m. ET adopted by Physician Odyssey at 9 p.m. ET on ABC.