[Warning: The article below contains major spoilers for 9-1-1 Season 8 Episode 15, “Lab Rats.”]
Angela Bassett acquired insider data a few main character loss of life coming to 9-1-1 within the procedural’s eighth season… and she or he thought it was her character, Athena Grant, who can be dying in “Lab Rats.”
As a substitute, as followers came upon on Thursday, it was Peter Krause’s Bobby Nash who succumbed to a viral an infection.
“[9-1-1 co-creator] Tim [Minear] did pull Peter first and let him know,” Bassett informed The Hollywood Reporter. “He gave me a name and was like, ‘OK, Angela, it is a massive change within the season. We gotta do one thing actually dramatic — and somebody’s going to die.’ After which there’s a pause, after all. And I stated, ‘Is it … Athena? Is it me?!’”
Then Bassett guessed the doomed character can be Aisha Hinds’ Hen Wilson and Kenneth Choi’s Chimney Han earlier than lastly realizing who it might be. “I feel lastly, after about three or 4 names, I used to be like, ‘What?!’ — as a result of it was inconceivable to me that it was Bobby,” she stated. “It was incredulous to me that it was Bobby, so it was simply very stunning. Typically, you’re simply struck dumb — and that’s a kind of moments as a result of their bond has been so fantastic and so robust these previous 4 or 5 years. I didn’t see that coming. None of us noticed that coming.”
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Every week or so later, Bassett and Krause reconvened on set. “You understand when your eyes simply lock and also you don’t know what to say? And also you simply bear hug one another, and you then simply shake your head?” she recalled. “And bless his coronary heart — he needed to consolation all of us. [Laughs] He actually needed to consolation all of us whereas he’s going by way of his personal processing within the second. However happily, every little thing’s [shot] so out of order that you could shoot what would be the finality [of that character], however you continue to have extra time collectively. In order that’s some measure of grace — a small measure.”
Minear informed TV Insider he thought-about different potential deaths however determined that it was Bobby’s time since his loss of life would have an effect on each different character’s story on the present.
“It made a specific amount of sense for the arc of his character and that he got here right here for redemption and that he got here right here with a loss of life want, actually,” the showrunner defined. “After which his complete story is about how he not has a loss of life want. He by no means feels utterly worthy of the happiness that he’s obtained, however when he makes that sacrifice, he doesn’t need to go, however he achieves the fruits of every little thing that has been driving that character for eight seasons.”
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