Spoilers forward for Episode 7 of Chicago Fireplace Season 13, known as “Untouchable.”
Imagine it or not, Chicago Fireplace‘s run within the 2024 TV schedule is sort of over with the Season 13 fall finale set to air on November 20. There’s loads of drama to fill that fall finale, with storylines starting from Severide and Pascal becoming a member of forces to the continued saga of the star-crossed Violet and Carver. Herrmann and Mouch are additionally set for his or her officer exams. After I just lately spoke with David Eigenberg about Herrmann chasing that promotion inside the CFD, he shared what had by no means occurred to him… or Herrmann.
As followers will bear in mind from the Season 12 finale (which is accessible streaming with a Peacock subscription now), Boden’s emotional goodbye to Firehouse 51 concerned naming Herrmann as his chosen successor as Chief. Season 13 threw a wrench in that by including Dermot Mulroney as Chief Pascal, who seemingly has no plan of going wherever now that he is settled into 51. In the meantime, Herrmann continues to be set to take the captain’s examination as step one towards getting that Chief gig.
So, throughout CinemaBlend’s interview with David Eigenberg at NBC’s One Chicago press junket, I requested if it ever would have occurred to Herrmann to go on this path towards management if Boden hadn’t recommended it. The longtime Chicago Fireplace actor laughed and responded:
No. While you get to know the true world of firefighters, there are firefighters after which there are officers. As soon as you are a lieutenant, you are a firefighter however you are not known as a firefighter anymore. ‘Are you a firefighter or an officer?’ And Herrmann would go, ‘I am a firefighter.’ And he was very content material with that. Then they introduced in a brand new factor, and I believe it has been good… I actually do not know what is going on to occur, and I do not know in the event that they know what is going on to occur.
It appears that evidently no choices have been made about if Herrmann will turn out to be the brand new Chief of 51 within the foreseeable future, however there’s nonetheless quite a lot of Season 13 left because the 2025 TV schedule approaches. After getting his ideas on whether or not Herrmann ever would have considered pursuing this promotion, I needed to know: would it not ever have occurred to David Eigenberg as an actor that there may very well be a brand new Chief when Eamonn Walker was such a pivotal a part of the forged for thus lengthy? The actor defined, with a touching story about his real-life friendship with Walker:
No, I did not. Eamonn is an expensive [friend]. He really has been visiting me, and he simply went out of city to go see his son. However I am within the basement, and he is been staying proper over there. I am very near Eamonn, and I really like him dearly. I’ve sat within the desk just a few instances, in Boden’s desk… And I actually do not know what they will do. Dermot has been an exquisite addition to the forged and to the present. He is an lovely, loving man, and he is a really fascinating actor, so they will play it out the way it goes.
Whereas Eigenberg solely had good issues to say about Dermot Mulroney, not each firefighter in 51 has warmed as much as Pascal as the brand new Chief. Herrmann accepted Pascal fairly shortly, although, regardless of the brand new character taking the desk that Boden had supposed to go to him. So, how has Eigenberg – who has appeared in all 13 seasons of Chicago Fireplace thus far – approached Herrmann’s dynamic with Pascal this yr? He shared:
I did not get any notes on it, on precisely the best way to play it, as a result of in some methods dramatically, you need to amp it up a bit bit as a result of it is tv. However the actuality is, there’s some competitors amongst actual firefighters for positions. However there’s additionally what I’d prefer to name a humanhood, together with ladies and men, in the direction of one another. He got here in [and] we had a few feedback of actors going like, ‘[Pascal] has bought some jerky antics about him,’ however one of many actors additionally was like, ‘He is doing this factor to us, however are we allowed to love him? As a result of I do like him!’
I might say that is a reasonably good praise to Dermot Mulroney, if he might make his character so likable regardless of odds being stacked in opposition to Pascal getting a heat welcome! Eigenberg went on to say that he appears “at it as life’s going to unfold as it should unfold.”
Filming additionally hadn’t concluded for the yr but by the point of the One Chicago press junket, and the actor shared what he needed so as to add to what he was taking pictures subsequent… if Chicago Fireplace was the sort of present with improvisation, anyway. Eigenberg stated:
I used to be simply going over some stuff for tomorrow, and I used to be going to place a line in that they in all probability will not let me say. As a result of I’ve a scene with him, and [I’d be] going, ‘Hey, do not begin that with me!’ Nevertheless it was not written that manner, so I do not know in the event that they’re gonna [let me]. [laughs] They very not often allow us to say one thing that is not scripted, however I need to lean into a bit bit extra antagonism.
Essentially the most fast concern for followers is likely to be no matter goes to go down within the fall finale. Chicago Fireplace has a historical past of main developments and cliffhangers in finales, and the promo means that we should always in all probability buckle up for a experience on Wednesday night time. Have a look:
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The autumn finale of Chicago Fireplace Season 13, known as “Quicksand,” will air on Wednesday, November 20 at 9 p.m. ET, between the autumn finale of Chicago Med within the wake of the large twist for Archer at 8 p.m. ET and fall finale of Chicago P.D. following Prepare dinner’s first undercover gig at 10 p.m. ET, all on NBC. If you are going to need to revisit some older episodes over winter hiatus, you’ll find all three sequence streaming on Peacock now.