Since 2012, Michael Brandt and Derek Haas’ firefighter procedural, Chicago Fireplace, has confirmed that primetime tv is not a cultural darling of the previous. As a part of the One Chicago franchise, the collection showcases the lives of the courageous first responders of the Chicago Fireplace Division’s Firehouse 51. Many faces have come and gone over the course of 13 seasons, Eamonn Walker as Wallace Boden and Yuriy Sardarov as Brian “Otis” Zvoncek being two heartbreaking departures for the hit NBC procedural.
Walker left as a collection common, often popping in to reprise his beloved function as Chief Boden, whose footwear have been crammed by Dermott Mulroney’s Chief Dom Pascal. In distinction, Sardarov was written out of the present completely, his character dying in the course of the surprising Season 8 premiere after preventing wounds from the Season 7 finale’s mattress manufacturing unit fireplace plotline. “Thanks for the best 7 years of my life… #ChicagoFireForever,” Sardarov captioned a Sept. 26, 2019, Instagram submit that includes a poem about his character, Otis.
Throughout a dialog with MovieWeb about his work within the indie sci-fi comedy Daddy, Yuriy Sardarov was candid about his determination to depart the present and studying of Otis’ tragic destiny.
“I might recognized Derek and Michael earlier than this, earlier than Chicago Fireplace, and so they really provided me the function. So seven seasons in, I used to be like, ‘You already know, Derek, I feel, I feel I am completed. I feel I might like to maneuver on to one thing new.’ And we had a discuss it, after which — I did not anticipate to be killed, that is for positive! … [Derek] known as me and was like, ‘That is what is going on to occur.’ And I used to be like, ‘Oh, man, that is brutal.’ After which after I learn it, I used to be like, ‘That is a great dying. It is a heroic dying.”
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Through the interview, Sardarov bought emotional over his 2019 departure from Chicago Fireplace. “It hits you in ways in which you do not anticipate,” he stated. “You develop to like all of those individuals.”
His connection to his former castmates seemingly goes past a “work besties” relationship. “[Joe] Miñoso is, I imply, he is actually my brother,” Sardarov stated. Moreover, a bonding expertise in the course of the COVID-19 pandemic introduced him even nearer to his Chicago Fireplace fam.
“I stay the place I stay in L.A. as a result of Monica Raymund, who performed Dawson, allow us to keep at her home throughout COVID. We fell in love with the neighborhood. We’re all linked eternally to at least one one other. The toughest half has been not seeing my buddies daily; I am getting emotional simply serious about it. I really like them a lot, and I am so completely satisfied that the present is constant on. I simply miss them.”
You’ll be able to catch Chicago Fireplace Season 13, Episode 18, on Wednesday, April 16, 2025, at 9:00 p.m. ET on NBC. Episodes stream the subsequent day on Peacock by way of the hyperlink beneath:
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