[Warning: The article below contains major spoilers for 9-1-1 Season 8 Episode 15, “Lab Rats.”]
Angela Bassett acquired insider data a couple of main character dying coming to 9-1-1 within the procedural’s eighth season… and she or he thought it was her character, Athena Grant, who could be dying in “Lab Rats.”
As an alternative, as followers discovered 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 instructed The Hollywood Reporter. “He gave me a name and was like, ‘OK, Angela, it is a large change within the season. We gotta do one thing actually dramatic — and somebody’s going to die.’ After which there’s a pause, in fact. And I stated, ‘Is it … Athena? Is it me?!’”
Then Bassett guessed the doomed character could be Aisha Hinds’ Hen Wilson and Kenneth Choi’s Chimney Han earlier than lastly realizing who it will be. “I believe 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 great 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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Per week or so later, Bassett and Krause reconvened on set. “ 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 really needed to consolation all of us whereas he’s going by way of his personal processing within the second. However happily, the whole lot’s [shot] so out of order you can 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 instructed TV Insider he thought-about different doable deaths however determined that it was Bobby’s time since his dying would have an effect on each different character’s story on the present.
“It made a certain quantity 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 dying want, actually,” the showrunner defined. “After which his entire story is about how he now not has a dying want. He by no means feels fully worthy of the happiness that he’s obtained, however when he makes that sacrifice, he doesn’t need to go, however he achieves the end result of the whole lot that has been driving that character for eight seasons.”
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