Chicago P.D. added a brand new member to the Intelligence Unit in Season 12 for the autumn 2024 TV schedule, following Tracy Spiridakos’ departure as Hailey Upton again within the spring. Toya Turner was already a well-recognized face on NBC for any One Chicago viewers who had tuned in to the fifth and last season of New Amsterdam, during which she performed touring nurse Gabrielle reverse Jocko Sims. Turner spoke with CinemaBlend about going from one NBC present to the opposite, and I can positively perceive why her new present appears “so scorching” compared to the medical drama.
Because the wait is at the moment on for One Chicago to return within the 2025 TV schedule with the winter premieres, I recalled what the New Amsterdam-turned-Chicago P.D. actress advised me along with the tremendous candy BTS tales about her new co-stars. As a fan of the medical drama again in its day, I requested what it was like for her to modify over to crime for P.D., and he or she shared:
It is positively completely different. I imply, my first episode, that they had me in all polyester, and I used to be working down stairs and down alleys and going into deserted warehouses. So bodily, it’s utterly completely different, and I have been challenged in ways in which I’ve by no means been challenged bodily earlier than in any function. And we do numerous on areas. Once I did New Amsterdam, I feel we solely left the hospital set perhaps as soon as. I bought an opportunity to do [that], however apart from that, it was simply me on this constructed set on New Amsterdam, in order that’s completely different too.
Toya Turner’s Officer Kiana Cook dinner debuted within the second episode of Season 12, which you’ll be able to revisit streaming now with a Peacock subscription. By pure happenstance, she was within the space when Ruzek was chasing down the criminals who had shot and killed Detective Martel. They teamed up, which finally gave her an in with the Intelligence Unit.
For Officer Cook dinner, it was an intense and harmful case with bullets flying. For Toya Turner… properly, it was numerous cardio whereas carrying polyester as an alternative of the cooler scrubs of New Amsterdam. After I admitted that I would puzzled how scorching it was filming for her and Patrick John Flueger after I watched Episode 2, she laughed and confirmed my suspicions, saying:
I do not know why a designer hasn’t made a brand new, breathable materials, nevertheless it was very, highly regarded. I had on lengthy sleeves. It was within the center, the peak of summer time in Chicago. It was so, so scorching. [laughs] However it labored, as a result of it helped with the warmth of the episode. The depth of all of it. So it was good.
Having been to Chicago within the warmth of the summer time, I used to be not shocked to be taught that polyester was not probably the most comfy materials for filming chase sequences on location within the Windy Metropolis! In fact, it wasn’t a cushty episode as Ruzek reeled from Martel’s dying whereas additionally chasing justice (with Burgess absent), in order Toya Turner stated, “it labored.”
Turner’s large Cook dinner-centric episode later within the fall was additionally bodily grueling, as she spent most of it doused in water on account of heavy rain being scripted into the case. It was sufficient to bond Cook dinner and Torres and one thing that the actress actually loved as her character went from a patrol cop to member of the Intelligence crew. The actress stated:
As quickly as they bought me out of that polyester, I used to be like, ‘Child, I will take the rain. I don’t even care. Give me the rain so long as I can get out of this shirt!’ [laughs] Though I personally assume Kiana appears actually good within the blues, personally. However sure, it is so much more durable. It is so much [more] enjoyable than writing parking tickets for certain.
Regardless of the future holds for Kiana Cook dinner, I feel it is protected to say that Toya Turner is on board for no matter choice retains her from having to put on the highly regarded polyester once more! Her character went on her first undercover op within the last two episodes of Chicago P.D.‘s fall season, and should want a little bit of follow. Then once more, if Gloria hadn’t been in a position to suss out the reality and make a connection to Torres, Cook dinner might need had a better time.
Followers nonetheless have weeks to attend earlier than the top of winter hiatus, however the promo for the winter premiere previews an intense second for Kiana Cook dinner:
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Chicago P.D. will return to NBC on Wednesday, January 8 in its regular 10 p.m. ET time slot, to choose up on Chief Reid revealing himself as an antagonist. As all the time, the community’s One Chicago Wednesdays open with Chicago Med at 8 p.m. ET adopted by Chicago Fireplace at 9 p.m. ET after which P.D. at 10 p.m. ET. The brand new yr may also ship One Chicago’s first three-part crossover occasion since 2019, so you should definitely tune in!