[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for The Rookie Season 7 Episode 7 “The Mickey.”]
We will breathe a sigh of aid: Nolan (Nathan Fillion) and Bailey (Jenna Dewan) at the moment are on the identical web page on The Rookie.
The couple had been on the outs after he realized that she gave an murderer a tip about her abusive ex-husband Jason (Steve Kazee), resulting in his loss of life. Bailey, in the meantime, met a lady operating a shelter, Diana (Virginia Kull), and talked to her about her wrestle to label what he put her by means of as abuse. And so after spending nights away from the home, Bailey returned residence and opened up about being in denial about her expertise. Diana reminded her that Nolan is her greatest ally to assist her face what occurred and heal. Turning to Malvado was a determined transfer for security, she explains. Nolan regrets making her really feel judged as a substitute of supported, and he assures her that if he might do it yet again, he’d present her that his worry was for her and the hazard she put herself in. He apologize for making her really feel alone and assures her she’s not. “You’ve cherished,” he tells her. Transferring ahead, they’ll repair this collectively.
Beneath, Dewan does a deep dive on the revelation for Bailey, what’s forward for her and Nolan now, and extra.
How onerous was it for Bailey to confess, largely to herself, that what she’s been doing is amassing methods to guard herself and it’s not working like she needed to? Would she have with out assembly Diana?
Jenna Dewan: No, I believe assembly Diana was a real catalyst for that recognition in herself. I believe Diana is a mirror for her, and I consider that Bailey has spent her complete life preventing towards desirous to seem like a sufferer, and also you see that it’s evident in her work, it’s evident in how she protected herself and relationships and by no means desirous to be weak. And it’s as a result of she is a real sufferer. And I believe that the popularity by means of Diana, that you’re a sufferer and accepting that you’re a sufferer, in the end is a catalyst for her to go deeper and to change into extra weak and heal lastly.
Whereas I perceive that there’s so many alternative colours to abuse and the way that may look, I believe it was necessary to specific that it may well look otherwise than what you anticipate home violence or any type of abuse to look. And that was eye-opening for me, Jenna, as an actress, simply studying the script, I believed, wow, how unbelievable. You don’t give it some thought in that manner. You will have these type of assumptions of how victimization and the way abuse ought to look, however it may be lots of completely different colours and it may be sort of sneaky and it may be hidden in a little bit covert. And I discovered that second simply me personally studying that and studying these traces, saying to myself, oh, that’s so true. What number of instances you suppose, oh, that particular person has all of it collectively. Look, they’re nice, however you don’t know what individuals are coping with, what they’re going by means of in their very own life. So I do suppose that being weak for Bailey is one other a part of her superhero capabilities, however she didn’t know that till assembly Diana.
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That final Bailey and Nolan scene — it’s so candy and it looks like they each wanted that after their time aside, proper?
Yeah. Sure, I do. I believe that that coming collectively and reconnecting scene was actually necessary as a result of I believe you need to be weak and it’s so onerous when every little thing feels prefer it’s on the road and admitting one thing that you simply’ve been burying deep down inside your complete life is so onerous to do. And if you lastly get that second and also you’re like, oh, I hope I’m secure sufficient to be seen on this manner, and you then notice you might be and also you’re caught and also you’re held in love, it’s probably the most therapeutic factor on the planet. So I actually love that scene as a result of I believed, wow, I’m so joyful for each of them that they really feel that security inside one another and may type of go hand in hand and type of see what life goes to point out them subsequent. But it surely’s like every little thing, it causes them to go a little bit bit deeper and with extra belief collectively.
But in addition in that dialog, he talks about what he needs he had executed to assist her, however the place Bailey was with the specter of Jason on the market on the time, would which have mattered?
Sure, I do suppose that realizing that Nolan would have helped if she had simply expressed — and I believe that that’s true 99 % of the time in life in relationships. We expect what we’re defending ourselves, however truly the folks we love are actually there to simply accept you and all of your emotions and all of your good and the dangerous about you. However you’d must be weak sufficient to specific that and lean on folks for assist. And so I do suppose, sure, I do suppose she would’ve made completely different decisions. I do really feel that he would’ve found out a manner to assist her. I believe that was an awakening for her, that I didn’t must undergo this alone.
What does fixing it collectively seem like for Bailey and Nolan? What’s subsequent for them?
Time heals like everybody else. And I believe studying to be extra trustworthy with one another, studying to simply accept assist from one another, and realizing that they are surely there for one another. And I believe the private taking accountability on either side of this, that was fascinating for me as a result of initially you learn these items and you’ve got your personal opinion of who you suppose is in the proper, however on the finish you notice, oh, all of us have a component in it all the time. We all the time all have a component in it. And the beauty of each of them is that they proceed all through the episodes coming as much as hold taking accountability for his or her aspect of issues, and that creates extra therapeutic. It creates them to grasp, wow, we’ve actually been by means of the fireplace and again and we nonetheless love one another, and there’s lots of belief in that. On the similar time, there’s all the time new issues for us to sort out and it’s by no means boring from Nolan and Bailey ever. And so there’s one thing about that pleasure and that unpredictability that actually works for each of them and as a pair.
They had been already a robust couple. Are they the strongest now due to what they went by means of, or are they simply sturdy another way?
Nicely, I believe you’re stronger. I believe after going by means of every little thing they’ve been by means of, it’s make it or break it, they usually’ve made it. And so I believe in the end you’re stronger for that. And I do suppose there’s a unique degree of vulnerability and belief that comes after this with a little bit of a therapeutic interval. It’s not in a single day, you don’t flip a swap, however I do know that they strategy it extra hand in hand and realizing, oh, we’re actually there for one another.
Nolan had spoken to Tim about realizing when it’s over. At any level although, did Bailey suppose that this may be the start of the tip of them or had she thought that he would repair it like she needed?
I believe she hoped he would repair it like she needed, and I believe on the finish of the day, she is aware of Nolan’s coronary heart and I believe she realizes that they each have a bit on this, a component on this. And I believe she hoped he would do the proper factor, however realizing he’s a very good particular person, I consider you assume that that can occur. However on the similar time, she is aware of that what she did is in direct odds to Nolan’s ethical compass and even his complete job. So I believe she was completely nervous.
How does she really feel although about Jason being useless? Is it pure aid or are there sophisticated feelings?
I do know. I might say there’s aid within the sense that the bodily risk of Jason is gone, and that’s somebody who has haunted her and been a torture and a torment in her life for years. So the bodily security feels completely different. Nevertheless, the psychological security shouldn’t be there in a single day. So I believe that there’s sophisticated emotions to that. I believe the way it went down is sophisticated for her to deal with, whether or not she is in the proper or within the flawed, or nonetheless you wish to take a look at it, it’s sophisticated how something like that goes down. And I believe she feels sophisticated, however on the similar time, lots of aid as a result of he was a horrible affect in her life, a horrible particular person and had lots of management over her. So there may be some freedom and aid blended with ethical complexity.
Talking of the vulnerability of her going ahead, will we see a unique aspect of Bailey simply on the whole, not even simply along with her relationship with Nolan, however simply approaching different elements of her life?
I do suppose there’s a softening to Bailey that has been taking place, however I believe occurs extra so. She’s all the time adventurous. She’s all the time desirous to dwell life on the sting. There’s all the time a way of, what else can I accomplish and do? I believe there’s an actual adrenaline junkie in her, and I don’t suppose she would do normalcy very properly, however I believe there’s a softening and an acceptance in her, and I believe there’s a stability she feels with Nolan in she’s by no means felt earlier than, and leaning into that a little bit bit this season.
What else is developing for Bailey?
Nicely, there’s all the time enjoyable, thrilling issues that occur each episode. It’s all the time a little bit little bit of, what occurs now, what’s Bailey getting herself into now? There’s lots of sophisticated tales developing the place I’m actually concerned in my EMT and type of attending to be on the job and on the sphere, so to talk, which I actually take pleasure in. Simply Jenna as an actress, I actually take pleasure in these days as a result of it’s enjoyable for me and attending to be with the precise firefighters that day play on our present and attending to do enjoyable motion and stuff like that. After which I might say there’s much more leaning into the soundness with Nolan and actually within the restore mode and likewise after such a starting of a season that was so destabilizing, there’s lots of stabilizing to come back.
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