[Warning: The below contains MAJOR for the 9-1-1: Lone Star series finale “Homecoming.”]
9-1-1: Lone Star brings Owen (Rob Lowe) full circle within the collection finale — however not with out leaving audiences to marvel if he may need died attempting to close off a nuclear reactor!
The asteroid was only the start, and it falls on the 126 to close down a nuclear reactor with a meltdown imminent. Everyone seems to be injured because of the cooling tank rupturing, however no another than Owen, who nonetheless manages to avoid wasting the day. A five-month time soar reveals that he survives — and does transfer to New York to take the chief job.
Beneath, Lowe displays on Owen’s journey, shares if he’d reprise his position sooner or later, and extra. (Plus, learn our deep dive into the finale and what would’ve occurred subsequent with co-showrunner Rashad Raisani right here.)
It is a good full circle story for Owen, bringing him again to New York, and there was that try and make us suppose that he may’ve died. Speak about having that be his ending and finale story.
Rob Lowe: Effectively, one of many nice issues storytelling smart about this world is sadly for actual first responders, the fact of their lives are that at any given second, believably and realistically, one thing may occur to them. So we all the time have that at our storytelling fingertips, and all of us type of collectively felt that that was a button we must always push within the finale, however not totally. It’s unhappy sufficient to mourn a present going out. It’s nonetheless in its prime. Let’s not additionally mourn the lack of characters that folks love.
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However Owen was able to die — he was severely injured when he went to push that button.
These folks go to work every single day figuring out that this could possibly be the day that they don’t come house. So it’s all the time been one of many nice honors of taking part in this character. And likewise one of many nice — discuss an excellent factor to have in your hip pocket as an actor for subtext. There’s lots of roles on the market the place you’ve bought to fabricate all of those superb subtextual tortures and intrigues and emotional turmoil inside you. That is half and parcel for the job. This could possibly be your final day together with your family members and to have that baked into the character, all these characters, every single day was one of many nice issues about taking part in the character.
Speak about filming the finale, particularly the scenes on the reactor since you had been separated from everybody else.
Yeah, I feel one of many issues that Tim Minear and Rashad [Raisani] did so effectively is that they had been sincere to who Owen is. And Owen has all the time been sort of a person on his island. He was the one survivor in his firehouse in 9/11. He’s a widower. He’s liable for folks and he’s a household man. However on the finish of the day, Owen is all the time sort of alone. And I feel that that was good that performed out actually even within the finale.
Talking of that: He discovered his skilled life. Why couldn’t he ever determine his private life?
I do know. Once more, that’s additionally quite common to that job. It’s an intense job. It’s very exhausting to be a major associate to folks in that job. After which Owen had lots to reconcile with and he by no means was in a position to do it. I used to be all the time hopeful he would do it. Owen had such superb girls in his life, however simply virtually they might find yourself getting their very own TV collection after they’d their time within the highlight with Owen. It’s sort of hilarious.
I actually loved watching Owen and T.Ok.’s (Ronen Rubinstein) relationship evolve through the years. What did you get pleasure from most about it?
I sort of loved it dovetailing what I’ve seen elevating my very own sons, which goes from having to be a hands-on father in type of youngster, adolescent, younger man option to being friends and companions and taking it to that subsequent lifelong stage. T.Ok. and Owen at the moment are friends on the job, and once we met them, T.Ok. couldn’t maintain the job. I like seeing that sort of progress.
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For whom is it going to be more durable to be in numerous states?
Oh, wow. I do know. I feel it’s going to be equally exhausting. T.Ok. and Owen are extremely bonded. They’re deeply, deeply linked. And now that T.Ok. has his family, I feel that provides Owen consolation that it’s time for him to seek out out what his subsequent chapter is. Owen accomplished his mission. He rebuilt the 126. He created a household there. He helped T.Ok. rebuild himself and there’s a brand new household there. However now it’s time for Owen to actually stroll off — not into the sundown however the dawn, he headed east — and discover out his subsequent chapter.
We bought nice stuff with Owen and Judd (Jim Parrack). From the place these two began to see the place they ended up was so good.
I all the time liked the Owen-Judd relationship and Jim Parrack is simply top-of-the-line actors. He’s up there with anyone I’ve ever labored with and it was an honor to behave with him each week. And I really like that he was given such actual property on this final season. He actually deserves it. I all the time liked seeing actual, mature two guys in capital letters having their relationship. It was considered one of my favourite themes of the present.
What are you going to overlook about Owen and the present?
The primary factor I’m going to overlook is pulling as much as that set every single day and marveling on the scope and the size and the spectacle of what we would normally do earlier than lunch — different exhibits wouldn’t be capable of do in weeks. I imply, it appeared like a film each single day. And I don’t know that we are going to see the likes of this present on community tv anytime quickly in our new financial system. And it was actually enjoyable to be part of it and tremendous proud that we had been in a position to make the present look so huge and be so huge, week in and week out. I’m actually going to overlook that.
And I’m going to overlook all of the collaborators we had, not simply within the superb forged we’ve got, however the writers and the consequences folks, the crew, the digicam division, the sound division. They had been one of the best of one of the best. And I feel that’s why the present goes out on the high of its sport as a result of this was the A staff. Lone Star was A+, A caliber community tv status at its best.
Might we see you once more as Owen? I imply, there’s 9-1-1. There’s this doable spinoff coming…
I imply, I by no means say by no means. I by no means say by no means. And I might be open to something so long as it isn’t attempting to be a less expensive, on low finances knockoff of what we labored so exhausting to ascertain. I feel we go away a legacy, to not put too high-quality some extent on it, on storytelling, huge spectacle, huge forged, nice actors, stars, and if there’s an urge for food for that that also exists. I’m down.
Did you’re taking something from set?
I did. I did. I took my turnouts, I took my firefighting outfit, and hopefully, I received’t want it. However dwelling in Southern California as we now know, it’s good to have that round. I took my piece of the rubble that I used to be gifted on the primary day of taking pictures. I used to be gifted from the fireplace division in New York with a chunk of a metal beam from 9/11, the World Commerce Heart. And it was on Owen’s desk for years. And we did a storyline truly the place he was lastly in a position to sort of put that behind him and he packed it up delicately and put it away to maintain it perpetually, however not have it in entrance of him on his desk. And so I stored that, that very actual, very important prop.
Is there something you by no means bought to do on Lone Star as Owen or filming smart that you just want you’d gotten the prospect to?
Effectively, I used to be all the time arguing for extra scenes on horseback, and I did get one little fast, fast one this 12 months. I liked when Lone Star leaned into the western. If it had been my druthers, I might’ve executed that on a regular basis.
I’ll say I feel the present had much more life in it. However by way of storytelling, we sort of emptied the chamber. I imply, there are positively extra tales to be advised, however I really feel that we had been in a position to our favourite tales, for positive. I imply, there was one the place we had been going to have Owen coming to Los Angeles and interacting with Angela [Bassett] and the group on the mothership. We had a complete factor for that that by no means got here to fruition that will’ve been actually enjoyable and actually thrilling.
I imply, you continue to can do this. You possibly can all the time go over to 9-1-1.
They know the place to seek out me, that’s for positive.
Thanks once more for doing this in the present day. You had been so good all 5 seasons, it’s such an excellent present, and I do want there was going to be extra.
Thanks. Which means lots to me. 5 seasons of one thing that works. it’s very uncommon. It doesn’t come round on a regular basis. And I find yourself on the finish of the day feeling grateful that I had the chance to work with such superb folks and that folks preferred it as a lot as they did.
9-1-1: Lone Star, Streaming Now, Hulu