As much 9-1-1 Fans, Kenneth Choi, cried while looking at the episode on Thursday.
“I was soaring,” says the actor, who plays the role of Chimney on the drama Abc First responder, says Weekly entertainment A few hours before viewers would see the captain of the late Bobby Nash (Peter Krause) sacrificed so that the fireplace can receive the only dose of existing healing for a mutated version of the CCHF, or hemorrhagic fever of Crimea-Congo.
“I mean, I filmed it and I was always sobbing uncontrollable with my friend for three or four minutes”, continues Choi, “to the point where I started to laugh at myself, because it was uncontrollable by sobbing. I laughed at myself saying:” I don’t know what’s going on! I know it’s not real! Why do I act like this? But it was devastating for me. “”
Choi retains (or at least try to hold back) tears even answering this question, which he continues to do throughout the exclusive interview with EW, which covers how 9-1-1 The showrunner Tim Minear announced the news of the distribution, which Krause thinks of being killed and the next step for the other members of 118.
Entertainment Weekly: It may not be a real death, but tears make sense. You cry an end.
Kenneth Choi: What is strange is that I actually dragged with Peter. And I will work with him again, we actually have this project that we do. So I say to myself: “I don’t understand that.” But Gavin (Stenhouse) – Who is a good friend and plays the extra -chaud priest of our show – he said: “You cry the loss of eight years of fireplace. You cry because the fireplace loses Bobby”, and I really think that was what it was.
Because I just saw Peter today. We will see each other every day, we are thick like thieves. But I will not be with Bobby, and I did not know that it would affect me so much. I have been treated with this for a few weeks and it is surreal.
What was your conversation with Tim Minear when he told you he killed Bobby?
As soon as he said the words, I just waited and waited, because Tim has a very ryed sense of humor, and I just expected that he said “I’m just with you, I am kidding”, and these words never came. There was this long period of silence and I said, “Are you serious?” And he said, “I’m serious, yes.”
And then I just went to these stages of sorrow. Denial, mainly: It makes no sense. Why would you do that? You kill our paternal figure in a way…. and he explained in a creative way why he thought it was the right choice, and I fought it on it. And I continued to fight it on it. I fought it until we did funeral stuff, because I thought, Maybe they will remove it. Maybe they will change their minds. Maybe they will reverse the course. But … yeah.
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And how does the chimney treat Bobby’s death?
(More tears, then laughs) I still can’t believe it. I make fun of myself, really. I don’t know why it’s so hard …. the fireplace is devastated. It is not only the loss of his captain. It is not only the loss of a colleague. It is not only the loss of a friend. He took the burden of incredible guilt because he knows that Bobby sacrificed himself to give the chimney a dose of the vaccine.
The chimney is therefore completely in shock, and I think it will manifest itself in many ways. I think most people, when they feel sadness, it does not register as sadness. Sometimes it can be angry. Often, when people are angry with each other, they are really disappointed with each other and that comes out as anger. So I think the fireplace …. guy is so difficult to keep me together. (break) He will feel a multitude of emotions, and he and the rest of the 118 will shirk this event for a while.
What do your conversations look like with Peter in all of this?
It is the most graceful human I know, the most graceful actor I know. So he supports everything. Peter is great, he makes things easier. He says, “I understand. I understand it in a creative way.” The way he says it … it is even the dialogue where he says that Bobby is in time borrowed. He came to Los Angeles on a mission, then he was going to close the book on himself, and he had a dinner with Athena Grant and this kind of changed … Oh my God, I can’t believe …. (Laugh in tears) I’m really sorry …
I don’t think Peter imagined this end for the moment. But I think that, as he was presented to him, he understood in a creative way what she could do for everyone. But that also followed his scenario: he is captain of a very united family of firefighters. He is the paternal figure, and the work of each firefighter is to save lives and sacrifice – and he gave the ultimate sacrifice. As he says in the episode, he did what he was supposed to do. It’s his work. He had to watch his team and his family … (more tears) I can’t believe that! (laughter) Y
You must understand, so I sort of made my peace with Peter. I spoke with him personally and I got my closure. I said to him: “This is what you have mean for me in the past eight years, playing with you and looking at you …” He taught me the lessons every day: how to be a leader, how to be a big actor, how to be a graceful actor on the set. And then we filmed all these mourning scenes, so I’m just a little shocked that it always suits me!
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Mourning is not a linear experience, for you or your character. How will the 118 work without its captain?
The 118 is now fractured. It’s burst. You cut the head of the snake, and the rest of us did not know what to do. We are going to go to our work and do them conscientiously, but we will obviously have this weight on us every time we go out, each time we enter the fire station. Basically, every moment will always be with us, and the loss will be with us.
It will be very convincing to see how each character manages this loss – how they manage their sorrow, anger, sadness and frustration. And I think it’s going to be much more difficult for the fireplace than for me, because I can see Peter.
But for Chimney, it will be difficult, certainly. He has gone through a lot of difficult things in his life, but I think that will prevail them all. It has been at the door of death perhaps 1,000 times, but emotional and mental scars are sometimes worse than physical, so the burden for the 118 will be difficult.
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