9-1-1 followers have feverishly shipped Buck and Eddie all through the present’s tenure, and so they’re in good firm with the actors themselves.
“I’m open to it. You already know, there’s clearly stuff there and there’s a chemistry between us,” Oliver Stark, who performs Evan “Buck” Buckley on the ABC drama, stated through the Friday, April 19, episode of the Zach Sang Present. “Yeah, if it goes there then I believe it might be [something I would do].”
Stark’s Buck has been a firefighting staple since season 1 of 9-1-1. Eddie Diaz (performed by Ryan Guzman) joined the Station 118 crew the next season, rapidly placing up a friendship with Buck. Whereas their bond has at all times been platonic up to now, many followers sense a deeper chemistry.
Buck not too long ago got here out throughout season 7 after having his first same-sex kiss with LAFD helicopter pilot Tommy (Lou Ferrigno Jr.). Whereas Buck and Tommy’s romance is presently enjoying out on 9-1-1, Stark, 32, was requested on Friday about his hopes for a possible future Buck-Eddie relationship.
“It really works two methods, proper? I positively see that as a possible story,” Stark stated. “I don’t know what’s going to occur with Eddie’s character. However then I additionally assume you need to tread fastidiously as a result of I don’t need to inform this story the place [a] man comes out and now all his male mates are like ‘Aw, so what you bought a crush on me?’ Like, I need to watch out of telling that story.”
Regardless of treading fastidiously, Stark continues to be leaving the door open for Buck and Eddie to get collectively.
“I get requested, ‘Will it occur?’ [all the time], not, ‘Do I need it to occur?’” he stated. “However when folks ask me, ‘Is it going to occur?’ I’m at all times like, ‘I don’t know. I don’t write the present.’ However so far as ‘Do I need it to?’ I additionally don’t know. Actually, I’m open to it if that’s what [showrunner] Tim [Minear] decides [is] probably the most sincere method to proceed telling the story.”
Guzman, for his half, not too long ago instructed Us Weekly that Buck’s popping out journey has made his bond with Eddie “stronger than ever.”
“I believe the last word aim was to indicate that the connection between Buck and Eddie will stay,” Guzman, 37, instructed Us earlier this month. “As a result of now we’ve unveiled this new susceptible facet of Buck, and final season we acquired to unveil this new facet, susceptible facet of Eddie. So the connection is simply that rather more muy sympatico.”
9-1-1 airs on ABC Thursdays at 8 p.m. ET.