9-1-1 star Ryan Guzman says his character, Eddie, should study to loosen the reigns as his son, Christopher, navigates adolescence.
“Christopher, [actor] Gavin [McHugh], really, is extremely tall now and he has his personal teenage vernacular now,” Guzman, 37, solely instructed Us Weekly whereas discussing season 7 of the ABC collection. “So it’s unusual, now that I’ve come to know each character and artist, their evolution is in synchronicity. Watching him painting Christopher on this method now could be simply, like, ‘Wow, child, you’ve actually grown up.’”
Guzman and McHugh, 13, joined 9-1-1 initially of the present’s second as a single father and his son navigating the following chapter of their lives after Christopher’s mother, Shannon (Devin Kelley), left them. In her absence, Eddie realized to lean on members of the 118, like Buck (Oliver Stark), for assist as he raised his son, who has cerebral palsy. Season 7, nonetheless, sees Chris wanting independence from his dad, and Eddie is confronted with studying how you can father or mother a young person.
Within the first episode of the season, the twosome discover themselves at odds when Eddie discovers Christopher has been courting a number of women in his class without delay. Though he recruits Buck for recommendation, Guzman instructed Us that Eddie might want to give Christopher extra independence and house transferring ahead.
“I feel with Christopher, it’s going to be extra of an exploration in the direction of this new model of himself,” he defined. “After which for Eddie, it’s going to be permitting him to do this as a result of Eddie has at all times had a robust maintain on who Christopher is, what Christopher’s doing, what he can and might’t eat, all that stuff. It’s going to be a chance for Eddie to sit down again, and might he sit again is the true [question].”
As for the actors themselves, Guzman couldn’t reward McHugh, or his efficiency, sufficient. “I really feel like he’s been doing an unbelievable job this season,” Guzman instructed Us, noting that McHugh performs into the lighthearted pressure between the father-son duo “so effectively.”
Season 7 isn’t all about Christopher’s courting life. Eddie can be navigating his personal relationship together with his girlfriend, Marisol (Edy Ganem). After the couple bounce too rapidly into transferring in collectively — whereas Christopher is “away for a few days” in episode 4 — Eddie rapidly backtracks the provide.
The conclusion that the pair are transferring too quick is a big second of “progress” for Eddie, Guzmain famous, including that “Eddie wants to know who he’s coping with earlier than he invitations them into this very convoluted life.”
Placing his son first can be crucial. “I feel firstly is what it’s going to do for Christopher,” he continued. “He’s at all times acquired Christopher on the entrance finish of his thoughts. So I feel there was quite a lot of progress on the finish of this episode and a really hopeful Eddie once more.”
In additional methods than one, season 7 has introduced a lighter aspect to Eddie, which longtime viewers will know is a shakeup from years previous. However after serving in Afghanistan, coping with the loss of life of his estranged spouse, going through panic assaults and PTSD and surviving a virtually deadly gunshot wound, Guzman is able to let Eddie have some enjoyable.
“We’ve had all of the traumatic stuff, the drama, the previous seasons of him going by his conflict and dropping all of his associates and a lot heaviness,” he instructed Us. “And I feel what the conduit to truly unveiling this new lightheartedness was connecting together with his sense of neighborhood.”
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That neighborhood, in fact, is the 118 — particularly Buck and Captain Nash (Peter Krause), who Guzman calls Eddie’s “rocks.”
“Permitting [Eddie] to be weak in entrance of [Buck and Bobby] and share his story and getting a protected house has given me because the actor and Eddie because the character, the chance to simply be lighthearted and have a little bit bit extra enjoyable,” Guzman mentioned. “And I feel that’s his mindset now could be simply, like, how can we flip the frown the wrong way up?”
