9‑1‑1’s Oliver Stark reveals when season 9 will start production. A lot has changed in the world of the first-responder drama since 9-1-1 season 9 was renewed in May. The biggest change, of course, is the death of Captain Bobby Nash. It marks the exit of original cast member Peter Krause, as well as the first time that a main character was killed off. The controversial storytelling decision hangs over the upcoming season, which will enter production soon.
In an interview with Principle Magazine, Stark was asked to share what he knows about the upcoming season. The actor, who plays Evan Buckley, revealed that the cast and crew are due to begin filming in one month. In the quote below, Stark also touches on how Bobby’s death will impact the 118 moving forward: We’ll start shooting season 9 in about a month. I have read nothing yet. It’s gonna be interesting in the sense that at the end of season 8, we lost Peter Krause’s character, [Bobby]. I think season 9 is gonna be about rebuilding and growing from that, seeing how it’s possible to grow from that, and restructuring of the 118, which is the firehouse in the show, and seeing how everybody can kinda come together and try and move forward.
Drama on TV shows tends to come from relationships, and if Ryan Guzman has his way, it’s with Eddie’s love life that we could get that in 9-1-1 Season 9 this fall. “You want him to be happy, but then it kind of takes away from the drama, so a little bit of messiness with the girlfriend and what not,” is his wish for his character, he told ET. In other words, more of what we’ve already seen from him.
Eddie is one of the two 9-1-1 characters — Oliver Stark‘s Buck is the other — who has not been lucky in love so far. First, there was the complicated relationship with his wife, Shannon (Devin Kelley), who then died. Then came the relationship with Ana (Gabrielle Walsh), which ended after he panicked about their future. Then he and Marisol (Edy Ganem), whom he’d met on a call, got together, and moved in together so quickly they were still finding out things about one another (like she was a nun-in-training). She moved out, then that relationship failed after she and his son Christopher (Gavin McHugh) caught him with the doppelgänger of his late wife Shannon.
A relationship wasn’t even on Eddie’s radar in Season 8, which saw him working on figuring things out and eventually repairing his relationship with his son (including briefly moving to Texas to be with him, then ultimately returning to Los Angeles by the end of the finale). When TV Insider spoke with Ryan Guzman after Season 8 Episode 6, which saw Eddie take the words of the returning Gavin Stenhouse‘s priest to heart about not punishing himself and finding some joy, he said his character wasn’t even thinking about romance at the time.
“There is not one relationship in his head. I believe that Eddie is just so focused on what he needs to be doing as a good man that before he does anything else with a good woman, he needs to solidify that,” he explained after his history of “self-sabotage” when it comes to relationships.
Guzman also shared with ET that his reaction to Bobby’s (Peter Krause) death was “shock, awe, disbelief,” and said he’d actually thought Eddie was going to be the one who died. For that call, it was, for him, “Here it comes, I know it’s coming. Wait, who?” He would also be all for the show bringing back Krause for more flashbacks. “I want him back,” he said. “Pete, come back, please. I miss you already.”
