Things got Buck wild on9-1-1this week.
“I felt very vulnerable heading into it.
I had to just trust,” Stark tells EW.
Oliver Stark on ‘9-1-1’.FOX
“But I think we’re all super proud of it, and Oliver is phenomenal in it.
Honestly, everybody is.
Everybody just really showed up to play.
Buck (Oliver Stark) visited by Christopher (Gavin McHugh) on ‘9-1-1’.Jack Zeman/FOX
There’s some really fun, crazy stuff that happens, but there’s also a lot of emotion.
I found myself getting emotional in places I didn’t expect to.”
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: What made you decide to do this coma episode?
Oliver Stark on ‘9-1-1’.FOX
KRISTEN REIDEL:We knew that we needed to do some kind of an episode after Buck died.
We couldn’t just be like, “Oh, he’s fine,” or whatever.
We had to figure out what the journey of Buck having been hit by lightning would be.
And ultimately we felt like it was the moment to finally do a dream episode.
How quickly did the story details come together from there?
I mean, Buck’s sitting on a couch with his dad sipping a beer, watching the game.
That’s a thing that never happened in Buck’s real life.
So there was a bit of wish fulfillment to the dream, at least at the start.
She’s not a completely different Maddie, but she’s lived a different life.
This Maddie is not at the place yet where she’s going to leave Doug.
That place is maybe a couple years off for her.
It was also startling to see that Bobby died.
What was it like filming those scenes with Peter?
STARK:It was a really great time, more than anything.
I know he was very excited to embrace this kind of weird, kooky version of himself.
At the end of the episode, Buck is on the road to recovery.
Will we actually see that recovery or will we jump forward in time?
STARK:This isn’t a two-episode arc that we then never hear of again.
And I think we’re going to see a new side of him.
We want to get our people back out there.
He won’t be on a couch for the rest of the season, I promise.
Speaking of couches, sounds like Buck is finally going to get one?!
REIDEL:There will be a new couch.
And spoiler alert, the new couch might be in some danger before the season is over.
STARK:I love that the fans have picked up on the symbolism of the couch.
Up until Buck’s very last scene of the season, we’ll see that symbolism at play.
