Warning: This article contains spoilers aboutChicago Fireseason 9, episode 5, “My Lucky Day.”
“I was really happy that I got paired off with Joe Minoso; we’re old friends now.
We’re all like family.
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I really relate to Joe, and we have some common history.
I don’t like the wordbad there’s good and there’s destructive.
For the same reason, this was a favorite episode for Eigenberg.
“I’m an old theater whore,” the actor says with a laugh.
“We did one take that was 24 minutes long, which is unheard of in television.
We did a couple that were 15- or 20-minute-long takes, and that was really cool.
We were all locked up in an elevator, and it all really flowed.
It was also pretty exciting for the crew and the actors.
I remember after some of the more crazy takes, the entire crew broke into applause.
It was a very simple episode, but really cool.”
“That’s very sweet.
There are a couple of [performances] that stick out to me,” Eigenberg says.
“He’s the showrunner and things leap out to him.
I have a whole bunch that sit together, not sure if they’re best or better.
I’m not a ‘best’ guy.
Like when someone says, ‘You know what the best hamburger is?’
I care about having a good hamburger.”
He laughs again as he adds, “But I’m also not the best actor.”
“The character of Otis has been stitched into the show since day one,” Eigenberg says.
Yuri’s character was like 23, I think, and we all came of age together.
His character was so heartwarming and sweet.
We miss Yuri tremendously.
This is a show about life and death, which we’ve witnessed a lot of here in Chicago.
Those are the real stakes first responders are faced with every day.
These real firefighters that we get educated by and we spend time with, they carry that with them.
I hope that was conveyed in the episode.”
We have like five or six episodes left; it’s a short year because of the COVID shutdowns.
I would love to be there for him, but I don’t have a definite answer to that.
He will be a wonderful dad."
Could Cruz and Chloe welcome a little boy in the future who they’d maybe consider naming after Otis?
We’ll have to stay tuned to find out.
Chicago Fireairs Wednesday nights at 9 p.m. ET/PT on NBC.
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