9-1-1 star Ryan Guzman says his character, Eddie, will have to learn to let go of the reins as his son, Christopher, navigates adolescence.
“Cristobal, [actor] gavin [McHugh]“He's actually incredibly tall now and has his own teenage vernacular,” Guzmán, 37, said exclusively. Us weekly while talking about season 7 of the ABC series. “So it's strange, now that I've gotten to know both the character and the artist, his evolution is in synchronicity. “Seeing him play Christopher this way now is like, 'Wow, kid, you've really grown up.'”
Guzmán and McHugh, 13, joined forces 9-1-1 at the beginning of the second part of the show as a single father and his son navigating the next chapter of their lives after Christopher's mother, Shannon (David Kelley), leave them. In his absence, Eddie learned to lean on members of the 118, like Buck (Oliver Stark), seeking help raising her son, who has cerebral palsy. However, in season 7, Chris wants to become independent from his father and Eddie is faced with the task of learning how to raise a teenager.
In the first episode of the season, the pair find themselves at odds when Eddie discovers that Christopher has been dating several girls in his class at once. Although he recruits Buck for advice, Guzman said. Us that Eddie will need to give Christopher more independence and space to move forward.
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“I think with Christopher it will be more of an exploration into this new version of himself,” he explained. “And then for Eddie, it will be allowing him to do that because Eddie has always had a strong hold on who Christopher is, what Christopher is doing, what he can and can't eat, all those things. It's going to be an opportunity for Eddie to sit back, and if he can sit down that's the real deal. [question].”
As for the actors themselves, Guzmán couldn't praise McHugh or his performance enough. “I feel like he's been doing an amazing job this season,” Guzmán said. Usnoting that McHugh plays “very well” with the light-hearted tension between the father-son duo.
Season 7 isn't just about Christopher's love life. Eddie is also going through his own relationship with his girlfriend, Marisol (Eddie Ganem). After the couple rushes to move in together, while Christopher is “away for a couple of days” in episode 4, Eddie quickly backtracks on the offer.
Realizing that the couple is moving too fast is a big “growing up” moment for Eddie, Guzmain noted, adding that “Eddie needs to understand who he's dealing with before he invites them into this very complicated life.”
It is also imperative to put your child first. “I think first and foremost is what this will do for Christopher,” she continued. “He always has Christopher in mind. So I think there was a lot of growth at the end of this episode and a very hopeful Eddie again.”
In more ways than one, season 7 has introduced a lighter side of Eddie, which long-time viewers will know is a shake-up from years past. But after serving in Afghanistan, dealing with the death of his ex-wife, dealing with panic attacks and PTSD, and surviving a near-fatal gunshot wound, Guzmán is ready to let Eddie have some fun.
“We've had all the traumatic stuff, the drama, the past seasons where he went through the war and lost all his friends and so much heaviness,” he said. Us. “And I think the conduit for revealing this new joy was connecting with their sense of community.”
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That community, of course, is the 118th, especially Buck and Captain Nash (Peter Krause), whom Guzmán calls Eddie's “rocks.”
“Allowing [Eddie] be vulnerable to [Buck and Bobby] “Sharing his story and getting a safe space has given me, as an actor and Eddie as a character, the opportunity to be light-hearted and have a little more fun,” Guzmán said. “And I think that's their thinking now: How do we turn the frown around?”
