Chicago Fire’s Joe Minoso Says Cast Worries About Getting Killed Off: We’re ‘All Freaking Out Every Year’
usmagazine.comChicago Fire‘s season 10 is coming to a close, which means the cast is understandably concerned about their characters’ fates.One Chicago Casts’ Dating Histories “I think for Chicago Fire and PD, the cast worries [about their characters dying].
Med, it’s a little harder for the doctors to die, but it is definitely something that’s always at the back of your head. Any given episode can be your last,” Joe Minoso, who plays Joe Cruz on Chicago Fire, exclusively told Us Weekly. “This time of year, especially, everybody’s like, ‘Oh man, what’s gonna happen in the finale?
What’s gonna happen in the finale?’ We’re all freaking out every year. No one is ever safe. And you try to say, ‘I feel, like, pretty good.'”Audiences of the One Chicago universe know all too well that no one is safe.
Firehouse 51, in particular, lost Leslie Shay (Lauren German) in the season 3 premiere and Brian “Otis” Zvonecek (Yuriy Sardarov) in season 8.“Typically when you get to the last two, three episodes if your story line is lighter, you’re kind of happier about it because it means they’re not really focusing on the character,” Minoso, 43, explained to Us. “So hopefully they’re not gonna kill you off.”Severide and Stella’s Ups and Downs Through the Years Cruz and Otis, of course, were best friends, with Cruz even recently naming his first son after the late firefighter. “[That was] definitely 100 percent the writers’ call on that one, but at the same time, I remember [creator] Derek [Haas] pitching it to me and I was like, ‘His name’s Otis, right?’ It just felt right,” he recalled. “And I think everyone sort of knew that.
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