Halstead is back in the Windy City — but in a new role. Jesse Lee Soffer is making his directorial debut on Chicago P.D.’s Wednesday, March 22, episode, titled “Deadlocked.” Memorable One Chicago Couples “It was great.
It was pretty seamless. Working with everybody for 10 seasons together, we all direct each other here and there. We’re all figuring out ways to make scenes come to life and bring what’s on the page to the camera,” Soffer, 38, exclusively told Us Weekly ahead of the episode’s debut. “And so we’ve been doing it all along.
It was an easy transition.”The actor “feverishly” went over the script every night during the week of filming alongside his former costars Jason Beghe, Tracy Spiridakos, LaRoyce Hawkins and Marina Squerciati.“Directing is totally different.
Acting, you’re just prepping your lines and the scenes that you’re gonna be in. You’re looking over the whole script to figure out the tone and what the story’s about and everything. … And it’s the same with directing, but you’ve been doing it for a couple weeks longer because you were prepping the episode,” he explained to Us. “I was definitely tearing through that script going line by line in every scene going, ‘OK, we’re gonna do this and this is.
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