Warning: Delicate spoilers from Monday’s 9-1-1 (Season 6, Episode 7) forward.
“The universe was clearly attempting to ship [Buck] a message” on this week’s 9-1-1, actor Oliver Stark tells TVLine. “However generally we don’t hearken to the universe.”
Although a lot of the episode centered on a washed-up actress who believed she was cursed, we additionally received an necessary — albeit painfully delayed — replace on Buck’s journey as a sperm donor. A string of mishaps, from energy outages to scheduling conflicts, postponed the donation, leaving Buck understandably… annoyed.
“Anytime we do these fast, poppy montages, it’s all the time enjoyable,” Stark says of filming Buck’s determined makes an attempt to make his donation. “And I do know 9-1-1 all the time makes nice music decisions.”
Whereas Stark didn’t anticipate this storyline for Buck (“Sperm donor was not on my Bingo card, so it took me a bit unexpectedly”), he appreciates that it offers Buck “an opportunity to ask all these questions on himself. He doesn’t fairly notice the gravity of the scenario but. You’ll be able to’t know the way you are feeling till there’s probably a child. So I’m excited to see the way it performs out and the way this continues to have an effect on him.”
“Buck is all the time reaching for one thing,” Stark provides. “He’s clawing at no matter he can to seek out this sense of — I don’t need to say identification, as a result of his job is a lot part of his identification — however a way of which means and validation. He needs to be a factor, he simply doesn’t know what the factor is.”
Buck managed to make his donation by the tip of the hour, which implies his half within the child making course of is actually over — however does he know that? Unlikely. “It’s best to all the time be fearful that Buck would possibly get a bit of overzealous in any position he’s in,” Stark confirms. “Greater than something, he’ll in all probability put a bit of an excessive amount of weight on himself in an emotional sense.”
Wanting forward, we will additionally anticipate to be taught extra concerning the “back-and-forth” relationship that Buck has along with his mother and father: Phillip (Gregory Harrison) and Margaret (Dee Wallace) “are going to make a return within the again half of the season,” Stark says. “I’m excited for that one, first as a result of I really like these actors, and in addition as a result of [that relationship] is such a giant a part of who he’s. It clearly informs a lot of who he’s, who he has develop into and the choices he has made. I’m comfortable to provide that extra exploration and time on display screen, and to see how the connection can change transferring ahead.”
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