9-1-1’s Ryan Guzman Says Buck, Eddie Connection Is ‘Stronger Than Ever’

9-1-1 star Ryan Guzman guarantees that Eddie and Buck will only expand nearer during time 7 now that Buck has been sincere about his sexuality. 

“I feel the top goal was to present that the connection concerning Buck and Eddie will keep on being, and that is heading to be stronger than at any time,” Guzman, 37, solely explained to Us Weekly. “Because now we have unveiled this new susceptible side of Buck, and final season we received to unveil this new side vulnerable aspect of Eddie. So the connection is just that considerably extra muy symptico.”

For the duration of the Thursday, April 11, episode of the ABC sequence, titled “You Really don’t Know Me,” Buck (Oliver Stark) struggles to uncover a way to be genuine with Eddie (Guzman) about his bisexuality. Right after a several failed attempts, he finds the suitable terms and they share an emotional moment, exactly where Eddie guarantees that “nothing” will change amongst the two longtime best buddies.

Guzman instructed Us that he pulled from his very own lifetime expertise when figuring out how to technique the scene as Eddie following experiencing a equivalent situation in his very own.

“I had a close friend of mine many years and several years in the past appear out to me and variety of have an evolution of himself, and I noticed that as the exact same thing for this scene,” he explained. “It’s just like, ‘Oh my God, this man is undertaking an incredibly brave matter in entrance of anyone that he does not know how they’ll manage this problem.’”

Guzman mentioned that Eddie’s greatest goal is to give Buck a “safe space” to truly feel “loved and read.” He also, nevertheless, wished to lean into a specific stage of shock taking into consideration Buck has only dated ladies during the system of the present.

“I wished to engage in in the shock and awe of his coming out mainly because all Buck has offered to us is this person that likes to sleep all over and has a new girlfriend every single two months,” he claimed. “So there was so quite a few terrific matters to participate in off of it.”

Eddie, of class, was confronted with his individual hard conversation in episode 5. Soon after inquiring girlfriend Marisol (Edy Ganem) to transfer in, he backs up his supply in hopes of slowing factors down concerning them. It’s a “proud” second for Eddie, Guzman said, who has designed a routine of transferring much too fast in his past associations.

“I assume so quite a few times Eddie has gotten in his way of observing some thing, obtaining actually psyched about it and remaining, like, let us go full tilt into it, let us get married tomorrow, which is Eddie’s difficulty,” he stated. “So not trying to fill this void that [his late ex-wife] Shannon still left with any individual with just anybody, I believe is a huge growth moment for Eddie.”

There’s also the subject of Eddie’s son, Christopher (Gavin McHugh), and recognizing that Eddie’s choices never just affect him. “He requires to understand who he’s dealing with just before he invites them into this extremely convoluted everyday living,” he ongoing. “And I imagine initially and foremost is what it will do for Christopher. He’s often bought Christopher on the front close of his intellect.”

For Guzman, the choice exhibits “growth” for his character, who he feels leaves the episode experience “hopeful” about his intimate long run. Regardless of whether that is with Marisol stays to be seen, but Guzman told Us he “loved” having to perform an extremely-pressured-out Eddie who just can’t come to phrases with dating an individual who helps make him truly feel like he “just slept with God.”

A much more lighthearted Eddie is a thing Guzman is experiencing in general. After six seasons leaning into the “traumatic” aspects of Eddie’s lifestyle, the actor stated he can “finally chill out a tiny bit” and perform up the humor. It’s one thing he believes is feasible due to the fact of the character’s solid relationships and perception of “community.”

“I indicate Bobby (Peter Krause) and Buck, [those are] his two rocks,” Guzman explained. “So allowing for Eddie to be vulnerable in front of them and share his tale and having a harmless place has offered me as the actor and Eddie as the character, the prospect to just be lighthearted and have a tiny little bit additional enjoyable. And I believe that is his state of mind now is just, like, how do we transform the frown upside down?”

That deep connection to Buck is some thing many enthusiasts are hopeful will just one day be taken to the next stage. Guzman, for his component, is completely knowledgeable there are legions of viewers who want to see the two males get with each other, and wholly understands why the Buck and Eddie dynamic means so substantially to so numerous.

“I imagine the audience loves people two characters specifically, since of how they perform off each individual other,” noting that the duo “mirrored” each other in a good deal of strategies when Guzman 1st joined the cast in season 2. “And to exhibit the evolution of equally people and [them] obtaining closer and nearer, I consider the vulnerability, the means to lean on each and every other at their worst times has genuinely linked them in a way exactly where the audience now sort of puts by themselves in that relationship.”

Whether Buck and Eddie will convert from close friends to fans is not known, but Guzman said he’s “here for” anywhere the writers want to just take the tale — as long as what makes Buck and Eddie particular stays intact along the way.

“Whatever occurs among the people takes place, but I believe the sanctity of that vulnerability is what desires to be retained, and the relationship,” he defined. “Whatever takes place with Buck discovering if he needs to explore this route [with his sexuality] even further or not, that link maintains by itself.”

For now, Guzman is thrilled that folks are developing their have tale traces for Buck and Eddie, and feeling connected to the onscreen duo. He’s even read some of the fanmade perform and is really impressed with what people have come up with.

“I’ve viewed it all. Me and Oliver have enjoyable with that. We like to glance into it and say, ‘Oh, Okay, perfectly this is the new story line,’ he quipped. “I believe someone just wrote a few [fake] scenes for episode 5, and I read through them and was like, ‘Wow, it kind of seems like [showrunner] Tim Minear wrote this.’”

“I like that,” he reported, smiling. “I appreciate all the fandom.”

9-1-1 airs on ABC Thursdays at 8 p.m. ET.