Ryan Guzman Talks Eddie, Christopher Dynamic Change in 9-1-1 Season 7

9-1-1 star Ryan Guzman claims his character, Eddie, will have to discover to loosen the reigns as his son, Christopher, navigates adolescence.

“Christopher, [actor] Gavin [McHugh], truly, is amazingly tall now and he has his own teenage vernacular now,” Guzman, 37, completely advised Us Weekly when talking about season 7 of the ABC collection. “So it is odd, now that I have occur to know both of those character and artist, their evolution is in synchronicity. Seeing him portray Christopher in this manner now is just, like, ‘Wow, kid, you have seriously grown up.’”

Guzman and McHugh, 13, joined 9-1-1 at the get started of the show’s 2nd as a single father and his son navigating the future chapter of their lives soon after Christopher’s mother, Shannon (Devin Kelley), left them. In her absence, Eddie realized to lean on users of the 118, like Buck (Oliver Stark), for enable as he elevated his son, who has cerebral palsy. Period 7, having said that, sees Chris wanting independence from his father, and Eddie is faced with learning how to guardian a teen.

In the first episode of the time, the twosome locate on their own at odds when Eddie discovers Christopher has been dating various girls in his class at once. Despite the fact that he recruits Buck for suggestions, Guzman instructed Us that Eddie will want to give Christopher additional independence and room going ahead.

“I believe with Christopher, it’s heading to be much more of an exploration in direction of this new model of himself,” he described. “And then for Eddie, it is going to be allowing him to do that because Eddie has generally had a strong keep on who Christopher is, what Christopher’s carrying out, what he can and can not eat, all that stuff. It is likely to be an possibility for Eddie to sit back again, and can he sit back again is the serious [question].”

As for the actors on their own, Guzman couldn’t praise McHugh, or his effectiveness, adequate. “I really feel like he’s been undertaking an outstanding work this time,” Guzman explained to Us, noting that McHugh performs into the lighthearted stress among the father-son duo “so perfectly.”

Period 7 isn’t all about Christopher’s courting existence. Eddie is also navigating his personal partnership with his girlfriend, Marisol (Edy Ganem). After the pair jump as well rapidly into relocating in with each other — though Christopher is “away for a few of days” in episode 4 — Eddie immediately backtracks the offer.

The realization that the pair are moving also quick is a massive minute of “growth” for Eddie, Guzmain noted, including that “Eddie needs to fully grasp who he’s working with ahead of he invites them into this extremely convoluted life.”

Putting his son very first is also crucial. “I imagine 1st and foremost is what it will do for Christopher,” he ongoing. “He’s generally obtained Christopher on the front conclusion of his head. So I imagine there was a great deal of progress at the finish of this episode and a extremely hopeful Eddie again.”

In more techniques than 1, season 7 has introduced a lighter side to Eddie, which longtime viewers will know is a shakeup from a long time previous. But following serving in Afghanistan, working with the dying of his estranged spouse, struggling with worry attacks and PTSD and surviving a nearly lethal gunshot wound, Guzman is all set to enable Eddie have some fun.

“We’ve experienced all the traumatic stuff, the drama, the previous seasons of him going by means of his war and getting rid of all of his mates and so significantly heaviness,” he informed Us. “And I feel what the conduit to essentially unveiling this new lightheartedness was connecting with his perception of group.”

That neighborhood, of course, is the 118 — especially Buck and Captain Nash (Peter Krause), who Guzman calls Eddie’s “rocks.”

“Allowing [Eddie] to be susceptible in front of [Buck and Bobby] and share his story and obtaining a safe place has supplied me as the actor and Eddie as the character, the opportunity to just be lighthearted and have a small little bit extra pleasurable,” Guzman mentioned. “And I believe that’s his way of thinking now is just, like, how do we switch the frown upside down?”