#tvinsider interview

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Oliver Stark tvinsider video interview: relationship like others, romance with understanding, episode 6 spiraling

...Does Buck want a relationship like the others—Bobby (Peter Krause) and Athena (Angela Bassett), Maddie (Jennifer Love Hewitt) and Chimney (Kenneth Choi), and Hen (Aisha Hinds) and Karen (Tracie Thoms)—have, with the romance and partnership right now, or is he still figuring that out? “I think everybody wants someone that obviously they have the romance with, but that there’s an understanding of each other’s job...

He added, “Obviously, right now he is with somebody that is a first responder in Episode 5. But yeah, I do think in the long term that would be, I mean, not necessary but helpful.”

When it comes to Buck’s relationship, Stark teased some spiraling ahead in Episode 6 (airing November 7). “I’m looking forward to [that]. I like when Buck gets too in his own head and goes to people around him to ask questions and advice,” he shared...

Jacobs, M. (2024 Oct 24). '9-1-1': Oliver Stark on What Buck Wants in a Relationship (VIDEO). TV Insider.

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Sam Reid and Jacob Anderson for TV Insider 2024

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If Ryan's first interview in four years is just him getting grilled about buddie, I'm gonna lose my shit.

I want the deep insightfulness on the storylines from over the last 3 seasons. I wanna hear him talk about doing the breakdown arc. I could fucking careless about what bullshit he has to make up to answer a buddie question because if its happening, he will not be allowed to talk about it anyways!

[laf-outloud]

This article has a ton of great tidbits, especially about Cordell's relationships with different people, but I have to share the story about Jared's toe!

Poor guy! First his knee, then his toe? Someone needs to wrap him in bubble-wrap, lol!

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Hey! I was just wondering, how do we know the still of Lestat (supposedly from ep7) is from the trial? Are people just guessing, or is there a clue I missed? Tbh I'm surprised if they're leaving the trial so late, it means they'll have to cram a lot into the last 2 eps. And they'll have to expand on the book's plot a lot if they're dragging out the Paris storyline for so long - not that that's necessarily a bad thing, I'm just surprised if they really are structuring it that way!

Well... I also think it's from the trial.

It was TVInsider who released this photo.

They said the following there:

Lestat is sitting in an ornate red chair with gold trim that’s similar to the theater’s seating in the trailer. He sits in front of a black pillar, an architectural detail seen throughout the theater in the Season 2 clips.

Later on, IWTV daily shared a pic of the crew with that chair, on a stage.

The book gives us the following:

He spoke in an undertone about Louis and Claudia, that there would be some kind of trial. Down on his knees he came to sit beside me, forgetting for a moment to be human, the boy gentleman sitting in this filthy damp place. "You will declare it before the others, that she did it, " he said. And the others, the new ones, came to the door to look at me one by one. "Get clothing for him, " Armand said. His hand was resting on my shoulder. "He must look presentable, our lost lord, " he told them.

So I do also think this is Armand's version of Lestat at the trial.

As per cramming a lot in - if you look at what you did with the first episodes? There is SO MUCH going on. I bet that will be the same here, too.

They'll rip our hearts out either way^^

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Jesse Lee Soffer Returns to ‘Chicago P.D.’ to Direct: ‘It’s Like I Never Really Left’

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Jeremy's joke idea of a happy ending for Succession 😌💕😭

Jeremy Strong for TV Insider 3/22/23

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Love all of this. 🥺 Just wanted to add this section from an interview where Rafa and Ronen talk about this very thing:

It felt like we heard T.K. referred to as Tyler or Tyler Kennedy more times in the finale than the rest of the series. It’s always such a sweet touch to have that in there.

Silva: Yeah. Remind people what his name is. And who gets to say it, too, right?

Rubinstein: Yeah, it’s not T.K. by accident. There’s a lot of trauma, I think, with that. There’s only two people in the world that call him Tyler: his mom and Carlos. Even his own dad doesn’t call him Tyler. It’s a unique special thing that now only Carlos gets to hold, and yeah, Carlos did say it a lot. (x)

Just something hits so good about how Tyler belongs only to Carlos. Owen doesn't call him that. I semi-head-canon that Gwyn did but canonically she doesn't really, she called him Tyler Kennedy! in that disapproving mom way where she's middle-naming him but she never called him just Tyler. Carlos found out what TK stands for a week into knowing him and he decided he was gonna earn the right to call him Tyler and he did and no one else has ever gotten that. Others get varying pieces of TK but only Carlos gets Tyler.

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Interview with the Vampire Stars break down that game-changing season 2 finale - TvInsider

armand apologists we're so back

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I love video interviews. I like to see their face when they answer because it gives you more information imo.

Oliver Stark interview with TVinsider for 911 season 8 episode 5.

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Oliver Stark tvinsider interview: boils, cowboy, tommy's past, buck and eddie, myself and ryan, hotshots world

“One of the challenges of the episode was trying to then include such a serious emergency and I’m there with boils on my face,” he adds. “We didn’t want to take away from the seriousness of what was going on. So it was about finding ways to tuck me away and not let my ridiculous face take away from the moment.”

“Buck is going to learn more about Tommy’s past and that is going to send him into somewhat of a spiral. And yeah, he’ll have to lean on those around him and get some really, I think, quite profound advice.” This is something new about Tommy’s past, not something we’ve seen in the flashbacks.

Also coming up in Episode 6 is a nice scene between Buck and Eddie, who is really going through it this season with his son Christopher (Gavin McHugh) in Texas.

“I think that kind of moves along a little bit in Episode 6. Eddie has some really beautiful story in Episode 6, and I think there’s a really nice scene between the two of us, myself and Ryan, at the end of 6, that speaks volumes to what the relationship between them is and how even when they don’t have to say too much to each other, they know how to be there for each other,” Stark previews.

Looking ahead past that, 9-1-1 is returning to the world of Hotshots, the firefighter show that Bobby was stuck working on as a tech advisor before he finally returned to the 118 where he belongs. (Brian Thompson’s Gerrard took over that job on the set.)

Jacobs, M. (2024 Oct 24). '9-1-1': Oliver Stark Talks Halloween Episode & Teases More Buck Spiraling (VIDEO). TV Insider.

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“[Geeta V.] Patel says that Rhaenyra and Alicent's dynamic is 'absolutely' the love story at the center of House of the Dragon. 'Come with me,' Alicent begged Rhaenyra in their last secret meeting. Rhaenyra admitted she wanted to go, but the call to duty was too great. Another way to interpret their final shots is that Rhaenyra is shrouded in history, almost being crushed beneath the weight of it, and Alicent is left with nothing and without the person she wants with her most.”

— TVInsider interview with Geeta V. Patel

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Interview snippets about Bucktommy and other Buck S8 storylines (Sources: Screenrant, TVInsider)

EDIT:

More snippets from Tim Minear's interview...

(Source: TV Guide)

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unknown artist // quote by Herb Caen // House of the Dragon 2x08 // Geeta V. Patel in a tvinsider interview // art by marina.ab.art // The Deceitfulness of Riches (1901) by Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale // In a Rose Garden by Lawrence Alma-Tadema // Pillow Thoughts by Courtney Peppernell

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Six times Ryan described Eddie as straight

(Bolding is mine. I’ve highlighted where he’s said Eddie is straight as well as his point that he wants to “dispel” that just because Buck and Eddie are vulnerable with one another, it doesn’t mean Eddie is queer. I also bold where he says that it’s more important to show audiences that Eddie, a straight man and ally, can be friends with a queer man, and it doesn’t affect their friendship or "change the sexuality" of the straight man. I’ll also note that he answered almost every interview question that implied Eddie was queer this way during the end-of-s7 interviews. He seems to only not go into this spiel if the interview question is clearly about Buck and Eddie's platonic relationship. Edit: I want to add that I think the queer Eddie headcanon is totally valid, and I see how people see and write that from various moments in the show. It just seems like they have no plans to go there in canon.) 

9-1-1’ Star Ryan Guzman on Buck & Eddie: ‘It’s Baby Steps Towards Anything & If Anything’ — May 9, 2024 — Meredith Jacobs — Swooon (formerly on TVInsider)

Even before 9-1-1 Season 7, fans have wondered if the drama would eventually pair Buck (Oliver Stark) and Eddie (Ryan Guzman) together romantically. And now, with this season featuring Buck exploring his bisexuality—he’s with former 118 member Tommy (Lou Ferrigno Jr.)—the question does have to be asked if the show could go there with him and his best friend.

“We just got to the point where Buck is having this own personal growth of himself, so it’s like baby steps towards anything and if anything,” Guzman tells TV Insider.

Furthermore, he’s especially enjoying what this arc is “showcasing on national television: a bisexual man coming out to a heterosexual man and having the strength to do such, and then having the heterosexual man giving that man a safe space to be caught in and to be loved and nurtured. I think there’s still an air out there in the world that your sexuality preference determines if you’re weak or not, or determines if you’re capable or not, of being just a good human being, which is such a crazy thing to think about,” Guzman continues. “I love that we get to dispel that ideology and we get to showcase and reflect to the world that your sexual preference has no meaning in friendships and connection. Accept people for who they are, love people for who they are, and let’s keep it pushing. Let’s have fun. Let’s have a great time.”

9-1-1′s Ryan Guzman Reacts to [Spoiler]’s Return and Eddie’s Betrayal: ‘He’s Weaving a Dangerous Web’ — May 9, 2024 — Andy Swift — TVLine

TVLINE | I think I have more appreciation for Eddie this season after watching his friendship with Buck reach a new level. Buck is in such a vulnerable place, and it’s given Eddie a chance to step up and support him. A lot of guys come out and worry that things won’t be the same with their straight friends, but Eddie handled everything perfectly. He’s a true ally, that one.

I just access from my own personal life with friends that have come out to me. I think we were all raised in a generation where men were expected to be hardened and not access our feelings. … You can still be that type of man and be friends with a person who has a completely different sexuality than you. It has nothing to do with you. It doesn’t make his jokes less funny, the time you hang out with him isn’t any weirder or more awkward. If it does, the person who’s feeling that way has something they’re going through that they maybe need to come out to, too.

I would love to reflect onto the world that you should be there for your brother, you know, be there for your sister. If someone comes out to you, handle it with a net of safety and love and just keep it pushing after that. Like, “That must have been hard for you. Now that we’re past that, let’s go enjoy your lives.”

9-1-1’s Ryan Guzman on Eddie’s Shocking New Love Interest and the Consequences He’ll Face — May 10, 2024 — Ashley Bissette Sumerel — Tell-Tale TV

Guzman also discussed Eddie’s reaction to Buck coming out as bisexual earlier this season. 

“[Buck] coming out as a bisexual man to a person who is, not necessarily machismo, but a typical heterosexual individual with all these accolades behind him, that could be very scary for a man like Buck to come out to,” he noted.

However, when Buck reveals to Eddie that he and Tommy had been on a date, Eddie’s reaction is one of acceptance and love.

“Partly why I love that specific scene so much is because it was an opportunity to showcase to the world [that] this is how you handle that situation — that sexual preference doesn’t dictate how we should interact with each other and how I should treat you as a human being. And that doesn’t make me love you any less or think of you any less,” Guzman said.

“It just shows me what you like. I’ve already shown you what I like… and clearly, it’s my dead wife,” he laughed.

“Oliver [Stark] and I are aware that everybody has their own renditions of what Buck and Eddie are to be,” Guzman continued, referring to the hope many fans have that Buck and Eddie will eventually develop a romance.

“We love the love. We love that they’re invested so much into these characters,” Guzman said.

“Everything has to fall in its own truth, and at this moment, I think the beauty and the truth is that a man saw another man in need and was seeing another man be so vulnerable in front of him. And what he did was say, ‘Hey, I got you, brother. Don’t worry.'”

Speaking of the possibility of a Buddie romance, Guzman said that while he didn’t want to speculate, his feeling is that audiences are drawn to the vulnerability between the two characters.

“I can’t read the audience’s mind, and I don’t want to speculate on anything that I don’t know, but I think that people tend to lean on the vulnerability side. That’s something that I’ve always tried to explore in this character specifically because I can relate to it,” he said. “A lot of people feel that just because you’re vulnerable, it means that you’re a certain thing or not. And I’ve always wanted to dispel that a little bit.”

“You can be a very macho man and be vulnerable at the same time, but it’s who you’re vulnerable to. Because vulnerability is a gift. You just don’t share it out to the world. And if you do, you better have strength in that vulnerability and confidence in that vulnerability. It’s gotta be tried and true.”

“So, I think that this is another great opportunity to showcase that men can be vulnerable with each other and allow for that space of growth. And we might’ve met each other at one time in our lives, but it doesn’t mean that we have to hold each other to that point,” Guzman said.

‘9-1-1’ Star Ryan Guzman Breaks Down That Emotional Finale Goodbye — May 30, 2024 — Max Gao — The Hollywood Reporter

Eddie was raised with the toxic masculine ideal that he had to suppress his emotions, and it’s only been through his relationships at the 118 that he has begun to feel more comfortable with expressing his feelings. How do you think Eddie’s upbringing has influenced the kind of person he is in the present day? And as someone who has drawn plenty of parallels between yourself and Eddie, what parts of your own lived experiences have you drawn from?

I pull from a lot of my own personal history. I always had emotions when I was younger. Growing up in Sacramento, it was always frowned upon to have these emotions and even trying to understand them. Actually, I was told that it was homosexual to feel these feelings, and I’m like, “Wait, so having feelings makes me be this kind of person? I don’t understand this.” So it was always something that I never could understand in the setting that I was growing up in.

Now I use that as a conduit to Eddie, because the setting he was growing up in was similar. Coming into this new family of seeing Hen and now Buck being versions of themselves who are living in their truth, it now allows Eddie to live in his truth and see there is new life and new opportunity. He’s allowing himself to be vulnerable and realize, “No, [being vulnerable] doesn’t make me less of a man, and it’s not an indication that my sexuality has to completely change because I feel these emotions. I’m still the same man. I just now have a greater awareness and greater depth of who I am because of these emotions.” This has always been something that I’ve wanted to portray on camera, and having Eddie be the conduit for that has been an incredible opportunity for myself as an actor and as a person. I love the fact that I’m able to show to the world, through Eddie, that having this vulnerability with your brothers or your sisters doesn’t make you anything that the world might throw at you as a title. It just makes you more aware of who you are and gives you an opportunity for some emotional intelligence. 

Ryan Guzman of 9-1-1 — May 20, 2024 — Tommy DiDario — I've Never Said This Before With Tommy DiDario (Podcast)

Tommy (12:46): You can't predict the future. Nobody can on this show. But if the opportunity one day happened to come your way where they were like, "This storyline might be explored between Buck and Eddie," would you be open to that storyline in the future? I see you smiling. Oliver had the same reaction, a big grin on his face when I asked this.

Ryan (13:06): Yeah, you know, like I said, it's got to live in the truth. And I think right now we live at a moment, or me, I live moment to moment. So I love the fact that the biggest plot point between these two characters is one happens to be bi, one happens to be hetero, and they have this vulnerability towards each other. And that is the truth to me. It's the fact that you have such a safe space, and it doesn't matter your sexuality, that you have a safe space to talk to this individual, and he can fully accept you. If we can stay with that, then whatever happens happens. But I don't necessarily want to push the fact that because you're vulnerable, you have to be one way or the other in your sexuality. I would hate to, you know, have a lot of other men who are struggling mentally and not sure about, "Oh, do I even open up? Will that make me something that I'm not?" I would hate to push that narrative. So if we live in the truth, whatever happens happens. And again, I'm here for it all.

9-1-1’s Ryan Guzman Breaks Down Eddie’s Biggest Season 7 Moments: Bachelor Party Hijinks and More — June 10, 2024 — Kat Pettibone — Us Weekly

Whether it be through his military duty, being Latino, his religion or his relationship with Buck — which some fans perceive as romantic — Eddie Diaz is someone who makes viewers feel seen. Playing a character who can connect to so many, Guzman shared, is something he takes seriously.

[Note: Kat Pettibone shared that this is the specific question she asked here: “There are a lot of queer fans who see themselves in Eddie Diaz despite him not being canonically queer himself. How does it feel to play someone who makes people feel seen and represented — in a multitude of ways, but for queer people as well?”]

“I love the ambiguity of Eddie and that there’s connective tissue there — for queer people or not — to relate and to fall in love and to find themselves in who Eddie is,” he said. “I mean, there’s a vulnerability in Eddie, there’s also a chaos in Eddie. There’s so much realness in Eddie. And I love that there’s so many fans out there of all demographics that find themselves in Eddie.”

Guzman said that he hopes to show “the more humane side” of Eddie, highlighting that “within community, we can all heal.”

“That’s what I see the 118 being for Eddie,” he continued. “It’s this therapy, this family, whether you’re lesbian like Hen or you’re bisexual like Buck, it does not matter your sexual orientation. We can all share the same dinner plate and we can all love each other and feel safe enough to say whatever it is we want to say. That’s the kind of world I want to live in. And that’s what I love about Eddie. And the fact that he gets to portray to all these other individuals who are militant and raised Catholic and very hard-edged, to let those boundaries go.”