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This one hurts. Hailey Upton put an finish to her marriage with Jay Halstead within the Chicago P.D. season 11 premiere. She signed the divorce papers and despatched them off. Ever since Halstead left Intelligence for a brand new job, his relationship with Upton was by no means the identical. Hollywood Life spoke completely with government producer Gwen Sigan about whether or not or not Upton will get additional closure about ending her marriage.
“I feel there’ll be extra emotional closure for certain and the hope on the opposite aspect of it,” Sigan mentioned. “We’ve lived rather a lot within the ache of it and the wrestle of needing to let go of one thing and the way tough that’s been. However we’ll get to the opposite aspect of it and really feel some closure and really feel that love. That relationship was not unhealthy. That relationship was simply one thing that couldn’t stay perpetually, however that can see Upton rework and get to a greater place.”
Clearly, Upstead followers need to know if that is actually it for Hailey and Jay. “We’ve no plans proper now of him returning to the present, so there’s nothing proper now,” Sigan revealed. “However I might by no means say by no means to something. I feel 20 years from now what these characters are doing, they is likely to be collectively in my thoughts. They only have a lot love for one another.”
Tracy Spiridakos introduced her exit from the present forward of the season 11 premiere. Nevertheless, Sigan promised that Tracy is “within the full season.” Sigan added, “She’s going to join with characters once more and be introduced again into the household of the unit. We’ve received some actually enjoyable characters coming in for her to play up in opposition to and people can even be part of that journey of recent self-discovery and new transformation.”
Whereas Tracy will likely be within the full season, Sigan has began to consider what Intelligence will seem like with out Upton. “We’ve been speaking about it, however I feel the unit goes to be fairly lean with out Tracy. So sure, I might love to have the ability to type of add one thing new and completely different. It at all times offers the present some freshness and likewise offers our characters somebody new to play in opposition to, which is after all enjoyable. So sure, hopefully, we’ll have some new characters coming in.
On the finish of season 10, Ruzek was shot on the job after going undercover. Ruzek was rushed into surgical procedure within the ultimate moments of the finale. Getting again on the job is just not going to be a simple journey for Ruzek in season 11.
“We love the concept of taking part in it with him as realistically as we may,” Sigan famous. “More often than not in the event you’re shot on the job, it’s a really lengthy course of to get again on the job. The second episode we’re calling ‘Retread,’ which is the actual course of within the CPD. You must retread. You must cross every part once more. You must cross bodily checks. You must cross all the written checks once more. It’s an extended course of.”
She continued, “For somebody like Ruzek, whose self-worth is so tied to his job. His job is him. His job is his blood. It was his father, his grandpa, this man is third technology police. And so to immediately not have that and never have the bodily capability to simply really feel in your physique you’re the identical particular person as a result of the bodily rehab that we didn’t get to see that occurred within the 6 months offscreen was not straightforward. After which simply mentally that information that you simply miss the job a lot, and you’ve got this gap. What do you do to fill that gap that was crammed with that job is such an attention-grabbing place to be. We actually dive into it in episode 2, into his headspace, and into kind of that spin out of mentally what do you do, after which seeing Burgess need to be that rock for him and him have to seek out his manner out of it’s a very nice, satisfying story in episode 2.”
On the subject of Atwater, Sigan teased that his journey will likely be “completely different” than something he’s gone by earlier than. “We noticed final season him unite together with his father. We’ll get to see Lou once more this season, which we’re actually enthusiastic about,” she advised Hollywood Life. “We’ll see how that relationship has progressed. He’s received this actually impactful storyline of when you have got so many issues occurring in your life, you’re accountable to so many individuals, you’re accountable for a lot, and also you need to be so many issues to so many individuals, are you able to maintain that perpetually? And what would occur if one thing have been to happen that shifts that and you could’t be accountable for? It’s an attention-grabbing place to place his character, and I’m very enthusiastic about it.” Chicago P.D. airs Wednesdays at 10 p.m. on FOX.
