Edwin Hodge is rather like Us and was fearful that Particular Agent Ray Cannon wouldn’t make it down the aisle on the season 5 finale of FBI: Most Wished.
Warning: Spoilers beneath for FBI: Most Wished season 5, episode 13.
“My first query was like, ‘What’s taking place on the wedding ceremony?’ I must know. I don’t need any surprises,” Hodge, 39, completely informed Us Weekly of the Tuesday, Could 21, season finale. “‘Do I get shot? Is it an enormous factor?’ They usually’re like, ‘No, no, no, no. The marriage is the marriage. After which the case goes to battle with it.’ I used to be like, ‘All proper, cool.’”
He confessed, “I undoubtedly had that — I’m going to name it a worry that one thing inventive was going to go on on the wedding ceremony.”
Throughout Tuesday’s finale, Ray married Cora Love (Caroline Harris) after proposing earlier this season, marking the primary wedding ceremony within the FBI universe.
“I didn’t find out about that honor till we shot the marriage day,” Hodge recalled. “Individuals love a love story, and our love story is wrapped up in a bunch of crying, however folks like to see it. And being the primary wedding ceremony, being the primary to get married, it’s a humbling and an honoring factor.”
Regardless of just a few hiccups together with his job, the couple made it down the aisle within the finale. Ray and Cora’s large day even included cameos from the solid and crew that some viewers may’ve missed.
“It was type of like an all-hands-on-deck state of affairs,” Hodge revealed. “Our wardrobe division was in cahoots with discovering music for the marriage. We even have a few of our crew take part within the wedding ceremony.”
He famous that the “significance” for him stemmed from every part feeling “actual” and “pure,” which included honoring his character’s New Orleans roots.
“Anytime we are able to get on TV and see our tradition being honored [or] being part of honoring our tradition is a good factor,” Hodge informed Us, gushing over the characters’ second line that’s “necessary just about” in any wedding ceremony that occurs within the Huge Straightforward.
He defined that displaying one other tradition “advantages everybody with the ability to see folks in numerous lights and settle for folks for who they’re.”
Hodge continued: “This wedding ceremony is simply one other approach of simply displaying the world that, ‘Hey, that is a part of our tradition. That is what we do. We’d like to play devices and stroll by way of the road and dance. We’ll go eat our beignets and we going to name it a day.’ So yeah, I find it irresistible.”
Hodge additionally praised his costar Harris, revealing that she “exhibits up one hundred pc on daily basis” once they share a scene.
“We’re a uncooked couple. I got here right into a state of affairs the place she had a child. For lots of males, that’s a call that weighs on ’em,” he recalled. “Ray was gung ho. He was like, ‘Let’s make this occur.’ He knew what he wished in his life, and that was Cora and Caleb, and he took these steps.”
In the case of season 6, Hodge is hopeful that Ray’s relationship with Cora and his now stepson, Caleb (Ja’Siah Younger), might be on the forefront.
“Now they’re put in a state of affairs the place somebody they love might probably die at any second due to their job,” Hodge informed Us. “So, there’s a layer cake of complexities on the subject of their relationship, and I’m simply wanting ahead to taking part in that out.”
Season 6 of FBI: Most Wished will premiere on CBS in fall 2024.
With reporting by Yana Grebenyuk