It’s been three seasons since Colin Donnell‘s Dr. Connor Rhodes checked out of Chicago Med, and in that point, many different docs and nurses have come and gone by way of the Windy Metropolis hospital. However some have discovered their again, like Jessy Schram’s Dr. Hannah Asher and Yaya DaCosta’s April Sexton, prompting TVLine to ask showrunners Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider in the event that they’ve ever thought-about bringing again fan-favorite Connor.
“I don’t suppose you may ever rule that out,” Frolov advised us, including that the thought has been mentioned within the writers’ room. Added Schneider: “Colin was a man we cherished working with. He was a really robust member of the solid for a very long time, and we might welcome to see him once more.”
So would Donnell be open to reprising his function? “I cherished my time on Chicago Med, and I cherished Andy and Diane,” the actor mentioned whereas selling his upcoming Peacock sequence Irreverent (premiering Nov. 30). “I cherished our crew a lot, the solid was so great, and I do know they’ve had numerous comings and goings since I’ve left myself. However yeah, why ever shut a door?”
“I had such a good time, and I’ve such a passion not just for the entire universe of the Chicago exhibits, however I like town of Chicago itself a lot,” Donnell continues. “If it ever got here a knockin’, let’s see if the schedules work out. It’d be enjoyable to revisit that man.”
When Donnell final appeared on the NBC drama within the Season 5 premiere, Connor’s ex-girlfriend Ava admitted to killing Connor’s father for them, then slit her personal throat in entrance of him. After he was unable to avoid wasting Ava’s life, Connor determined he want a contemporary begin someplace far-off from this tragedy. On the time, Frolov and Schneider advised TVLine that Connor doubtless took a job on the Mayo Clinic, however Donnell suspects that his character won’t nonetheless be there.
“I’ve a sense that Connor by no means was one to remain put someplace too lengthy. He’s obtained a bit of little bit of wanderlust in there,” Donnell shares.
That will surely be according to the Connor that viewers first met within the sequence premiere, who appeared haunted when he joined the hospital after a stint overseas. “That was the wonderful thing about bringing that character in within the first place: While you’ve returned residence and located a spot that you simply need to form of embrace once more, there’s quite a bit to be mined there. I believe there’s nonetheless some stuff left to discover, ought to they determine to try this,” Donnell says.
Wanting again at his dramatic last episode, Donnell believes the writers “dealt with it very nicely.”
“I believed it was a daring ending, which I believe is at all times a good way in the event you’re going to exit a sequence and it’s not going to be a dying for that specific character,” Donnell says. “In fact, there was a dying concerned within the exit. However I believe him leaving on his personal phrases and form of making the choice for himself was a giant step and taking some possession over his life, which I believe we explored over the course of the seasons… And I believe they did a very good job of actually saying, ‘All proper, that is what I have to do for me.’ His focus was to essentially handle himself on the time, and to try this, he wanted to take off.”
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