Chicago P.D. pulls out all of the stops each week — however nothing fairly in comparison with its 200th episode, which discovered Kim Burgess (Marina Squerciati) and Adam Ruzek (Patrick John Flueger) attempting to piece collectively a darkish case whereas caught aboard the busy “L” subway practice.
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“It’s a pretty chaotic process. There were so many moving parts to this. I don’t remember yesterday much less a few episodes ago, but that sure felt like the most ambitious thing,” Flueger, 39, completely informed Us Weekly of “Trapped,” which aired on Wednesday, February 22. “You’ve got some of the grip boys rocking the train with two-by-fours to make it look like we’re moving. You’ve got hair and makeup who are all rushing around because we’re shooting completely out of order. … It’s all over the map. And so, everybody’s trying to track where they are, and Marina is in the midst of it and its chaos. People are yelling and like, not out of anger, but trying to get things done.”
The Princess Diaries actor in contrast the manufacturing to a blockbuster movie. “A movie would shoot this sequence for what, two months?” he requested Squerciati, 38, in the course of the joint interview. “Something like that for a long time. And we tried to do it in three or four days. God bless our crew.”
Patrick John Flueger, Marina Squerciati. Lori Allen/NBC
The NBC procedural retains it shifting when capturing every scene. “You don’t get a ton of takes in TV,” Squerciati defined. “There’s just no time. Our executive producer is really kind and lovely and if I need it, he’ll definitely give it to me, but I try not to. Our crew is working their tater tots off, so it’s not like I want to be pushing everyone to the limit. I’ll use that card when I really need it, but you really try and hit it on the first or second try.”
Burgess’ trauma has slowly been catching as much as her in season 10. And throughout Wednesday’s episode, the Intelligence cop is pressured to confront her previous expertise whereas engaged on the case with Ruzek. (She beforehand was kidnapped, shot and almost killed, and started to indicate indicators of PTSD when her hand involuntarily started to shake in episode 8.)
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“Marina literally carried [this episode] and I haven’t seen the whole thing, but crush town, population one, Marina,” Flueger gushed of his costar. “Bottom line is she would have 19 people in her face moving her clothes around, putting blood on, taking clothes off because they were too bloody, this, that and the other thing. And then it would be action. And her ability to snap out of that … [maybe] that chaos going on around us helped her. But I was consistently impressed.”
Marina Squerciati. Lori Allen/NBC
Burgess has a panic assault in “Trapped,” which Squerciati ready for by watching movies on-line. “There’s an ABC journalist that had a panic attack on air. There’s a model that was having a photo shoot and had a panic attack on her Instagram and posted it,” she defined to Us. “I did a ton of work. And I hope that it shows because … I really wanted it to be grounded in reality.”
Flueger chimed in: “I can’t imagine how exhausted she was at the end of the day. And then she’s got her real life to go back to, which is also much more complicated than mine. Can’t imagine.”
The actress and her husband, Chicago-based lawyer Eli Kay-Oliphant, are dad and mom of a daughter, whom they welcomed in 2017. “You can’t tell your kid, ‘Listen, can you get yourself to school today? Cause mama’s tired,’” she teased. Flueger added: ”’Mom held a faux dying man in her arms for the final two days. So college lunch must be made by you.’ That’s not a actuality.”
Flueger and Squerciati have labored on the crime drama since its 2014 debut. The present additionally stars Jason Beghe, LaRoyce Hawkins, Amy Morton and Tracy Spiridakos.
To have fun its 200th episode, the forged and crew did a cake slicing on set, however they’ll most definitely discover one other time to absorb the massive milestone collectively.
“I think at the end of the season. There’s just so much work that goes into this show. It’s really hard to find time to celebrate,” Squerciati mentioned.
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Flueger famous that “there was no slowing down” as a result of the episode was “so ambitious.” He went on to joke that attempting to recall the previous 200 episodes has additionally confirmed to be troublesome.
“I’d say 99.9 percent out of the time that I catch an episode that wasn’t filmed yesterday, I’m like, ‘What? That’s surprising,’” he informed Us. “This is gonna paint a picture of me more. I remember what happened after that day of work more than I remember the day of work. Like, ‘Oh, I remember that. That’s where we went that weekend, and we got the party bus to wherever.’ That’s kind of how I measure time — less moments of work and more moments of tremendous fun.”
For Squerciati, she will be able to pinpoint an episode primarily based on what the climate circumstances had been like. “The only thing I’ll remember is if it was particularly cold. Particularly hot or if I got injured. I was like, ‘Oh, right. I busted my kneecap on that one.’”
Chicago P.D. airs Wednesdays on NBC at 10 p.m. ET.
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