And as soon as once more, Station 19 closed out the season with a harrowing cliffhanger that’ll have us biting our nails till its return.
Jack collapsed at the finish of Station 19 Season 6 Episode 18, the ramifications of yet one more head damage, and we’re left questioning how he’ll fare healthwise and if he’ll ever be capable of inform Vic the fact about Theo.
We had the privilege of catching up with the candy, humorous, charming star, Grey Damon, whose title completely contradicts his pure skill to be human sunshine, to debate all issues Station 19 and Jack Gibson.
If Jack is difficult of head, pun meant, Damon is pure of coronary heart and soul.
It’s one thing that unironically involves gentle a number of instances all through our half-hour chat, so we hope you take pleasure in the learn.
Aside from the puns and jokes, we focus on Jack’s future, that stunning cliffhanger, Jack’s household arcs, his fanboying over costar Danielle Savre’s directorial debut, and extra. Check it out!
Hi, Grey, How are you?
I’m good. How are you?
Well, we’re each doing higher than Jack proper now!
Yeah, completely higher.
I used to be going to joke about your title because it’s gloomy, wet, and grey right here proper now. But I promise I’ll maintain the corny jokes to myself.
No, I’m into it. Throw them at me! Jokes are my forte.
Well, first, let’s speak about Jack. Poor Jack by no means makes it out of finales with out stressing us out.
I stated the similar factor!
I do know! Why do you assume they at all times use you to go away the collection on these cliffhangers? Is it to maintain you in your toes or to maintain us on our toes since we love you a lot?
It’s an absence of with the ability to keep on his toes that’s the downside. See? I obtained dangerous jokes too.
I really like them. [Laughs]
We’ve seen just a few cases of Jack sustaining head accidents and never getting the correct assist. I needed to shake him, which might not do effectively along with his head damage. Do you assume we’re headed towards a TBI storyline or one thing in the future?
That’s fascinating. I do not know. I feel often, with footballers, they’ll begin turning into aggressive. Their mind swells towards the cranium after too many head accidents. I ponder if one thing alongside these traces would possibly occur with Jack.
I do know that he has PTSD. We do not present it a lot anymore, however I attempt to throw these little nuances in there once they aren’t writing about them. The writers are good at form of heading a technique, after which they’re going to flip one thing on its head, “Actually, we’re going to decide that Jack is a Plumber now.” [Laughs] But no, I do not know!
Ha! So you simply go in blind generally and go from there?
You don’t know. And possibly Jack will go blind as a result of of his damage. Who is aware of? [Laughs]
Oh yeah, it is one thing that they might angle for there! [Laughs]
No, however this positively opens up many potentialities. Jack places quite a bit of stake in being a firefighter. So what would occur if he developed a critical well being situation that prevented him from with the ability to try this? Can you think about him making a shift to one thing else?
Right? Look, if it may occur to anybody. It’s most likely going to occur to Jack.
Blind kittens in site visitors have higher luck than him!
Oh my gosh. It’s insane. He’s this actually nice firefighter, however he retains falling down and getting hit by issues. He’s not very coordinated. He’s additionally a horrible dancer, however that is my very own little add-on.
Jack is a bit unsteady, no pun meant. But I’ve observed he is additionally a compassionate, supportive individual to everybody else however himself. He’s struggled this season, giving himself the grace he extends others. Why is he so exhausting on himself?
I’m no clinician, however from a psychological standpoint, he is making an attempt to exude the love he wished he had gotten when he was a child. In some inadvertent approach, he has proven himself that sort of love by doing so for others, by proving to himself that he might be first rate.
Speaking of love, it seemed like he confirmed curiosity in Kate, effectively, not less than till he caught her with Theo. Should we take that as hints at a romance for them? What attracted him to her? Because I’m anxious, man. Jack’s love life is a rollercoaster.
Yeah, it is one thing else. Loads of ups and downs, no pun meant.
Yeah, she’s a cute new lady at the station who clearly has little interest in him. But he is in a bizarre transitional interval proper now.
He’s skilled quite a bit of development. But maybe subconsciously, he is seeing somebody who may need it collectively in a approach. She can do issues that he is not significantly capable of, which is to be a speaker of fact, daring, and never care an excessive amount of about what folks take into consideration her.
He could also be drawn to that. But it is also been some time for him to have any actual reference to anyone. Or he could also be slowly reverting to outdated habits. Right?
I’m betting that Kate’s coatroom kiss canceled out the crush. I did discover it fascinating that Jack was the one to seek out Theo in that compromising place, given he and Vic shared that grief kiss earlier than. I do not know if that was a deliberate factor or not.
You know what? I’ve by no means made that correlation, in order that’s catch.
It seemed like Jack deliberate to inform Vic instantly. How do you assume that may have an effect on the relationship between all of them shifting ahead?
Regardless of his previous with Vic and the way it had been rocky, particularly in direction of the finish, he does have a bond together with her that’s fairly particular as a result of of Dean. His and Vic’s kiss was water underneath the bridge as a result of they understood the place it was coming from, a spot of immense ache, and them making an attempt to alleviate that.
So I feel Theo, Jack has his relationship with him too, and so they have that kind of comparable bond and really feel answerable for the loss of life of a fellow firefighter. But Theo additionally has been a bit heavy to be round these days. So that has most likely alienated Theo to a level that basically made it simpler for Jack to say, “I don’t owe this person anything anymore.”
I feel he needs to go to Vic and instantly inform her, however on the subject of it, once they’re head to head, he could hesitate. I’m speculating right here as a result of I do not know what the writers have deliberate, however realizing Jack the approach I do, he would hesitate and understand that he wants to drag it again slightly and select his method extra correctly.
Or he might blurt it out and trigger quite a bit of ruckus: one excessive or the different. Jack’s development and that second of frustration and damage particularly getting rejected and his lack of relationship — that hit him in a selected approach.
Jack’s the wildcard proper now.
Yeah, if he had caught as much as Vic, he would’ve meant to inform her as a result of he is reactive and upset, however then refrained possibly final minute and would’ve understood that he hasn’t accomplished nice issues with relationships both.
But that is simply the fantasy I’m holding on to in order that, if something, we are able to drag the drama out slightly bit. Maybe it might be a factor that he needs to inform her, however he does not know the way.
It’s positively going to be a lot drama I can already anticipate it. Now, one of my favourite moments this season on your character was Jack’s reunion along with his foster sister. I used to be truly stunned that we did not spend extra time with it afterward.
He additionally related along with his organic sister however hasn’t met his start mother and father but.
There’s a lot ache there for him. It’s the factor that hurts him the most, not feeling needed and abandonment points.
It’s why he has these extreme relationships with girls and all of that. He’s positively been hesitant to fulfill them anyway. I’m not sure if he needs to since he is assumed they did not need him, and with the little issues which are siphoned out to us about that, I’m excited to see the place that goes.
Maybe there are even going to be some fascinating correlations in phrases of serendipity, with different folks he is aware of or different folks that may have wronged him or righted him in his life that may have some reference to the household and infiltrate his life that approach and complicates or make issues higher.
I’m speculating, however you by no means know.
Of course. There actually is a lot to discover with the character, particularly from that angle. As I stated, the reunion along with his foster sister was a fantastic, emotional, stunning second. I hope we get to see much more of that as a result of my brother has listening to loss.
Is he totally deaf or exhausting of listening to?
He is not, however I’ve different members of the family who’re. I really like seeing any storyline exploring that, placing ASL at the forefront, or casually incorporating issues like that; it is so necessary.
The Deaf group is so stunning simply by default as a result of if you use your fingers to talk, all the things appears to be like like artwork to me. It appears to be like like an interpretive dance, or they’re virtually portray in the wind or one thing. But that is at all times been one thing actually stunning to me about the group.
As human beings, one of the sole issues we wish to do is talk with one another, which is ironic as a result of we’re horrible at it, however we’re all determined to know one another and our surroundings.
And it is fascinating to me how the Deaf group, whereas unable to listen to, is commonly extra intuitive and understanding of their surroundings than the relaxation of us. I completely thought that was a fantastic second, although. I might love extra of that, too.
Following up on that, what was your favourite storyline to discover with Jack this season, and what do you hope you would possibly delve right into a bit extra subsequent season?
I’m not going to lie. At a sure level, I mesh the seasons collectively. It’s at all times one blur to me.
I do not know if the story I really like was truly final season or this season. I at all times discuss to Boris [Kodjoe], like, “You came in… wait, you came in? And he’s like, “Season two,” and I’m like, “Are you certain? That cannot be proper.”
Especially after COVID, my sense of time is totally warped.
I fully agree. It’s horrible. I’m the similar approach. The holidays and all of it, it is simply all a blur. I do not know. I’m not even totally certain what month it’s proper now. I don’t know.
Yeah, a month looks like every week to me. It’s a complete factor.
But favorites, one of my favourite scenes was in Station 19 Season 6 Episode 16; it was Danielle’s episode, truly. Danielle Savre, which by the approach, I do know Danielle’s superior, however I did not know she was that superior the place she completely kicked that episode’s ass and made it her bitch.
But I feel it is a default or a precursor with actors who additionally resolve to direct. They perceive easy methods to discuss to actors. Danielle, she’s simply so badass. I wish to put that on the market as a result of I’ve meant to speak about it, however I’ll simply do it right here. I’m at all times blown away by that individual. She’s simply so on it and conscious.
Especially after she directed her shorts after which was going to direct the episode, just a few episodes earlier than, I talked to her about photographs and stuff, and we had been one-upping one another.
I used to be like, “Well, actually, if the lighting does that, then it might conflict with this.” She’s like, “Well, not really, because the camera’s angle would be like this.”
So it was actually enjoyable to share that sort of dichotomy together with her. Directing is like science and artwork. She did not begin that way back in directing itself, like shadowing and stuff. We have nice administrators. But Danielle, her directorial debut was one of the greatest I’ve ever seen. We can all simply savor her stunning episode.
But I beloved Jack’s second with the steering wheel man. The actor is wonderful, a very pretty individual, and his spouse performs his spouse.
But that sort of a scene that he comes throughout with these senior-aged individuals who’ve gone via it, that he is looking for some kind of knowledge, some wizard on a journey to assist information and advise him on life, I really like that.
His relationship with Marsha is fantastic too. She’s his rock. That individual is instrumental in his development and serving to him really feel beloved, appreciated, revered, and supported in a approach he did not have.
But here is this man exhibiting Jack issues about himself and discussing how he navigated the world and obtained issues by holding onto hope and the concept that good issues can come again to you. It can nonetheless occur, even when it is approach later. It was a particular, profound second for Jack.
I really like Jack’s innate skill to attach with folks on calls and through emergencies. It’s one of his biggest character strengths.
Yeah, it truly is. There have been some nice ones. I keep in mind approach again with the homeless child; he noticed a lot of himself on this child and tried to be to him what he did not have. And there was the autistic child as effectively. He has these pivotal moments via these interactions with folks in his life.
It’s humorous with that final one; it resonated with me as a result of I had an analogous reference to an autistic child I met as soon as.
I used to be at a petting zoo as a result of I’m a baby, and my girlfriend at the time indulged me as a result of we had been at a pageant, and I needed to hang around with the goats and pigs as a result of it was extra attuned to my consolation degree.
But I’m simply standing there together with her, and we’re watching the animals be ridiculous. And this little boy comes as much as me, and he simply holds my hand, and I look over. For some purpose, it was so stunning to me. He was smiling, and he simply needed to carry my hand.
And I checked out my girlfriend, who was tearing up and smiling. And nothing in that second was corrupted or ruined by the world or life. He was simply so current, taking all of it in and having fun with himself.
But that second actually will get me. So after we do issues like that in the present the place you are having these connections with folks, they’re simply so stunning, have a lot weight, and are so pivotal in life and remind us how necessary connection is and group.
I really like these moments, too, and the way significant they’re. That’s a fantastic, touching expertise. Clearly, it is one thing you could have in widespread along with your character. He should have actually picked up in your good spirit and comforting vitality and related with you at that second.
His brother got here up apologizing, I suppose he is used to dragging him away from folks, and I’m like, “It’s fine!” To me, it was such a candy, pure second.
***This Interview was edited for size and readability.
It’s at all times greatest to go away issues slightly higher, extra hopeful, and brighter than you discovered them, so I can not assume of a greater place to conclude this interview.
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