The actor got to reassure his costars that his firefighter won’t be dying “anytime soon.” 9-1-1 fans worried when last week’s episode ended with the 118 desperately working to revive Buck after the firefighter was struck by lightning. But behind the scenes, the cast was worried about their costar Oliver Stark as well.
The worry started with Stark himself, who found out about his character’s latest brush with death in a phone call with 9-1-1 showrunner Kristen Reidel.
“She called me and said, ‘Look, there’s something that has been in the works for a while and I want to give you a heads up now that it’s for sure happening.’ I said, ‘Okay, great. That sounds exciting.’ And she said, ‘Uh, you are gonna die.’ I said, ‘Uh, oh. Okay,’” the actor recalls to EW. “And then she quickly added, ‘Not forever, obviously.’ And I said to her, ‘Is that obvious?’ And she said, ‘Yes. To me, that’s absolutely obvious. You’re not going anywhere.’ So, thankfully, I did get a heads up.”:max_bytes(150000):strip_icc():format(webp)/911-610-030623-01-e0d6ef371659443fa9aec9e45682f886.jpg)
But, Stark adds, “who didn’t get a heads up was the rest of the cast and crew. So, after they sent out the script, I had many texts and calls saying, ‘Buck is dead?!’ People calling me asking, ‘Are you leaving the show?!’ Which I got to tell them gleefully, ‘Not anytime soon.’”
