9-1-1 followers have feverishly shipped Buck and Eddie all through the present’s tenure, they usually’re in good firm with the actors themselves.
“I’m open to it. You understand, there’s clearly stuff there and there’s a chemistry between us,” Oliver Stark, who performs Evan “Buck” Buckley on the ABC drama, stated throughout the Friday, April 19, episode of the Zach Sang Present. “Yeah, if it goes there then I feel it might be [something I would do].”
Stark’s Buck has been a firefighting staple since season 1 of 9-1-1. Eddie Diaz (performed by Ryan Guzman) joined the Station 118 crew the next season, rapidly putting up a friendship with Buck. Whereas their bond has at all times been platonic so far, many followers sense a deeper chemistry.
Buck just lately got here out throughout season 7 after having his first same-sex kiss with LAFD helicopter pilot Tommy (Lou Ferrigno Jr.). Whereas Buck and Tommy’s romance is at the moment enjoying out on 9-1-1, Stark, 32, was requested on Friday about his hopes for a possible future Buck-Eddie relationship.
“It really works two methods, proper? I positively see that as a possible story,” Stark stated. “I don’t know what’s going to occur with Eddie’s character. However then I additionally assume it’s important to tread rigorously as a result of I don’t need to inform this story the place [a] man comes out and now all his male pals are like ‘Aw, so what you bought a crush on me?’ Like, I need to watch out of telling that story.”
Regardless of treading rigorously, Stark remains to be leaving the door open for Buck and Eddie to get collectively.
“I get requested, ‘Will it occur?’ [all the time], not, ‘Do I need it to occur?’” he stated. “However when individuals ask me, ‘Is it going to occur?’ I’m at all times like, ‘I don’t know. I don’t write the present.’ However so far as ‘Do I need it to?’ I additionally don’t know. Definitely, I’m open to it if that’s what [showrunner] Tim [Minear] decides [is] probably the most trustworthy solution to proceed telling the story.”
Guzman, for his half, just lately informed Us Weekly that Buck’s popping out journey has made his bond with Eddie “stronger than ever.”
“I feel the final word objective was to indicate that the connection between Buck and Eddie will stay,” Guzman, 37, informed Us earlier this month. “As a result of now we’ve unveiled this new weak aspect of Buck, and final season we bought to unveil this new aspect, weak aspect of Eddie. So the connection is simply that rather more muy sympatico.”
9-1-1 airs on ABC Thursdays at 8 p.m. ET.