Bassett who plays Bobbys wife, Sgt.
We gotta do something really dramatic and someone’s going to die,'" Bassett recalled.
“And then there’s a pause, of course.
Angela Bassett as Sgt. Athena Grant on ‘9-1-1’.Credit:Christopher Willard/Disney
And I said, ‘Is it… Athena?
Is it me?!'”
“I started going through the list: ‘Is it Hen?
Angela Bassett as Athena and Peter Krause as Buck on ‘9-1-1’.Christopher Willard/Disney
Is it Chimney?'”
she said, referring toAisha HindsandKenneth Choi’s characters.
because it was inconceivable to me that it was Bobby."
The decision took her completely by surprise.
“I didn’t see that coming.
None of us saw that coming.”
He then asked Buck to get Athena, who supported him in his final moments through a glass window.
“I just remember coming to set and asking everyone, ‘Where’s Bobby?
Where’s Bobby?’
Peter Krause as Bobby and Angela Bassett as Athena on ‘9-1-1’.Christopher Willard/Disney
‘He’s upstairs.’
“And we just looked at each other.
You know when your eyes just lock and you don’t know what to say?
And you just bear hug each other and then you just shake your head.”
So that’s some measure of grace a small measure.”
Bassett isn’t the only one who had a hard time letting Krause and Bobby go.
Maybe they’ll change their minds.
Maybe theyll reverse course."
He noted that he wept “for like three or four minutes” while watching Thursday’s episode.
“I was laughing at myself saying, ‘I don’t know what is happening!
I know this isn’t real!
Why am I acting like this?’
But it was devastating to me.”
9-1-1returns to ABC on May 1.
