(L-R) Angela Bassett and Peter Krause at the ‘9-1-1’ ABC premire event held at Spring Place on March 11, 2024 in Beverly Hills, California.Photo:Gregg DeGuire/Variety via Getty
Gregg DeGuire/Variety via Getty
“That wasn’t the idea, but Tim … just seeing the way it was playing out, my arena, his body and word to these individual worlds and how they collided and that we were the adults, the grownups … that’s where the story and the playing of it inspired the journey,” she explains.
Bassett also reveals how her friendship with Krause has been able to transcend off screen over the course of their run on the procedural.
“He’s so calm,” she says with a smile. “He’s very sweet, very professional. Likes to have a good time, but he’s just real, honest. He’s thoughtful.”
(L-R) Angela Bassett and Peter Krause on ‘9-1-1’.FOX via Getty
FOX via Getty
Of the entire cast, Bassett says they’re “all very warm, very nice, humble individuals.”
“We all get along, we all work hard and we all very appreciative of what, of others and what they bring to the table,” she adds. “So it’s a great, great working environment and that’s a good thing. It’s long hours, so it helps that we can crack each other up during the downtime.”
Krause returns Bassett’s sweet sentiments and tells PEOPLE that their roles as a “committed couple” have been nothing short of “fantastic.”
“We play with each other a lot,” he says. “There’s a lot of stuff that’s not scripted that we do with each other. It’s fun joking with each other and things like that.”
The honeymoon from hell won’t be the only action in the season premiere. According to the official logline for the episode, a fighter jet also “traps a civilian,” and an “unusual” incident forces a couple together.
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9-1-1season 7 premieres Thursday at 8 p.m. ET on ABC.
source: people.com
