“There’s a kind of giddiness,” Daniel Kyri (Ritter) told NBC Insider about what it’s like filming the show. “There’s a back-to-school feeling coming back and just getting the chance to do this again. It’s not lost on us how sort of rare this air kind of is. To be able to come back and tell these stories and to do it with people that you respect and you love working with.”
That group of people is changing slightly this season with the addition of Dermot Mulroney’s Chief Dom Pascal, who’s taking the helm at 51. If that’s not intriguing enough, we still have many cliffhangers left to address from Season 12. What’s the deal with Severide’s secret brother? Are Severide and Stella (Miranda Rae Mayo) on solid ground? Will Violet (Hanako Greensmith) and Sam Carver (Jake Lockett) get together for real?
“We’ve got some new faces coming in Season 13, and there is some active clashing going on between characters that will leave our audience wondering who’s right and who’s wrong in these situations and interactions…,” Kyri added. “To see how our characters either fall in line or kind of resist is going to provide some exciting heat this season for fans. So stay tuned for that because things get explosive.”
Read, below, some thoughts from Chicago Fire showrunner Andrea Newman on what’s to come on the show.
Chicago Fire showrunner Andrea Newman talks Season 13
The entire fire station sits in a room
Violet Mikami (Hanako Greensmith), Novak (Jocelyn Hudon), Sam Carver (Jake Lockett), Chief Dom Pascal (Dermot Mulroney), Stella Kidd (Miranda Rae Mayo), Christopher Herrmann (David Eichenberg), and Tony (Anthony Ferraris) in Season 13 Episode 1 of Chicago Fire. Photo: Peter Gordon/NBC
NBC Insider: Now that everyone’s back on set, what are the vibes like?
Andrea Newman: It’s been an incredibly exciting beginning, and Dermot arriving is part of that. Having a new boss on the set, it’s a little earthquake in terms of all the character dynamics. But it’s also like hitting a refresh button… It feels like a whole new wave of things are coming on that we haven’t seen before, so everybody’s excited about that.
What can fans expect from Season 13 of Chicago Fire?
Thirteen seasons in, and we have a new boss for the first time. We’ve changed leadership in the house, so I just think there are a lot of new character dynamics that we haven’t seen before. He’s coming in definitely not trying to be Chief Boden [Eamonn Walker] and wanting to carve his own path there.
The first shift, he says, “I’m not Chief Boden, I’m not trying to, and there’s going to be some new rules around the firehouse.” So we know right away that there are changes to come. And how everybody reacts to them is gonna be a lot of fun to watch over the season.
