But just the idea of that surprised me.
But it just didn’t turn out that way.
It was very difficult to get a cruise ship.
Angela Bassett and Peter Krause on ‘9-1-1’ season 7.Chris Willard/Disney
No cruise line wanted to be associated with a capsized ship, which I guess I can understand.
Well it all made for a very dramatic three episodes.
So many massive sets, so much rising water.
The water’s not actually rising, the set is sinking!
The set was built on a gimbal inside a water tank.
And the casino set….
But that’s Peter up there.
Peter is climbing across those ropes up there that delighted me.
The other thing that absolutely delighted me was that Angela Bassett was game for anything.
She went into that water.
Whenthe bomb goes offin episode 2, and she goes flying against that wall, she actually did it!
There’s a stunt woman in there too, but Angela, she was game for anything.
Was there anything you wanted to do with this disaster that you weren’t able to?
There was one scene that I did have to cut, that I was sad to cut.
It was when Wes [played by Denzel Johnson] opens the door and that fireball comes out.
It was very Shelley Winters [inThe Poseidon Adventure.]
But that was a moment that I was sad to lose.
So now that Bobby and Athena are rescued, what can you tease about the rest of the season?
I just finished locking episode 4 and I was like, “Hmm, there’s no natural disasters.
Things aren’t blowing up all over the place.”
But there is theBachelorcrossover, so we have that to look forward to.
This interview has been edited for length and clarity.
9-1-1airs Thursdays at 8 p.m. ET/PT on ABC.
