From left: Randy Flagler, Joe Minoso, Miranda Rae Mayo, David Eigenberg, Yuri Sardarov and Annie Ilonzeh as Emily Foster. And what better way than to get rid of a beloved character who is in many ways the character that nobody would expect to go, the comedic relief?Ī scene from NBC’s “Chicago Fire” when the gang from Firehouse 51 attends a Blackhawks game. Q: It’s unique to reach that kind of financial stability and it allows you to make decisions.Ī: It gives me so much latitude to do whatever I want.Īnd going into Season 8, we’d done 180 episodes of television and you need a kickstart - you need something that will get the audience reinvested. This is house money that I’ve been playing with for nearly a decade. And this is casino money that I have (laughs). So I started getting this inkling of: Man, it’s been nearly eight years of doing the same thing. And that’s sort of how my family has gracefully has operated for a long time. The only constant my parents ever had to deal with in their life was change. And they had to give all that up to come to America. My grandfather was a musician, my grandmother was a singer. Being Armenian in Azerbaijan at the turn of the ’90s was not a very welcome situation. I’m the first-born (Sardarov was 2 when he came to the U.S.), and in many ways I’m the oldest child in our large community of Russian and Armenian immigrants - my brother Nick is 11 years younger than me - and I’m not supposed to be an actor. My parents came here from Azerbaijan with nothing. Q: That sounds like you had started to think it was time to move on.Ī: You know, I’ll put it this way: My family and I, we’re refugees. But I just want to give you a big hug and say thanks.” I don’t know where my head is at concerning the show and I don’t know where the network’s head is at concerning the show. (Haas and the writers are based in LA.) We hadn’t gotten picked up at that point for Season 8 and I said, “I don’t know what’s happening next season and I don’t know what’s happening with my character or the show, but I want to say thank you so much for everything because this has been incredible. I was a boy when I started and in many ways thanks to the cast and thanks to guys like Christian (Stolte, who plays Mouch) and Eamonn (Walker, who plays Chief Boden) and David (Eigenberg, who plays Herrmann), I got to walk away a man.ĭerek (Haas, the showrunner) and I are very close and at the end of last season he came and did one of his visits to Chicago. I got this show when I was 23 and I’m 31 now. Q: How was the conversation broached that this would be Otis’ end?Ī: In many ways, it was time.
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