Paul practically misplaced his life when he suffered a coronary heart assault on ‘9-1-1: Lone Star.’ HL spoke EXCLUSIVELY with Brian Michael Smith about Paul’s subsequent chapter, the way forward for Paul and Marjan’s friendship, and extra.
Paul was left offended and devastated when he woke with a defibrillator implanted into his chest. Despite the fact that a physician had beforehand instructed Paul that he would doubtless die with no pacemaker, Paul refused. After struggling a coronary heart assault, Paul was found by Marjan and rushed to the hospital. Paul lashed out at Marjan when he discovered that she didn’t cease the docs from implanting the defibrillator. HollywoodLife obtained EXCLUSIVE scoop from 9-1-1: Lone Star’sBrian Michael Smith about what’s subsequent for Paul.
“He’s processing this massive life shift. I feel the preliminary shock, no pun supposed, of waking up within the hospital with it in, that’s sort of the place we left him,” Brian stated. “Now he has time as a result of he has to get well from that surgical procedure and what meaning for his life. He’s going to need to resolve what he’s going to do afterward. I really feel like after we decide up with him within the subsequent episode, we're watching him undergo this strategy of, okay, I wish to get myself bodily again collectively, however am I mentally again collectively as nicely to type of course of what’s completely different about my physique and my life?”
Brian famous that Paul was so “upset” when he awoke “as a result of he simply felt like he didn’t have a alternative. His alternative was taken away about one thing that has to do along with his physique. I really feel like he's any individual who has a trans expertise and has a deeper sense of violation of getting decisions about his physique being made for him whereas he’s unconscious.”
Paul and Marjan are the definition of friendship objectives, so seeing their relationship hit a low level was powerful to look at. Brian admitted that Paul was “utterly caught off guard” by what occurred after his coronary heart assault, and Marjan took the brunt of his anger.
“There was a way of betrayal that wasn’t essentially logical, however that’s what he was experiencing on the time, and he or she was there for it a bit,” Brian continued. “And within the subsequent episode, we see the fallout of that. It’s actually painful to look at your pal practically die and have a lot concern for him, after which her worst worry got here true. She discovered him unconscious and unresponsive on the ground. That was so much for her to undergo. So I feel for her to have him reply to her in that method after she was in some methods traumatized will probably be so much to beat. I feel for him coming to phrases along with his personal habits to type of work his method again to that friendship after which coming to phrases with the way it feels to him about being betrayed by his journey or die. I feel he hoped that she would arise for him. Everyone knows that except Marjan had energy of legal professional there’s not a lot you are able to do, however simply sort of feeling helpless and really aggressively wishing that you may have completed one thing goes to play into his anger in direction of her. I’m hoping that as we undergo the subsequent episode, he can let go of that anger and see her viewpoint and take the steps essential to begin to heal that relationship as a result of it’s necessary to him. It’s necessary to her. I feel simply as a lot because the followers need them to maintain that bond and that lovely friendship that they've, they wish to as nicely. However how do you're employed your method again when you may have that explosive and painful dialog?”
The March 14 episode will observe Paul “actually coming to phrases with the truth that his life has modified.” Nonetheless, he does have “extra energy over the subsequent chapter that he’s permitting himself to hunt. He’s obtained to decide on the course of his restoration.”
The actor acknowledged that within the wake of his falling out with Marjan, Paul is maintaining what he’s coping with to himself. “I feel he doesn’t wish to be weak. I feel he has a notion of this as a weak spot. It’s not true, however I feel that’s sort of how he’s psychologically responding to it proper now,” Brian continued. “However I feel he doesn’t need anyone to know and doesn’t wish to share it. He doesn’t wish to be weak proper now. The one individual he would really feel comfy with being weak is Marjan. He’s undoubtedly in a spot the place he’s navigating one thing that’s new for him and tough for him, and he’s doing it by himself, which makes it that a lot tougher.”
Nonetheless, he teased that his 9-1-1: Lone Star will probably be there for him. “He's a part of a household. Even when he’s not keen to succeed in out, there are folks in the home who know who he's and you may anticipate them to step up and attain out to him,” Brian stated. 9-1-1: Lone Star airs Mondays at 8 p.m. on FOX.