'SkyMed' star Morgan Holmstrom spoke EXCLUSIVELY about her hopes for season 2, Crystal and Jeremy's difficult relationship, and showcasing indigenous characters on TV.
SkyMed is in contrast to any medical present you’ve seen earlier than. The Paramount+ sequence follows the highs and lows of nurses and pilots flying air ambulances in distant Northern Canada. This crew has to make high-stakes medical rescues and keep alert, all whereas 20,000 toes within the air. HollywoodLife spoke EXCLUSIVELY with Morgan Holmstrom, who performs Crystal, about why she was drawn to the sequence.
“For one, it’s very completely different. I grew up loving medical exhibits, too. I watched Home, and I watched Gray’s. I watched type of all of them, particularly with my dad, rising up,” Morgan mentioned. “I already had a love for these exhibits. Once I learn it, initially, I used to be like, oh, it’s a medical present however within the air. That has its personal types of cool challenges, and it makes it very distinctive, so I used to be already very intrigued by that. Once I learn Crystal, she was simply this tremendous robust, badass nurse who simply type of lives up north and takes the nursing world by the reins. She’s type of that veteran nurse. I actually appreciated that about her. I actually appreciated that she was robust and assured and only a badass indigenous girl.”
Along with the skilled lives of those characters, SkyMed additionally explores their private lives. Crystal has a sophisticated (and generally romantic) relationship along with her childhood pal Jeremy. Morgan weighed in about how she feels issues had been left between Crystal and Jeremy on the finish of the primary season.
“I really feel prefer it was coming,” Morgan admitted. “I do suppose that there’s lots to play with for a season 2 in the event that they renewed that relationship as a result of they've a lot historical past with one another. They actually had been one another’s childhood greatest pals, and I feel that having these varieties of folks in your life, it comes with all the highs and all the lows. We’ll see what occurs.”
She identified that each Crystal and Jeremy have some “rising as much as do” earlier than they need to circle again to something romantic. “Though Crystal might not admit that I really feel like she has some rising as much as do. Jeremy undoubtedly has his personal rising as much as do. So possibly sooner or later, it might work out. We’ll see,” she teased.
Crystal’s friendship with fellow co-worker Hayley is likely one of the highlights of the sequence. Crystal is by Hayley’s facet as she will get a mastectomy within the first season. “Once I first began speaking with Julie [Puckrin], who was the showrunner and wrote the present, she actually wished to emphasise that feminine friendship and have that theme all through the present that these are two ladies which might be going to lean on one another and have one another’s backs,” Morgan instructed HollywoodLife.
One of many many points of SkyMed that's so distinctive is the way it brings indigenous characters like Crystal to the forefront. The magnitude of the illustration will not be misplaced on Morgan. “It’s so necessary to know that when you have somebody mirrored onscreen that appears such as you, it means every thing. I do know that from myself. I’m Métis and Filipina and that’s one thing I by no means noticed onscreen,” Morgan mentioned.
Crystal and Jeremy converse Nêhiyawêwin, the Cree language, at sure factors within the present. Morgan identified that Crystal was written as a Cree-Métis girl. “We had an elder on set, and we had information keepers to assist us study that language,” Morgan revealed. “We acquired our recordings, and we had been in a position to follow so we had a variety of assist in that means for studying language as a result of it’s not the language that I’ve realized.”
Morgan praised her showrunners and the writing group for his or her inclusiveness. “I've to provide props to them as a result of that they had somebody within the writing room for each single individual, any type of neighborhood that you just noticed, whether or not that’s the queer neighborhood, whether or not that’s the indigenous neighborhood, South Asian neighborhood, whoever it's, there was somebody that might converse to that have. I feel that’s so essential in movie to have somebody that may converse to that for these folks,” Morgan famous. SkyMed season 1 is now obtainable on Paramount+.