'The Resident' EP spoke EXCLUSIVELY with HL concerning the season 6 premiere, the Billie/Conrad/Cade love triangle, Ian's arc having an influence on 'every little thing,' and the upcoming a hundredth episode.
The Resident kicked off season 6 with a number of developments out and in of the hospital. AJ, Leela, Padma, and Devon acquired wrapped up in a medical disaster with Padma’s twins. In the meantime, we lastly realized that Conrad is courting Cade after final season’s cliffhanger.
HollywoodLife acquired EXCLUSIVE scoop from government producer Amy Holden Jones about what this implies for Billie’s emotions for Conrad now that he’s with Cade. She hinted that “emotions have a tendency to come back out at weddings,” and KitBell’s nuptials are developing within the present’s milestone a hundredth episode. Learn our Q&A beneath:
You had me going there within the premiere. I assumed Conrad was with Billie, nevertheless it seems he’s courting Cade. In relation to Conrad and Cade are we going to get to see that relationship evolve and develop inside and outside the hospital this season?
Amy Holden Jones: We're going to see that, nevertheless it’s not the one story for both of them. Conrad has a number of story with Gigi and, after all, his sufferers. Cade has a really huge story along with her father. However sure, we're. At the start, the premiere doesn’t actually let you know that a lot about what the character of that relationship is. You’re going to begin to see it huge within the second episode, the place you'll work out far more about who they're collectively and what they're. Like all relationships, you don’t know the place it’s going to finish. They need to study to be collectively and what it means to be collectively. How that goes ahead will likely be decided within the season. When persons are collectively, it’s not a provided that that’s the tip. There are challenges, and there are questions. You simply don’t know the place it’s going to go. However they undoubtedly have chemistry you’ll see that in episode 2.
We additionally realized that Billie didn’t come ahead along with her emotions for Conrad, no less than to his face. We see that scene between Billie and AJ within the again half of the premiere. What does this imply for Billie? She’s solely going to have the ability to maintain in these emotions for therefore lengthy.
Amy Holden Jones: That scene could be very attention-grabbing to me. And, after all, I wrote it. It’s each about Billie and Conrad, and it’s about Raptor and Billie and their rising friendship. I feel that his concept might be proper. She was Nic’s greatest good friend, which is sophisticated and true. Conrad didn’t know this was an obstacle to their going ahead. So it’s not clear if he knew whether or not he would have made the identical selection. Each girls really are viable selections because the casting of each of them changed into a bonanza for us. They’re each great. So whether or not AJ is correct or not about her future is but to be seen. However their relationship’s additionally with one another, Billie and Cade. It’s not solely predicated on their emotions about Conrad. Additionally they have an arc, which performs out extra within the second half of the season of how they relate to one another as individuals no matter anyone’s courting. It’s all sophisticated for positive.
In relation to Conrad, we all know there are emotions on each side with Cade and Billie. Will we learn the way Conrad views these relationships?
Amy Holden Jones: Oh, sure. You’ll see his emotions about Billie are sophisticated. The massive episode is our a hundredth episode — the marriage — and emotions have a tendency to come back out of weddings. There’s rather a lot to be realized, however solutions will not be going to be easy. It’s not like he’s going to study every little thing earlier than the tip of the season or determine all of it out. The journey that he and Cade go on additionally collectively, is unrelated to Billie however associated to her father as a result of Ian’s story is a really huge arc and an enormous theme of the season of each his father-daughter relationship and what occurs to somebody who's the kid of somebody with an dependancy. There’s the entire codependency query and the ache of loving somebody who’s an addict. His arc impacts every little thing. It impacts the hospital additionally as a result of docs have two instances the speed of dependancy of the final inhabitants. Right here you've individuals who have spent 8 to 10 to 12 years typically or extra coaching to do that factor they do and infrequently it’s a health care provider who's extremely helpful and good who falls into this entice. Do you simply reduce that asset off? Habit is a illness, and but you possibly can’t have a harmful physician. So the place does that go for the hospital, and the place does it go for Cade? What should she find out about coping with this can be a huge story of the season and the way Conrad reacts to that and helps or doesn’t assist with it's to be seen. He’s walked that journey earlier than with Nic, whose sister and father each had points. How will he deal with it as a problem as nicely? It’s extremely fertile territory, particularly within the fingers of Andrew McCarthy. I’ve seen it right through 5 episodes. He’s phenomenal.
Simply when Cade and Ian take a number of steps ahead, they wind up taking some steps again. She noticed him popping tablets at work. Will we see her confront him about that in some unspecified time in the future?
Amy Holden Jones: She's going to. You’ll see it quickly. However though you noticed him take tablets, they may have been nutritional vitamins. She is burdened with what everyone is. Most individuals on this world have had a great good friend or a sibling or a member of the family of some type — youngster, father or mother, no matter — who’s had dependancy points. It’s so cellular. It’s exhausting. It’s exhausting to seek out anybody who hasn’t identified somebody or been concerned with somebody or had a member of the family who’s had these issues. That journey is such a tough one the place as soon as somebody has slipped like that and had the issue, then the one who loves them is also considering, are they being overprotective? Are they being smothering and questioning when there’s nothing there? Or is the addict attempting to persuade them of that? It’s all very sophisticated. It’s fairly a journey for Cade and Kaley [Ronayne] takes it on in methods which can be really astonishing and fantastic.
Padma had a detailed name on this episode and had very dangerous surgical procedure to avoid wasting the twins. Given the problems which have already arisen, how is that this going to bond Raptor and Padma going ahead?
Amy Holden Jones: The larger subject actually is definitely a narrative of postpartum points. It’s a Padma story. Her medical journey shouldn't be over. The shock and the stress of what she goes by will consider all through the season and the upcoming episodes. Right here’s a happy-go-lucky character who immediately has to face the form of issues a completely grownup mother faces. As well as, after the premiere, she’s realized to really feel actual worry and know that issues can go mistaken. We wished to do a post-partum story the place a personality had challenges, together with melancholy. It’s all of the extra heart-rending when that occurs to a free spirit like Padma, and the impact this has on Leela and Raptor makes for a major story that we cope with within the season. So it’s in a method much less of a romance with Padma and Raptor than it's dealing with this medical disaster.
With Leela and Devon, they’ve clearly taken a second probability on their relationship. What does their relationship appear to be in season 6?
Amy Holden Jones: As a pair, they’re uncomplicatedly completely happy and recommitted to one another. I feel they’re transferring in the direction of some extent the place we’ll see them married as nicely, however they every have challenges of their lives. Leela could be very a lot concerned in serving to Padma. You probably have an an identical twin sister who has this type of tough journey, she’s very tied up with that. However she’s additionally on the journey of transitioning to being an attending doctor, not a resident, which is able to occur throughout the season. How she will get there and the way she overcomes her personal difficulties will likely be a part of her story as nicely. Devon’s considerably associated to all that in supporting her, however he additionally has very critical medical tales as a result of he runs the medical trials, and people consider various methods all through the season. They in the end consider with Bell and his MS, which is a really huge story for Devon.
I do know you touched a little bit bit on it earlier, however what can we count on from the a hundredth episode?
Amy Holden Jones: It’s a bang-up episode and, after all, options the marriage of Equipment and Bell that we’ve all been ready for, which needs to be totally different from the opposite weddings we’ve seen. This isn't the primary wedding ceremony for each of them and but is enormously romantic. It additionally includes an enormous medical story for Bell. It has a number of stuff occurring main as much as the marriage.