Nick Gehlfuss is rather like Us — reeling over Dr. Dean Archer being revealed as the daddy of Dr. Hannah Asher's child on Chicago Med. However what is going to occur when Hannah's ex-boyfriend, Dr. Will Halstead, finds out?
“He definitely makes his ideas identified about Hannah and Archer and this information, this bomb of a information,” Gehlfuss, 40, solely instructed Us Weekly forward of the Wednesday, October 8, episode, which can mark the return of his character, Will Halstead.
“Let's simply say followers of the relationships shall be very glad with what transpires with Will and Hannah, amongst different issues that I can't essentially say at this second,” he added.
Gehlfuss promised Will's reunion with ex Hannah (Jessy Schram) amid her being pregnant is “going to be so awkward and completely tense at occasions, after which lovely and emotional.”
Nick Gehlfuss as Dr. Will Halstead and Jessy Schram as Dr. Hannah Asher in ‘Chicago Med'. George Burns Jr/NBC (2)
Will and Hannah had an on the spot flirtation once they met throughout season 5 of the NBC sequence. By season 6, they have been a pair however after Hannah had a drug relapse, she determined to go away Chicago and go to rehab.
On the time, Hannah requested Will to go together with her, however he opted to remain in Chicago and their romantic relationship got here to an finish.
Gehlfuss exited Chicago Med after the season 8 finale, which aired in Might 2023. Through the episode, Will left the Windy Metropolis and landed in Seattle the place his ex-fiancée, Dr. Natalie Manning (Torrey DeVitto), and her son Owen (Frankie DeMaio), meet him, seemingly confirming they're again collectively.
Hannah, in the meantime, dated Dr. Mitch Ripley (Luke Mitchell) on and off throughout season 9 and 10 earlier than discovering throughout the season 10 finale in Might that she is pregnant. Through the season 11 premiere on October 1, Hannah revealed that her longtime greatest good friend and ally Dr. Archer (Steven Weber) is the daddy — and never Ripley like many assumed.
Jessy Schram as Dr. Hannah Asher and Nick Gehlfuss as Dr. Will Halstead in ‘Chicago Med'. George Burns Jr/NBC
Whereas some followers have been shocked that Archer, who is far older than Hannah, is the daddy of her youngster, Gehlfuss instructed Us that it wasn't that huge of a stretch. (Hannah and Archer have determined to coparent the newborn, however as “buddies.”)
“I didn't see it coming, however I'm not stunned. I feel that I had thought they could have gotten intimate as a result of they have been confiding in one another in such a approach. However did I do know that he was going to be the daddy of her child? No,” Gehlfuss confessed. “I used to be like, ‘Wow. OK.' I feel I discovered that information just about earlier than I performed the scene with Hannah, so I bought to make use of all of that.”
Romances have run excessive within the Windy Metropolis since Chicago Hearth's 2012 debut and the addition of Chicago P.D. in 2014 and Chicago Med in 2015. Thank You! You've got efficiently subscribed. Subscribe to newsletters Please enter a sound e mail. Subscribe By signing up, I comply with the Phrases and Privateness Coverage and to obtain […]
He famous that his character's return — for a two-episode arch — was so much like “catching up” along with his previous buddies. “It was only a great reunion,” the actor stated.
Whereas followers should wait and see how Will and Hannah work together on Wednesday's episode, Gehlfuss instructed Us that the majority of his cameo this season is centered round Will's personal parenthood journey.
“Will is in father mode making an attempt to determine his household dynamic,” Gehlfuss stated of Will's life since leaving Gaffney Chicago Medical Heart. “I feel his relationship with Natalie has been nice, in all probability by the mere undeniable fact that they haven't been working on the identical hospital. I think about she's at a youngsters's hospital particularly, and he's at an emergency division elsewhere. However there's been a change, and his dynamic with Owen has been very tense.”
The TV star defined that Will's try to “clean issues out” with Owen ends in him bringing Natalie's son to Chicago for a “boy's weekend.” Issues get dicey after the pair cease on the hospital on their option to a Chicago Bears recreation.
“I feel Will's going house to determine his new house in a approach. I don't know if he is aware of that, however I feel that's a part of it,” Gehlfuss teased. “Definitely, to only get away from Seattle and attempt to restore some issues. It's a real boy's weekend, and it definitely will get interrupted.”
Gehlfuss returns to Chicago Med on NBC Wednesday, October 8, at 8 p.m. ET. His character's story line will proceed on Wednesday, October 15, at 8 p.m. ET.
You'll additionally have the ability to catch Gehlfuss in one other Dick Wolf present subsequent 12 months when CIA premieres on CBS with Gehlfuss taking part in a “by-the-book, seasoned and sensible” FBI agent alongside Tom Ellis' “rule-breaking unfastened cannon” CIA agent.
