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9-1-1: Lone Star’s Tommy Vega can have an uphill battle with Trevor Parks after that romantic season 5 proposal — however will they be successful?
“There’s gonna be quite a lot of turmoil adopted by revelation,” Gina Torres, who performs paramedic chief Tommy, completely instructed Us Weekly of Tommy and Trevor’s (D.B. Woodside) relationship this season forward of the season premiere.
Through the Monday, September 30, episode of the Fox drama, Tommy proposed to Trevor after making a enjoyable TikTok video with their daughters. “Trevor Parks, what would you say if I requested you to be my husband?” Tommy mentioned. He replied, “I’d say sure … however there’s only one small factor.”
The “small factor” is definitely quite a bit larger than you’d count on. Trevor mentioned the one means he can marry Tommy is that if his ex-wife — the mom of his youngster — approves of the union. (It’s a part of their custody settlement!)
Torres, 55, instructed Us that Tommy’s expertise with Trevor’s ex-wife will likely be “comparable” to her highs and lows together with his daughter in seasons prior. (Tommy needed to show herself to the preacher’s daughter earlier than Trevor would significantly date her — and it wasn’t simple.)
“There’s a really messy state of affairs with the ex-wife and the kid,” Torres teased in the course of the Fox Fall Press Day final month. “And what we uncover is that they do love one another very a lot and so they perceive that parenting is one thing to be taken significantly.”
Torres famous that assembly the ex-wife is “actually essential” in “forging” a wholesome relationship for everybody, together with Tommy and Trevor. “It’s really like a relationship,” she added. “And arduous choices should be made.”
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Whereas Torres performed coy about whether or not Tommy and Trevor will make it down the aisle in the course of the present’s fifth and remaining season, she instructed Us that she thinks the paramedic is able to be married once more after dropping her husband, Charles, in season 3.
“I feel she is prepared for that subsequent step,” Torres mentioned. “She’s been in a position to respectfully mourn Charles [and] on the similar time making an attempt to discover who she is now at this half in her life.”
She reminded Us that followers have seen Tommy “undergo a lot emotionally, bless her coronary heart,” that it’s time she places herself first.
“She’s already a badass at work. She works actually arduous at coming house and being there for her daughters,” Torres defined. “And she or he’s actually making an attempt to simply fulfill that a part of her that she wants as a lady. To simply categorical herself as a lady.”
Whereas Torres is hoping for a fortunately ever after with Tommy, she teased viewers must be ready for her “most difficult season” but.
“Maintain onto your butt,” she joked. “If you happen to’re Tommy lover, we’re gonna undergo it this season.”
9-1-1: Lone Star airs on Fox Mondays at 8 p.m. ET.
With reporting by Sarah Jones