‘The Resident’ EP Reveals Season 7 Plans & What He Knows About The Show’s Fate (Exclusive)

The Resident ended its sixth play connected a hopeful note. Conrad yet said “I emotion you” to Billie, and Devon popped the question to Leela. Bell besides revealed he’s taking a permission of absence, portion Ian was welcomed backmost to Chastain.

For The Resident enforcement shaper Andrew Chapman, determination is plentifulness of communicative near to archer with the beloved doctors astatine Chastain. The EP is hopeful that the FOX bid volition beryllium picked up for play 7. He spoke EXCLUSIVELY with HollywoodLife astir what helium knows regarding the show’s aboriginal and what would beryllium successful store adjacent season.

Billie and Conrad successful ‘The Resident.’ (FOX)

The amusement hasn’t picked up for play 7 yet. Did you constitute this household envisioning that it could beryllium a bid finale?
Andrew Chapman: We talked astir this a batch due to the fact that it’s precisely what you conscionable said. We don’t cognize whether it volition beryllium a play finale oregon a bid finale, truthful we tried to constitute an occurrence that could conceivably service arsenic both. We knew evidently that it was going to beryllium a play finale, truthful we wanted to necktie up thing that we felt was truly thematically important for play 6. But fixed that the aboriginal is unknown, we besides felt similar this was a small spot of some ways. It could enactment arsenic a bid finale if we had to person it. Obviously, we don’t privation it to beryllium that way. We don’t know. But it has the imaginable to enactment that way.

Have you heard anything? Is the prognosis good? 
Andrew Chapman: We wholly don’t know. The existent information is, I don’t deliberation Fox knows. They’re waiting to spot however their shows do. They’re waiting to spot what the aboriginal looks like. I don’t know. We won’t cognize until April oregon May.

There’s truthful overmuch communicative to research successful different season. Bell is taking a permission of lack to enactment successful Devon’s MS trial. Would Bruce Greenwood conceivably beryllium backmost full-time, conscionable not successful the operating room?
Andrew Chapman: No, I don’t deliberation Bruce Greenwood would beryllium backmost full-time. We’ve been talking to him, and there’s a batch of worldly going connected successful his life. He’s expressed his desires astir however overmuch helium wants to work, truthful I deliberation that helium would travel backmost part-time. We would weave him into the story. He’s 1 of the founding actors connected the full show. In a weird way, he’s the thematic spine of the show. It benignant of follows his career. He starts arsenic a feline who kills idiosyncratic successful an appendectomy, and past by the extremity of the play he’s truly redeemed himself. He’s redeemed himself to beryllium idiosyncratic of existent precocious quality and morals and doing the close happening and truly understands the mistakes he’s made. In a way, that tracks the show.

Bruce Greenwood arsenic Randolph Bell. (FOX)

Do you spot foresee Andrew McCarthy fulfilling that Chastain patriarch relation successful the adjacent season? 
Andrew Chapman: You know, a small bit. I deliberation that is benignant of the idea. Amy Holden Jones, the creator of the show, and I truly talked astir this a lot. She loves Andrew and has had a narration with Andrew McCarthy from erstwhile shows and felt similar this was a feline who could service arsenic a small spot of stepping into the shoes of Randolph Bell and who has his ain demons and ain issues. These are demons and issues that are truthful prevalent successful the satellite of medicine today, truthful helium benignant of is simply a cleanable avatar for what goes connected successful hospitals. Also, he’s conscionable a spectacular actor. He has specified a prima beingness successful each country he’s in. You conscionable are like, wow, what’s helium going to bash next?

Devon proposes to Leela successful the play 6 finale. We cognize The Resident loves a wedding. Would their wedding beryllium successful play 7?
Andrew Chapman: Absolutely. We wholly privation to person that happen. We consciousness similar those 2 guys are the future: Devon and Leela. They’re specified an absorbing brace of doctors who volition beryllium joined and are trying to conscionable unrecorded their lives but besides woody with the pressures and stresses of moving successful a hospital. We emotion a wedding, too. Who doesn’t?

Bell truly passed the torch — oregon the stethoscope — to Leela astatine the extremity of the episode. What bash you person planned for her arsenic she steps retired connected her ain arsenic an attending?
Andrew Chapman: I deliberation what’s absorbing astir the amusement is it’s called The Resident, right? It’s truly astir the way that doctors instrumentality from wide-eyed idealistic interns, and past residents conscionable similar Devon. And past they bump into each the stresses of modern American medicine, the modern American healthcare system, and each the pitfalls of that and the corruptions of that, the money, the time, and the pressure, and however you marque these precocious stakes decisions. What we emotion astir Leela is, again, she came successful idealistic. When she archetypal started, she was 3 hours aboriginal for her displacement and everyone’s like, wow, you’re truly taking it seriously. She has these issues with her sister, and she has issues with Billie, however she’s going to take what benignant of specialty. We truly consciousness similar she’s the cleanable idiosyncratic to go an attending and to conscionable research each those issues of modern American medicine, and what it is to beryllium a surgeon successful the system. She’s ripe for the picking truthful to speak, right? She’s perfectly placed to weave communicative astir her character.

On different romanticist note, Conrad yet says “I emotion you” to Billie. What’s adjacent for them successful presumption of their narration and however they determination forward? 
Andrew Chapman: It’s unknown. Unclear. I deliberation that we truly wanted to spot however they showed up connected film. We truly wanted to spot the energy betwixt them, and we were much than pleasantly surprised. I mean, not surprised. We conscionable felt similar they were fantastic together, and they conscionable look truthful natural. That was spectacular. So I deliberation that we would conscionable spell to deepen that relationship, and perchance commencement a family. We don’t know. They person a earthy chemistry, and it’s a earthy chemistry that feels precise lukewarm and caring. Billie is idiosyncratic who takes attraction and looks retired for different people. She’s looking retired for Gigi, and she’s looking aft Conrad. Conrad, of course, has ever been a feline who’s looking retired for different people. That’s his full MO, right? But the operation is conscionable specified a caretaking 1 truthful I deliberation we would physique from that.

With Billie being with Conrad, there’s the Gigi element. She’s not replacing Nic arsenic Gigi’s mother, but it’s that weird limbo of what you are to this important idiosyncratic successful your important other’s life. It’s an absorbing enactment to walk. Would you privation to research that successful play 7?
Andrew Chapman: You truly nailed it. That is very, precise absorbing and precise modern. I consciousness similar those relationships beryllium each astir america each the time. I’m truly gladsome you brought that up and benignant of enactment your digit connected it. It’s perfectly thing that we are very, precise funny in. Because the smashed unneurotic families, the fractured families who past are enactment unneurotic successful weird ways is specified an American modern thing. I find it fascinating.

Devon and Cade successful ‘The Resident’ finale. (FOX)

Padma shows up astatine the precise extremity and has a blessed infinitesimal with Raptor, Leela, and the babies. Padma has struggled a lot this season, but she’s truly travel retired connected the different side. What would beryllium coming up for Raptor and Padma arsenic they navigate this caller normal?
Andrew Chapman: That’s an absorbing question. We considered having them possibly get together, which I deliberation is simply a possibility. We considered having them not get together, which is besides a possibility. Raptor is specified a beardown property successful the show. He’s specified an iconic figure: the arrogant surgeon but spectacularly good, the boastful, full-of-himself doc who besides truly cares astir different people, and who has to gully the hard motivation line. We emotion seeing him interact with Padma and the babies. We deliberation that becoming a begetter truly rounds retired his character, but we besides don’t privation to suffer that freewheeling, arrogant doc who’s besides the feline you privation operating connected you. He’s specified a affluent character, and we privation to marque definite that we sphere that. So I deliberation we would we volition research the familial, but I don’t cognize that we would person it arsenic beforehand and halfway arsenic we did successful this past season.

There’s that Cade and Yamada country astatine the extremity of the episode. Would you privation to diagnostic Yamada much successful play 7?
Andrew Chapman: Ian Anthony Dale who plays James Yamada, we thought helium was a implicit natural. What was truthful absorbing is that erstwhile we hired him, helium wanted to cognize however overmuch helium was going to beryllium successful the amusement for the past mates of episodes. We said we weren’t sure. We would spot what helium looked similar connected screen. We wanted to play him arsenic a small spot of a atrocious guy, but he’s truthful sympathetic, and helium managed to crook each these somewhat womanizing scenes into scenes with existent warmth and affection. We conscionable emotion him and his occurrence wherever he’s talking to Dr. Perry, who’s expected to beryllium a mentation of Bernard Lown, and was his mentor arsenic a bosom doctor, helium was conscionable fantastic. We would precise overmuch similar him backmost arsenic a cardiologist connected the show. We conscionable consciousness similar his narration with Cade is truthful absorbing and modern and without nary apologies, nary regrets. We’re having a bully time. That’s cool. Let’s spot wherever it goes. We conscionable find that great.

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