9-1-1's Buck and Abby Finally Meet: Oliver Stark Admits He Was

9-1-1's Buck and Abby Finally Meet: Oliver Stark Admits He Was 'Nervous' to Act Opposite Connie Britton

The moment every 9-1-1 fan has been waiting for is finally here.

After weeks of exchanging flirty phone calls, firefighter Evan “Buck” Buckley and 9-1-1 operator Abby Clark will meet face-to-face this Wednesday (Fox, 9/8c), though their long-awaited “first date” probably won’t go down the way you’ve been imagining.

Oliver Stark (aka Buck) tells TVLine of shooting his first in-person scenes with Abby. “I was actually a little nervous for it. Like, it’s Connie Britton. What if I’m rubbish and she’s like, ‘What are you doing?’ Fortunately, the first-date pressure is taken out a little bit because they’re essentially on a job. They have something else to focus on, but you still get these little undertones of ‘Oh, hi, we’re actually here.’”

Because 9-1-1 doesn’t always do traditional table reads before each episode, Stark says he’d never acted in the same room as Britton, though they try to call each other on the prop phones for their scenes whenever possible.

“It’s always interesting for me when I actually see the episode,” he says. I’m like, ‘Oh, that’s what she was doing when she said that line,’ or ‘Oh, that’s the face she was making.’”

But don’t go brainstorming a ‘ship name for Buck and Abby just yet; Stark says he’s “personally OK if it doesn’t turn into something romantic.” (To be fair, he did already turn her down once.)

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Of course, Abby isn’t the only 9-1-1 character with whom Buck has a complicated relationship. Last week’s episode ended with Peter Krause’s Bobby — previously a stoic leader with no visible cracks in his armor — completely breaking down in front of Buck and Hen (Aisha Hinds).

“It’s like that moment where a kid realizes his dad isn’t the strongest man in the world,” Stark says. “It helped Buck develop even more respect for Bobby because he’s like, ‘You’re just like me, but you’re battling this stuff and you’re still doing this job and being a leader.’ In Episode 2, Bobby told Buck he needed help, so it kind of came full circle for Buck to say he’s here for him too. It demonstrated their trust in each other, almost like a family.”

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