'Chicago P.D.' Stars Reveal The 200th Episode Easter Egg That Fans Might Have Missed, Plus Big Filming Challenges
Interview with Marina Squerciati and Patrick John Flueger
Transcript
00:00 - Burgess being trapped down in that well
00:02 would have been a nightmare scenario
00:04 even without the post-traumatic stress.
00:06 So how did you approach that whole sequence
00:10 and was it as cramped as it looked?
00:12 - You know, it was tight.
00:13 I mean, you're in water in a uniform trying to act
00:17 and you can't really leave the well
00:20 and there's a lot of people there.
00:21 So I'm just glad I wasn't claustrophobic.
00:23 That would have added a whole nother level to the PTSD.
00:24 - Was it as tight as the train?
00:25 - It's tighter than the train.
00:28 - Yeah, but I mean, but they had the ability
00:30 to move the walls, right?
00:31 Like on the train.
00:32 - No, no.
00:33 The train was, but there's a thing sticking out of the train
00:37 that I ripped my pants on every time.
00:40 Not like a little rip.
00:42 And there was, they tried to pad it,
00:43 but you could tell 'cause I'm in that little space.
00:45 So every time I completely tore the pocket off my pants.
00:49 They both were, neither was comfortable.
00:51 Let's just say that.
00:52 Neither was comfortable.
00:54 - Do you wanna be wet
00:56 or do you wanna be sopped in fake blood?
01:00 - I mean, I would take off my clothes every night
01:01 and I would just have blossoming bruises from like,
01:05 and I'd be like, I don't know what that's from.
01:07 It looks like it hurt.
01:08 (laughing)
01:10 - Yes, on the train, it seemed like Burgess
01:12 chose a very poor day to wear a white sweater.
01:15 - You know, that was a, if you'll recall,
01:18 which I don't know if anyone will,
01:19 but like that's exactly the shirt I was wearing
01:22 essentially when I got shot.
01:24 And so it was supposed to,
01:27 we were supposed to have a crane shot
01:29 that actually went up like the time I was shot,
01:31 but the ceiling on the train drops down
01:35 exactly in that point that I am.
01:37 So we weren't able to get the shot.
01:39 That was Chad wasn't, that he wanted.
01:41 I mean, it still worked out beautifully,
01:43 but he wasn't able to get that shot,
01:44 but it was supposed to sort of bring me back
01:47 in a way as well.
01:49 It was supposed to sort of help the journey.
01:50 But those are little golden eggs that only like-
01:54 - Easter eggs.
01:55 - Easter eggs, yeah.
01:56 - Well, it was cramped for you in the train.
02:00 Patti, what was it like for you filming out
02:02 in the tunnel for the L sequence?
02:05 - Oh, it was good.
02:07 I think she had it a lot tougher on the train.
02:10 I mean, that day, actually when we were on the train,
02:14 I was like, I was fairly sick.
02:16 So I was not sick when we were filming in the tunnel.
02:19 So I was like, my whole experience changed dramatically.
02:24 Dramatically.
02:25 - Dramatically.
02:26 - Dramatically.
02:27 Drastically and dramatically combined becomes dradically.
02:30 It was great.
02:31 It was interesting.
02:32 It was kind of fun to see how the sausage is made,
02:35 as far as the CTA is concerned.
02:37 Not quite as fun, I think, for the crew
02:42 who had to push all of their equipment
02:46 about a quarter to a half a mile down the tracks,
02:49 over gravel, over train tracks.
02:52 And there's a lot of safety regulations.
02:55 The CTA obviously has to make sure
02:57 that everybody's doing their due diligence.
02:59 You know, there's the third rail, which is, you know,
03:03 you look at the third rail
03:04 and you're gonna get shocked to death.
03:05 So it was an intense day for the crew.
03:10 The poor background, God bless you if you're watching this
03:14 and you did background that day,
03:15 or any of those days, thank you.
03:18 'Cause not only did they work really hard and kill it,
03:21 they, you know, there was no bathroom.
03:25 It was crazy.
03:26 So really it was more logistical.
03:30 The shooting was fun and interesting
03:34 and you could see how beautiful and dramatic
03:37 it was gonna look on camera.
03:39 It was more the logistics of it
03:40 that were difficult for everybody around me.
03:43 For me, I, you know, I had it pretty easy
03:46 other than, you know, having to jog to the bathroom
03:50 a couple of times, you know, a million miles away.
03:53 But they let me go.
03:55 The other people, you know,
03:58 they're looking at corners and bottles.
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