Chicago Fire wrapped up on Wednesday, Might 21, alongside Med and P.D., with all three set to return to NBC for the 2025–2026 broadcast season. The sequence is “a glance into the skilled and private lives of the firefighters and paramedics of Firehouse 51 as they threat their lives day-after-day to avoid wasting and defend the residents of Chicago.” Taylor Kinney, Miranda Rae Mayo, Dermot Mulroney, Hanako Greensmith, Jocelyn Hudon, Christian Stolte, Joe Miñoso, Daniel Kyri, and Jake Lockett make up the main cast.
Hudon performs Paramedic Lyla Novak, who first joined the procedural in season 12, episode 9, “One thing About Her.” Hudon is most well-known for her work on When Hope Calls, The Pressure, Pixels, and The Order. She has additionally appeared in a number of different community sequence, akin to ABC’s 9-1-1 and The Rookie: Feds, NBC’s The Irrational, and CBS’ Legal Minds.
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I chatted with Jocelyn Hudon about what Ritter’s exit means for Novak, her character’s romance with Damon, and which character from the Dick Wolf Universe she’d prefer to see in Chicago Fireplace.
Hudon Is Curious To See What’s In Retailer For Novak’s Romantic Life
“He came to visit for dinner at her and Ritter’s place, so I am not precisely certain the place that is going.”
ScreenRant: Daniel Kyri is leaving the present, however Ritter and Novak simply turned roommates. What’s she going to do?
Jocelyn Hudon: I don’t know. However Novak is resilient, and she or he’s resourceful, and I feel she is going to determine it out. She might need a redo episode the place she’s searching for someplace to stay once more. I’m certain she’ll have a redo of that and attempt to discover someplace else to stay. Or perhaps she takes over the residence. I do not know. I feel Novak is likely to be a roommate type of woman, however I personally love dwelling alone.
Novak and Damon have a romance brewing, however they’re conserving it informal. Do you’ve any particular hopes for that relationship?
Jocelyn Hudon: I do not know as a result of he low-key broke up along with her in one of many episodes, after which she’s type of nonetheless round. She’s with him within the hospital. They’re mates. He came to visit for dinner at her and Ritter’s place, so I am not precisely certain the place that is going. And there are a bunch of followers additionally delivery Novak and Frost from Med, so I do not know what route it may go.
Do you’ve a staff?
Jocelyn Hudon: I haven’t got a staff. I am simply excited to see the episodes and see the place the writers take it, and I am on board with no matter approach they go. I like getting new episodes and being like, “Oh, okay, nice!”
I like a superb will-they-won’t-they relationship, so I may see that for her and Damon.
Jocelyn Hudon: I’d love a drawn-out lengthy scenario the place we attempt to determine it out.
Hudon Desires To Be taught Extra About Why Novak Grew to become A Paramedic
“That is what makes her so nice at her job, as a result of I feel a trauma affected her in actual life.”
Season 13 gave us some bits and items from Novak’s previous. Do you assume we’ll study extra about her in season 14?
Jocelyn Hudon: I actually hope we study extra about her previous. I’ve a bunch of questions, and I feel they did such an ideal job simply making us all so interested in her background, and I’d like to know extra and the place she got here from, the place she needs to go, what her story is and was. I’m very curious as to what occurred to her. I might like to see extra of her backstory.
Is there a selected query that you’ve got? One the place you are like, “I actually need to know this about Novak,” however the present hasn’t instructed you but?
Jocelyn Hudon: Yeah, in Episode 8, the place there is a suicide, and she or he was very triggered by the suicide, I wish to know if that personally affected her. If it was her mother, or her dad, or somebody shut in her household—I’d like to know.
I simply need to play that out as a result of I feel that should have been an early factor that occurred in her life that made her turn out to be a paramedic. I simply need to know extra about that. And that is what makes her so nice at her job, as a result of I feel a trauma affected her in actual life.
Did the writers provide you with any further backstory whenever you booked the function of Novak?
Jocelyn Hudon: No matter they construct onto it, I simply carry out it. Once I auditioned for the function, it was season 12, and I simply had two huge scenes. It was actually well-rounded as a result of we noticed how enjoyable and free and wild she could be and light-weight.
After which we additionally noticed how a lot she cares about her job and the way empathetic and caring and severely she takes her job and her coworkers. So I feel that first episode the place I joined, I feel that gave me lots to work with this character. It actually gave me a well-rounded character.
Hudon Hopes Novak Can Work together With Regulation & Order: SVU’s Olivia Benson
“I need her to work with Olivia Benson [from] Regulation & Order: SVU. That is my dream. I’ve an image of her in my trailer.”
In case you had been writing an episode of Chicago Fireplace, is there a storyline you’d write for Novak?
Jocelyn Hudon: Sure. I’ve two. I’d like to do a water episode as a result of I scuba dive. So I’d love for there to be some type of incident the place they’re like, “We want a paramedic to go underwater.” And I might be like, “That is me. My time has come. Shove me within the water.”
I’d like to do a water episode. I do know they did one a couple of years in the past, and everybody had a very nice time doing that. After which I additionally would love for the ambulance to get robbed or held up, and I’d love Violet and Novak to should struggle their approach out of a theft.
That is in all probability a tough query as a result of there are such a lot of characters, however is there one character particularly from the Dick Wolf Universe, alive or useless, that you’d’ve favored Novak to work together with?
Jocelyn Hudon: I need her to work with Olivia Benson [from] Regulation & Order: SVU. That is my dream. I’ve an image of her in my trailer. I like Regulation & Order: SVU and I feel it could be actually nice for Novak and Benson to one way or the other work together. I may die comfortable. I’d like to be like, “That is what occurred!” and she or he’d be like, “I will take it from right here,” and I might be like, “Nice!”
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About Chicago Fireplace Season 13
From Famend Emmy Award-Successful Government Producer Dick Wolf
Led by Lt. Kelly Severide (Taylor Kinney), Rescue Squad 3 works carefully with Lt. Christopher Herrmann (David Eigenberg) on Engine 51 and Lt. Stella Kidd (Miranda Rae Mayo) on Truck 81. Their tireless, never-give-up mindset brings all of them nearer collectively – and the women and men of Firehouse 51 are greater than co-workers, they’re household.
The firehouse is beneath new management with the addition of Chief Dom Pascal (Dermot Mulroney), who has big sneakers to fill after years of steering beneath the calming arms of Wallace Boden, who was elevated to Deputy Commissioner. Pascal, who has spent the final decade as Chief in Miami, has a totally completely different type which can rub some the fallacious approach. What is evident on the outset are his abilities and skill to remain useless calm within the face of crises — and his purpose stays constant in conserving the home working easily and his firefighters ready to beat all adversity that will come their approach.
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Chicago Fireplace season 13 is offered to stream on Peacock.
