“It’s a ton of fun, first of all. I mean, the guys are great. Buck and Eddie are the ones coming and couldn’t be two better characters and two better people, two better actors who are just — wonderful chemistry, wonderful guys, and just brought a great sense of life and fun to our [show],” Raisani shared.
“What I can tell you is that, of course, there is a heated rivalry between them, between Nashville and L.A., but one that is underpinned by love and admiration, and at the end of the day, kinship,” he continued. “And so that’s what the crossover hopefully is going to set the table, as I said before, to set this moving forward. But we had to have a first episode where they all get to know each other a little bit.”
As for specific crossover character interactions he’s excited for fans to see, he calls Ryan (Michael Provost) and Buck “a big one,” teases “Dixie [LeAnn Rimes] might have something to say to one or two of them,” and also points to Don (Chris O’Donnell) and Eddie before naming Blue (Hunter McVey) and Eddie and Ryan and Buck as his favorites. “There’s some fun wildcards in there as well,” Raisani adds.
As for any history between any of the characters across the two shows, whether they’re onscreen or not, “there is a bit of that,” he shares. “Not between Buck and Eddie, with our young ones, but maybe between some of the older characters.” (We did see Kimberly Williams-Paisley‘s Cammie talk to Jennifer Love Hewitt‘s Maddie on 9-1-1 earlier this season.)
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