"Chicago Fire" is her home base, but that doesn't mean Monica Raymund won't pop up on "Chicago P.D." or "Chicago Med" as well in any given week.
Producer Dick Wolf's three NBC series set in the Windy City regularly share cast members, and the actress who plays firefighter Gabriela Dawson on Tuesdays tells Zap2it, "I pity the man who keeps scheduling those crossovers and coordinating it. It's hard. It's a lot of work. I have to say the production staff in Chicago does an incredible job of making sure everybody is in the right place at the right time.
"Do not get me wrong," adds Raymund, "I do wake up and I'm on a set and I don't know where I'm supposed to be and what's happening in [the] episode, so it requires even more attention for me. What's fun is that you can still carry the circumstances of what's happening on my 'home show,' I call it; it's like when you are in school and you go to homeroom. 'Chicago Fire' is my homeroom, but I like to carry all of the conflicts and obstacles that Dawson has gone through. Why shouldn't that inform her behavior on 'P.D.' or 'Med' as well? It's still the same world."
Though Dawson has gone through much personally in the "Chicago" world lately, including losing the child she was expecting with colleague Matt Casey (Jesse Spencer), Raymund stays focused on the professional as she plays her character.
"One of the most respectable things that these first responders do," she reflects, "is they put their lives on the line every day for you and for me. What these guys do as doctors, officers and firefighters … they have to be able to process it and still show up and go to work. How we cope with intensity or grief or loss, that's a human thing. I probably am a lot like Dawson in that way. I cry behind my bedroom door. I'm kind of private like that."
However, Raymund notes, "I've got to get up, and I've got to get out of bed, and I have a job to do the next day. You carry those experiences as you go to work every day because you remember why you're doing it, and it's worth continuing on. I think that is probably one of the most heroic things about Dawson that I admire. I would like to be a little bit more like that."
Raymund also would like to be a little more accustomed to the typically harsh Chicago winters she sometimes has to film outdoors in. "I'm not going to lie, it's rough," she confirms. "You know how Chekhov writes about Russia in his plays, about bearing down the cold and you have to take the train to Moscow? It's like that. Chicago's kind of like Russia. It's difficult, but it's also … I don't know. I've never had to be outside for a very long time in that kind of cold. I appreciate my heat and a little shot of whiskey at night."
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