In the event you’re a fan of Nicholas Gonzalez and his characters, his newest sequence common roles haven’t made that simple. First, in The Good Physician Season 3 finale, Dr. Melendez died because of accidents he sustained in an earthquake. Now, on La Brea, Levi was shot and killed saving his greatest good friend Gavin (Eoin Macken). In each circumstances, his characters knew they’d deadly wounds—and the actor knew these moments had been coming in every case for a bit.
“Yeah, there’s a sure data of those two understanding they’re going to die in addition to an actor who knew for a very long time that he was going to die when nobody else did,” Gonzalez tells TV Insider. “It was one thing on La Brea that everybody knew a little bit bit earlier as a result of it wasn’t the identical type of attachment. However with The Good Physician, I used to be working for months with that data with none of my co-stars understanding.” On La Brea, he was additionally alleged to die within the first episode of Season 3; as a substitute, he survived till the fifth, the penultimate of the NBC sequence.
And in each circumstances, Gonzalez is aware of followers count on a last-minute save of some type. “The truth that this isn’t within the [La Brea] finale, I believe that there’s a sure sense that—not solely [is it] triggering, however I believe there’s going to be a variety of lot, ‘Oh, yeah, that is acquainted,’ as a result of so far as they know, time journey, something can occur. Anyone can come again and we will return and save—We’ve achieved it for Gavin, we’ve achieved it for Eve [Natalie Zea]. Why don’t we do it for Levi?”
Such was additionally the case on the ABC medical drama. “We saved everybody on The Good Physician. Shaun [Freddie Highmore] discovered a method it doesn’t matter what,” Gonzalez says. “To today, it’s making its method all over the world because the present does, and thru totally different streaming platforms that folks have entry to. Proper now, judging by my Instagram inbox, it’s in India as a result of I’m getting tears and ‘How may you do that?’” And he shares, many comply with the identical trajectory in the case of their emotions about Dr. Melendez, going from hating his character to him turning into a favourite to heartbreak over his dying.
“‘You saved so many individuals, and the way may they not do it for you?’” he remembers studying. “‘No person’s unhappy about it and speaking about it, actually. There’s a little bit bit, however then they’re over it and transfer on. And the way is that this not the most important factor and the way is there not a funeral?’”
He is aware of that La Brea followers are going to undergo the identical factor (particularly contemplating how difficult Levi’s relationship with Gavin grew to become, given his affair with Eve and the truth that he blew up everybody’s probability to depart 10,000 BC and return to 2021). “There’s that sci-fi factor,” says Gonzalez.
Hey, there may be nonetheless yet another episode of La Brea to go. But when that was the final time we see Gonzalez on that present, there’s all the time what he does subsequent. Guess we’ll must tune in to see if that character dies tragically, too.
