It’s time for moreEmergencetalk! We recently sharedan interviewwith starsAllison Tolman,Robert Bailey Jr., andOwain Yeoman. Now it’s time to shift the spotlight to their co-starsDonald Faison,Zabryna Guevara, and co-creatorsTara ButtersandMichele Fazekas.
Tolman leads the new ABC series as a police chief named Jo. One night she’s called to the scene of an unusual accident and that’s where she finds a young girl, all alone with absolutely no recollection of what happened to her. When Jo agrees to take this girl home, she puts herself right in the middle of a dangerous conspiracy. Guevara steps in as Abby, a good friend of Jo’s who also happens to be the doctor who examines this young girl. And then there’s Faison’s character, Alex, Jo’s ex-husband who gets swept up in the chaos right along with her.
Butters, Fazekas, and the cast have already had quite the journey with the show. Just when all hope was lost over at NBC, ABC swooped in and picked up the series. Check out the video at the top of this article to catch my conversation with Butters, Fazekas, Faison and Guevara about that pick-up process, to hear about what Faison looks for in a show after finding so much success on television, if it was easy for Guevara to slip into herEmergencerole after appearing onNew Amsterdam, and so much more!
Keep an eye out for ABC’sEmergencewhich is set to premiere on Tuesday, September 24th at 10/9c.
Zabryna Guevara, Michele Fazekas, Tara Butters, Donald Faison:
Here’s the official synopsis forEmergence:
A character-driven genre thriller, “Emergence” is about a police chief who takes in a young child she finds near the site of a mysterious accident who has no memory of what has happened. The investigation draws her into a conspiracy larger than she ever imagined, and the child’s identity is at the center of it all.
