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Your character got to make a comeback this year on “Chicago Med.” How did it feel to return as a series regular?
It felt amazing. The cast and the crew are so delightful to work with, [and] it felt like I was coming back to a family, so it was nice to have that be a more solid position now.
Were you surprised when you first received the call to return to the show, or were you aware that her story would eventually be continued?
I was completely surprised. In the beginning when I was on the show, there were a lot of talks about continuing the storyline. Then when COVID hit, every storyline in the world changed. When the show had come back after a slight pause that everybody took, I wrote it off as, “What an amazing journey.”
Everybody told me on set, “Hey, you didn’t die, so there’s always the possibility you’re coming back.” [Laughs] The crew on my last day of filming was like, “Hey, you’re not dying. We’ll see you again one day.”
To get a random phone call a few years later was such a surprise and felt so amazing. It felt like coming home.
When you returned in Season 7, did you approach playing Hannah any differently since she had returned from rehab with this fresh start?
Yes. To be honest, I had anxiety about how I was going to approach Hannah coming back. There had been a decent amount of space that we haven’t seen her, so she went away for a while. There was that creative freedom to make my own backstory that only I would know about before coming on set.
Coming back, [it was about] wanting to play this line of an addict that’s in recovery, where life goes on and she’s rebuilding — and to also not lose the essence of somebody that is still working through something, because addiction never actually goes away when you’re in recovery.
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