Jay Halstead departed the Windy Metropolis in Season 10 of Chicago P.D., which has not been good for his marriage, to say the very least. Actor Jesse Lee Soffer’s departure because the character marked a serious shift within the long-running present. Now, he has returned to the P.D. set, however to not reprise his function as Halstead. Soffer went again to his outdated stomping grounds to direct an episode, and a few enjoyable behind-the-scenes images give a sneak peek at him in his directing debut. Whereas followers must wait to see the episode, his former P.D. co-stars are already hyping him!
Information broke that Jesse Lee Soffer was coming again to P.D. to direct an episode simply a few weeks after he bowed out of the NBC drama as Jay Halstead. On the time, Halstead going again to the military and leaving a tearful Upton behind was nonetheless contemporary. Happily, in some images that the actor-turned-director shared on Instagram, Tracy Spiridakos undoubtedly isn’t crying! Check out Soffer again on set with Spiridakos and extra of his former co-stars:
I can’t communicate for anyone else, however seeing Tracy Spiridakos smiling in a photograph with Jesse Lee Soffer is fairly good after the newest episode concerned Upton all however breaking down after getting some dangerous information about Halstead’s odds of selecting to return house. One other photograph reveals Soffer on the streets of Chicago to direct LaRoyce Hawkins (whose Atwater will be the subsequent officer to change into a detective after Halstead left) and Jason Beghe, after which again in Intelligence with what seems to be like many of the collection regulars.
There’s solely a lot that followers can glean from a number of images, however fortunately, a few his P.D. friends hit up the remark part to hype Soffer’s work as a director. Marina Squerciati, whose Burgess has been by the wringer and again once more over the previous few seasons, posted:
Marina Squerciati labored with Jesse Lee Soffer all the best way again to Season 1, so I feel we will take her phrase that he’s fairly nice as a director! It might definitely be arduous for the present to search out someone with extra Chicago P.D. expertise to step behind the digicam to helm an episode. Tracy Spiridakos echoed Squerciati’s sentiment, and added a pair emojis for good measure:
Spiridakos and Soffer spent a lot of their screentime over his previous few seasons collectively, and she or he’s displaying her help for him in his new endeavor. In a enjoyable twist, a star from elsewhere in the nine-show Wolf Leisure TV universe additionally hit up the remark part to help Soffer. Chicago Hearth’s Daniel Kyri (a.okay.a. Engine firefighter Ritter) commented:
Jaina Lee Ortiz – who stars in a special primetime hit as main girl of ABC’s Station 19 – popped in to Jesse Lee Soffer’s feedback to say “Go Jesse, GO!” with some fireplace emojis, which actually simply makes me marvel what community tv would seem like if Gray’s Anatomy and Station 19 by some means shared a universe with One Chicago, the Legislation & Orders, and the FBIs.
Jesse Lee Soffer went on to submit a pair extra images, first posing with producer Brian Luce after which revealing what the producer hilariously has hanging on his workplace wall:
Has the massive framed print of Jay Halstead been up on that wall all alongside, or was it a particular addition for Jesse Lee Soffer’s directing debut? That reply might by no means come, however there’s a little bit of nostalgia to go together with the enjoyable (and “FUCKING FANTASTIC” mug) with a picture of the late Alvin Olinsky, who was killed off again in Season 5.
On the time of writing, NBC hasn’t introduced when Jesse Lee Soffer’s episode of Chicago P.D. will air, though it’s more likely to debut in March. The present will return from its mini hiatus with the thirteenth episode of Season 10 on February 15, adopted by the milestone 2 hundredth episode on February 22. Early reviews said that Soffer’s episode could be the sixteenth of the season; if that’s the case, and if P.D. doesn’t go on any extra multi-week breaks, then his episode ought to air someday in early-to-mid March.
For now, followers can simply sit up for Chicago P.D. returning after what might have been Upton’s final episode of torment from Jefferson White’s Sean O’Neal. Beginning on February 15, P.D. shall be again in its ordinary 10 p.m. ET time slot on Wednesdays on NBC. You may as well revisit some previous episodes streaming with a Peacock Premium subscription! The present hasn’t but been renewed for a Season 11, however information on its future will hopefully come sooner fairly than later.