Chicago Fire season 7: Eamonn Walker returning, Monica Raymund likely leaving
According to a report from Deadline, Raymund is set to exit the series after a cliffhanger at the end of season 6 had Dawson considering whether or not to head down to Puerto Rico for the relief effort rather than stick around the Windy City. The actress’ contract was expiring at the end of the season alongside some other original cast members. Both Jesse Spencer and Taylor Kinney have already inked their return to the show, while Eamonn Walker and David Eigenberg are also both expected to be back. It remains unclear if Raymund will appear in a guest-starring capacity in the early going, but given that Sophia Bush didn’t do that following her exit from Chicago PD, it’s not something we are counting on.
Kara Killmer, Miranda Rae Mayo, Yuri Sardarov, Christian Stolte, and Joe Minoso, who play many other members of the beloved Firehouse 51 family, are also all expected back for season 7.
Losing Raymund is a huge blow for the series — she’s a strong performer and, to go along with that, she offers up so much connective tissue between this show and Chicago PD given that it was always easy to bring over Jon Seda given that Antonio and Gabby Dawson are related. The producers will now have to either lean towards Brett as the reason to bring over Antonio more and they will have to work in some other crossover connections.
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Creatively, the biggest challenge with this is obviously going to be figuring out what to do with the Casey character now that his onscreen wife is missing in action. How do you keep her around if she’s not appearing on the show? The longer this lasts, the harder it could be to keep that up.
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