Christian Stolte<\/a>), Herrmann is able to bring his wife Cindy (Robyn Coffin) her mother\u2019s ring. Below, David Eigenberg talks about that major loss, that important moment at the end, and more.<\/p>\nHerrmann\u2019s house burns down and this is a location that\u2019s been on the show for years. So how does it feel to lose that for the Herrmann family for you?<\/p>\n
David Eigenberg: Yeah, it is funny for the character, it was written much more devastating. Dave Eigenberg and one can only imagine, but I\u2019ve been around long enough I think I can imagine rather accurately \u2014 I, Dave Eigenberg doesn\u2019t give a s**t as long as everybody\u2019s out. I\u2019m not terribly sentimental, so I had to kind of fight against it. And a couple of times I was getting notes. All I wanted to do was, let\u2019s go. They\u2019re making me act, which is hard for me. I\u2019m not a very good actor. I like putting on the s**t and then turn the fire up and then we do that. But yeah, losing the house, I think the character is devastated by it. Kids are going to college, and there\u2019s a lot changing in Herrmann\u2019s life.<\/p>\n
It is wild Herrmann\u2019s kids are old enough to go to college. How are Herrmann and his family doing going forward? Because I know they have a temporary apartment right now, but what is their housing situation? Do we see a new house this season?<\/p>\n
I don\u2019t know that answer. We\u2019re always left in the dark, so I won\u2019t say anything about that. The kids moving out and stuff is crazy. We were working with a young guy who\u2019s a background actor yesterday, and he was like, I don\u2019t know, 25, 28, and he was like, \u201cI grew up with this show.\u201d And you go, \u201cWow.\u201d He started watching it when he was 10 or nine or something. Now they\u2019re a full blown adult. They\u2019re not just like a kid. They\u2019re into life. And you go, \u201cThat\u2019s crazy.\u201d In some ways, it seems like forever; in other ways, it seems like yesterday. My kids have grown up and so much, it\u2019s going on 14 years. So it\u2019s crazy. And we\u2019re really lucky. We\u2019re really blessed and very grateful.<\/p>\n
So it seems like this is the worst time for Herrmann to have gotten a pay cut because he gave up being an officer and now Mouch is lieutenant. Is that going to be weighing on him going forward? Are we going to see that aspect of it?<\/p>\n
Yeah, some of it. It\u2019s stitched into my mind that that\u2019s the decision that Herrmann made. Whether it was the right decision or not, one would say it was the right decision, but I think Herrmann questions it constantly. I think people make goofy decisions in life, and I like that we do that on the show and don\u2019t just follow a standard protocol of X plus Y equals Z. And so yeah, we\u2019ll have to see how it unfolds.<\/p>\n
How much did Herrmann need to find Cindy\u2019s mother\u2019s ring and have that moment of showing it to her to have a bit of hope going forward? Also, I just love their relationship.<\/p>\n
Yeah, Robyn Coffin is an incredible actor and she brings so much. She raises the bar, she challenges me. She\u2019s a wonderful person, she\u2019s wonderful to work with. And I love their relationship because from the jump, I said, \u201cPlease make this relationship as real as possible.\u201d And I feel like it might\u2019ve had \u2014 I mean, I don\u2019t know what their intentions were. She\u2019s just great and she\u2019s just a good lady, and it\u2019s fun to be on the adventure with her.<\/p>\n
[As for the ring], yeah, it gets intense in that house, and I really liked that scene. I liked that they added that because as a firefighter and just going, \u201cIt\u2019s gone, but I\u2019m going back in,\u201d and he just kind of goes to town trying to find stuff to help still the sense of loss that the family has had. And it\u2019s harsh. It\u2019s harsh to lose everything. \u2026 Nobody likes to see their kids suffer, nobody likes to see their kids cry, and he wants to find something \u2014 and for his wife, too. You don\u2019t want to see your wife cry, so he\u2019s hungry to piece something together. I think that ring is a great find. I love that the writers, how they resolved it. And Herrmann says, I couldn\u2019t find anything. And then he drops his head or we see her disappointment. He says, because Mouch did. And he\u2019s the best.<\/p>\n
Chicago Fire, Wednesdays, 9\/8c, NBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What To Know In an emotional episode of Chicago Fire, Herrmann\u2019s family suffers a major loss after a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":245202,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[88,92],"class_list":{"0":"post-245201","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245201\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}