Chicago Hearth Vet Jesse Spencer to Return Throughout Taylor Kinney’s Absence

As one firefighter takes a break, one other returns.

Jesse Spencer will reprise his Chicago Hearth function as Matt Casey in an upcoming installment of the NBC drama, our sister web site Selection stories.

Spencer’s look in Episode 18 comes as longtime sequence common Taylor Kinney is taking a go away of absence to take care of a private matter. It’s not clear but what is going to convey Casey again to the Windy Metropolis.

Spencer exited Hearth within the present’s two hundredth episode, which aired again in October 2021, after nearly 10 seasons as a full-time solid member. His character determined to maneuver to Oregon to deal with his late finest good friend Andy Darden’s sons, whereas sustaining an off-screen, long-distance relationship with Sylvie Brett (Kara Killmer).

On the time of Spencer’s exit, the actor defined, “I noticed I’ve been doing TV for a very long time. I added it up, and I believe this yr is my 18th yr of community tv [between Fire and House]…. It was a tough determination as a result of I’ve beloved the present from the beginning, however there are different issues that I wish to do sooner or later, and there’s some household that I must deal with, and 18 years is a very long time.”

Spencer left the door open for a comeback and he made good on it: Casey later returned within the Season 10 finale for Severide and Stella’s wedding ceremony, which he attended along with his girlfriend Brett. Nevertheless, that romance didn’t final: The couple broke up over the telephone on this season’s premiere, with Brett lamenting that the timing simply wasn’t proper for them.

Kinney’s Severide final appeared within the Feb. 22 episode, and his absence was defined within the March 1 installment, when it was revealed that he had gone to Alabama for an arson investigation coaching program.

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