“The Talk” Satire Peter Krause: Why Did Angela Bassett Have to Drown Herself?

The Talk’s Sheryl Underwood had a bone to pick with Peter Krause after he

made his onscreen wife, Angela Bassett, go on a cruise against her

will for their honeymoon during the new season of 9-1-1.

“I’m mad at you because first you loved each other, [but] you know she didn’t want to get in the water like that,” Underwood, 60, told Krause, 58, on the Thursday, March 28, episode of the CBS talk show. “Because you know Black people in the country; our hair, our skin, our ashiness, we don’t want to do it. And then you got her in the water, and [the boat] blew up because of the terrorists and now you got to save the whole boat. OK, go on then.”

Underwood was referring to the three-part season premiere of 9-1-1, in which Krause’s character, Bobby Nash, takes Bassett’s Athena Grant away for their honeymoon, which comes four years into their marriage. While at sea, Athena quickly makes it clear that she was not in support of setting sail and would have preferred to stay on dry land. Just as she’s adjusting to the open seas, terrorists capture the ship — leaving Athena and Bobby to save the day.

“You know, it makes for good TV,” Krause quipped in response to Underwood’s gripes. “So there’s that.”

‘9-1-1’ Season 7 Trailer Gives Off ‘Titanic’ Vibes, Teases Deadly Shipwreck Underwood then admits that the epic adventure has been exciting and gushed over Bobby and Athena’s love story. “You two love each other,” she confessed. “I cried.”

Season 7 premiered on ABC on March 14 — its debut on the network after being canceled by Fox last year — with the second episode airing one week later. The final part is set to air on Thursday, with Bobby and Athena in need of rescue after a giant wave brought on by a hurricane capsized their boat.

“Yesterday I was climbing around an upside-down world. We have an injured individual who needs to be strapped to a roulette table, and then the ship turns over so he’s hanging upside down,” Krause teased while speaking to Entertainment Weekly earlier this week. “I have to figure out a way, like Bobby, to get him back down to safety.”

 

Krause told the outlet it’s “been fun” to take on a disaster of such a large scope, a project the show worked on for months. The short schedule, however, proved an obstacle at times, as 9-1-1 was also filming other episodes simultaneously.

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