The Resident on TF1: Emily VanCamp (Nic) explains her reasons for leaving the medical series

Warning, the following paragraphs contain spoilers for the first few episodes of The Resident Season 5. If you don’t want to know anything, go!

The Resident Season 5 Episode 3, airing this Wednesday at 10:50pm on TF1, marks a turning point in the history of the medical series as it features the shocking death scene of Nurse Nicolette “Nick” Nevin. Camped out by Emily VanCamp since launch.

In August 2021, at the dawn of the broadcast of the 5th season of The Resident in the United States, he indeed announced that he would not return to the next episodes of the series, the actor decided to withdraw from films. to take care of the child.

Therefore, the writers were faced with the difficult task of offering this central character a satisfying solution that would satisfy fans while allowing the characters of the series to evolve.

The first two episodes of season 5, offered tonight from 21:10 on TF1, are marked by the absence of Nick, who decided to relax at the spa. Season 5 Episode 3 finally answers the fate of Emily VanCamp’s character.

In this pivotal episode, viewers discover that a nurse has been the victim of a car accident. Despite the efforts of Conrad (Matt Church), Bill (Jessica Lucas) and the entire staff at Chastain Hospital to save her, she dies of her injuries, leaving her husband, Conrad, alone with their young daughter. A heartbreaking event with serious ramifications for the rest of season five.

The actor wanted to leave

After giving birth to her first child in August 2021, Emily VanCamp told the scriptwriters that she wanted to leave The Resident to focus on her family. Deadline That this happy event changed his priorities.

“I think there comes a point in every woman’s and every person’s life when work becomes less important than family, and that’s what happened to me during the filming of the series.“, he confided to our colleagues.

“Shooting so many episodes in different cities and then adding Covid, it’s hard, most of us haven’t seen our family for a year. It really strengthened my belief that my family is the most important thing to me now.”.

Emily VanCamp, however, clarified that her departure was not related to tension on the set of the film or any dissatisfaction with her character’s scheming.

“I loved filming The Resident for four years– admitted the actor.Sometimes you hear that people leave the show because of something that happened behind the scenes or because of tension. In my case it is exactly the opposite. There is nothing but love and respect on set and it was not an easy decision to make. But I know it was right“.

Nick’s death was the only solution for the writers

When asked by TVLine, showrunner Peter Elkoff explained why it was unthinkable for him to simply send the character to another hospital or another city:How could she go to another hospital without taking her son?

“If we wanted a character to live in this fictional world, it would just create huge logical problems. It wouldn’t make sense. She was a devoted mother and nurse. Why would he leave the hospital? Did Konrad leave? Did he leave his daughter?“.

The writers therefore wanted to offer Nick’s character a narrative continuity that was consistent with what they had previously been able to create. They also intended to strike, thereby opening up interesting prospects for Konrad: “Conrad, who would become a divorcee and part-time father? It would be sad. But Conrad, as a single father raising his daughter alone, is heartbreaking but also fascinating to watch.“.

The next episodes of The Resident, which air every Wednesday from 21:10 on TF1, will allow us to follow Konrad’s new life as a single father, but also the slow reconstruction of the character after this tragedy.