Because the 9-1-1: Lone Star workforce ready for the Fox drama's finish, actress Natacha Karam had one request.

"We haven't actually seen a lot of Marjan's private life within the 5 seasons. Very sometimes can we ever see her outdoors of labor or with out the 126, so it was one thing that was form of overdue," the star tells Leisure Weekly of her firefighter character on the Fox drama.

Karam says co-showrunner Rashad Raisani was wanting to "go away the viewers with a satisfying ending for these characters that they've journeyed with for 5 years" and for Marjan, that meant evolving her relationship with Joe (Karam's real-life boyfriend John Clarence Stewart), whom she met as her bodily therapist whereas she recovered from being shot within the abdomen in season 4. And on Monday's episode, "All Who Wander," that resulted in a fast bounce from off-screen courtship to a quickly deliberate marriage ceremony on the 126 firehouse.

From serving to design the marriage gown to that touching, intimate post-wedding scene, Karam takes EW inside Marjan and Joe's romance.

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ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: What made you most enthusiastic about Marjan getting married?

NATACHA KARAM: I actually needed to see a unique facet of her, the place she's much less assured and a bit extra weak — and the best and most sincere manner into that was by means of this relationship that we'd established towards the tip of final season. Clearly in a super world, we might've had extra episodes and extra time to develop it, nevertheless it was necessary for us to do as a lot as we might inside this episode and canopy as a lot floor as we might in order that the viewers felt like as certain as Marjan does that that’s the proper path for her.

What do you assume makes Joe such match for Marjan?

Effectively, there's at all times the issues that make individuals fall in love: the chemistry, the banter, the same pursuits. And it clearly all begins with a crush. However the query is "What makes it sustainable?" You get into extra sensible components of "Do we’ve the same imaginative and prescient for all times?" "Do we’ve comparable morals?" And clearly being the person of religion was a non-negotiable for her. And over time throughout their very conventional courtship, the extra they frolicked speaking, attending to know one another, I believe each time that they had a dialog it form of lined up that truly they need the identical issues out of life. She really believes that is the best particular person for her. And that’s what will get turned on its head when you will have them meet her mother and father. Marjan and Joe appear so aligned and so comfortable on so many issues, after which impulsively she turns into anxious, and he's watching a lot of it unravel and never line up with conversations that that they had earlier than — simply due to her nervousness.

How did you agree in your marriage ceremony outfit?

In my discussions with the writers, the one factor I needed to verify was that [since it was all happening in one episode,] it didn't really feel like Mahjong had been shortchanged in any manner out of a ceremony or a marriage that might match her typically extravagant nature. I believe there was a model the place it was virtually a same-day marriage ceremony, and I used to be like, "Simply give her a day. Give her a day or a few days to get the gown collectively. This isn’t a girl to have some sort of modest affair." We had so many conferences the place I form of mentioned what I needed for the character, what felt genuine — all the way down to the marriage outfit. I put a variety of effort into creating that look, and so did the costume division. It wasn't one thing we purchased, it was one thing we made out of separate items.

I had this loopy concept that I needed to put on a jumpsuit and a tulle overskirt. We ended up having to make the overskirt and alter the jumpsuit from an preliminary model that I had discovered to verify it was modest and never sheer or exposing any flesh. After which we needed the veil to be actually, actually dramatic. The costume division sourced this superb decadent cloth, nevertheless it was so heavy. So then the query was like, "Will we make it a bit shorter, figuring out that the material's very dramatic?" However we had been all in on this imaginative and prescient, so they only did some structural engineering and located a solution to hold that cloth up and have the load and size of it. Everybody's dedication to the trigger resulted in a extremely cool consequence that every one of us had been actually proud of.

It looks like everybody had a extremely good time filming the reception.

Yeah! I imply, these are all my family and friends now. We've all labored collectively for 5 years. It was like having a giant social gathering at work collectively. And the character who performs Joe is my boyfriend in actual life, so it felt actually meta as a result of all of the solid members know him. I do know him. That's form of what my marriage ceremony could appear to be ultimately in an alternate universe. In order that day was actually, actually enjoyable.

Then the episode ends with that intimate scene between Marjan and Joe…

One of the crucial necessary scenes for me was that intimate honeymoon suite. There have been a variety of conferences about ensuring that the tone was proper and that it felt actually tender and delicate and protected. And I believe [director Brad Buecker] did a fantastic job with the way in which that was shot and edited collectively to really feel like a standard, harmless love story. I'm happy with how that got here collectively. It was actually stunning to see that sort of tenderness and intimacy with out it being sexual or sexualized in any manner.

With solely two episodes left, what are you able to tease for the tip of Lone Star?

I don't assume the viewers will really feel shortchanged in any manner by the scope of the disasters that we're going to come across. We make certain we exit with a bang after taking our viewers on a journey for 5 years the place we’ve these larger-than-life moments and rescues. We are going to proceed to do this, however we are going to go away the viewers in a spot the place hopefully they really feel happy with the evolution of characters and the subsequent chapters that these characters are all getting into in their very own lives.

9-1-1: Lone Star airs Mondays at 8 p.m. ET on Fox.

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