The medical drama was in its second season when Kyle Chandler landed the role of Dylan, a.k.a. the dreamy bomb-squad guy in the two-part episode that featured live ammunition inside a patient.

"I had taken ankle wraps and put them on really tight underneath my boots so I’d feel grounded, because I’m the bomb guy," he says.




And despite the fact that his character was blown up — "When they exploded the detonating cord for a practice run in the parking lot, I swear you could hear car alarms going off for 30 miles" — Chandler was asked back for a dream sequence of sorts in season 3.

But that’s not all creator Shonda Rhimes did for Chandler’s career. "She’s the one who suggested I go over and talk to Peter Berg [creator] about 'Friday Night Lights'. I said, 'I'm not old enough to play Coach.' And of course you know how that turned out."

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