During her time as Robin Charles on “Chicago Med,” Mekia Cox portrays a character battling a devastating medical condition while struggling to repair a broken relationship with her father. These stresses, while fictional, are nonetheless guaranteed to tax any actor’s stamina.
In a 2017 interview with Spoiler TV, Cox commented on the emotional strain of playing a character like Robin. She said part of her prep for the part included reading “Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness” by Susannah Cahalan. The book tells the true story of the author’s battle with a rare form of encephalitis that left her with some of the same symptoms as Cox’s Robin.
As Cox explained, Cahalan “[W]as basically going through a lot of the same things that my character was going through. It was quite emotional.” The actor explained that one scene called for them to be on a freezing balcony in minimal clothing, but by the end of the shoot, she actually felt super-heated. “I think my body just didn’t know that I’m you know shooting a theme for a show on TV. My body thinks this is really going on, and you know it gets into fight or flight mode and it can be really exhausting.”
Robin eventually decides to leave Chicago in Season 3 and move away to live with her mother. However, the character makes return visits to “Chicago Med” in Seasons 4 and 5, with her last appearance being in 2019.
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