Chicago P.D.’s Tracy Spiridakos Gets Only Days To Memorize New Scripts

During an interview, Tracy Spiridakos talked about the NBC series and her character, detective Hayley Upton in great detail. During the eye-opening affair, the actress revealed some interesting information regarding the script-to-screen process for each iteration of the crime drama, as well as her exemplary skills at getting a script down rather fast. “Most of the time, we get the scripts usually two days before we start shooting,” the “Chicago P.D.” star said in an interview with Build Series (via YouTube). “And then we have a table read the day before, and then we go into it.”

Despite the less-than-stellar time crunch, Spiridakos has overcome it all to maintain her status as an aforementioned fan-favorite and has passed the 100-episode mark on the show, which is impressive considering she came in during the fourth run. The excellent efforts of Spiridakos and everyone else involved have helped the crime drama attain an outstanding audience score on Rotten Tomatoes with tons of top-rated episodes on IMDb. The show continued to dominate years later as it was one of the most-watched scripted series from September 2021 to May 2022 (via Variety).

There is no denying that it isn’t easy bringing any of the “One Chicago” shows to life, and given how loyal the “Chicago P.D.” fans have been over the years, it seems they most assuredly appreciate the lengths Tracy Spiridakos and everyone else on the series go to in order to make it always entertaining from start to finish.