Jessica Capshaw Breaks Down Commuting Back and Forth to Nashville for ‘9-1-1’ Spinoff

Jessica Capshaw is filming the upcoming 9-1-1 spinoff in Nashville — but hasn’t fully made the move to Music City.

“It sounds a little bananas. I live in New York, and I commute,” Capshaw, 48, said on the Monday, July 21, episode of her “Call It What It Is” podcast. “We’re back and forth, and it’s summertime and the kids are out of school.”

Capshaw and her husband, Christopher Gavigan, moved from Los Angeles to suburban New York in 2021 with their four kids.

“We’ve got a lot of comings and goings, and every episode of television is different,” Capshaw told her former Grey’s Anatomy costar and podcast cohost, Camilla Luddington. “Sometimes you’re working a ton in an episode, and sometimes you’re not.”

Capshaw, who is set to star in 9-1-1: Nashville opposite Chris Donnell, LeAnn Rimes and Kimberly Williams-Paisley, stressed that she is always “present” whenever her character is needed for a scene.

“When I’m working, I’m there and I’m present, I’m in and it’s awesome,” Capshaw added. “When I’m not working, instead of living my life in Nashville — where I don’t live, although I have so many friends there — I have just been coming home.”

She continued, “It’s actually, so far, been [and I’m] knocking on all the wood, really great.”

While Capshaw initially signed onto 9-1-1: Nashville with a “moving mindset” of relocating, she also wasn’t opposed to her family embracing a bicoastal life.

“As the daughter of an actress, my mom was always doing movies, and, at the time, movies were all wherever they were meant to take place,” Jessica said of her mother, Kate Capshaw. “So, we were in Sri Lanka and London making Indiana Jones in the Temple of Doom, and she was in Japan making this movie with Michael Douglas called Black Rain. I didn’t go there for that, but then it was all over the place … so, I would just come along for the ride.”

According to Jessica, she went to approximately “13 different schools” before she turned 13 years old.

“At that point, I was, like, ‘Mom, we gotta lay some roots here.’ So, we did stay in Los Angeles,” Jessica recalled. “I moved around a lot … and my mom was always really good at setting up these homes, and so I feel comfortable doing that. And now in my own life, I move around a lot.”

When Jessica arrived in Nashville, she found a local apartment to stay in whenever she’s on her 9-1-1 filming schedule. She has also been bonding with her costars while in Tennessee.

“We’ve been filming now for six weeks, and my first work was with Michael [Provost], who plays our son, and I adore him,” she gushed on Monday’s episode. “I feel so lucky to have such a talented and kind and just awesome person to work with, and it’s a lot of getting to know you [and] learning about his life.”

She noted that she is enjoying getting to work with Rimes, 42.

“I’m only six weeks into knowing her, but it actually probably says a lot that she’s game,” Jessica said. “She is coming in and out, and she literally did a show in Hawaii and then got on a plane and had two connections to arrive in Nashville, woke up for a 5 a.m. call time … and then we had a scene.”

Jessica further quipped that she loves Rimes’ “work ethic” of “wanting to be there.”

“It’s a really great group,” she said. “We have these two worlds happening, where there’s this emotional life and this family, and then you have the squad [of] firefighters. We actually have had such a great occasion to intermingle.”