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During her tenure as Detective Erin Lindsay, Sophia Bush expressed her enthusiasm when it came to how her career up to that point had prepared her to take on the role and how it allowed her to demonstrate to viewers her unique skill set. “I’ve always known I have all these different people in me character-wise, but as an actor, when you do a job for so long, the public gets so used to you being that person that they think you are that person,” Bush told The Hollywood Reporter about her tour of duty in One Chicago. “What’s nice about the way Chicago P.D. has hit is that I get to show people something else.”
While her efforts were nothing short of excellent, the painfully realistic narratives she had to help bring to life started to take their toll on the actress. Eventually, Bush revealed that the heaviness of “Chicago P.D.” started to weigh her down much more than expected. “We’re telling real stories,” Bush said (via YouTube). “And because I work with officers who will sit down and talk to me and share their stories, they’ve seen things that none of us are aware of, and that stuff certainly sticks.”
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Eventually, Bush would leave the series, and while she has publicly stated that the struggles with the quality of life she experienced and less-than-ideal working conditions were the reasons for her departure, it’s not hard to imagine the heaviness of the show could have also been a factor.
