Rob Lowe would reprise ‘9-1-1: Lone Star’ role on ‘9-1-1: Nashville’: ‘Waiting for my phone to ring’

Fans may not have seen the last of Owen Strand.

9-1-1: Lone Star viewers said goodbye to the 126’s fire captain twice during the series finale in February — once when it appeared he died saving the rest of his crew (and the entire central Texas area) from nuclear disaster, and again when it was revealed he survived and serves as the fire chief for the New York Fire Department.

“I think Owen Strand, based on who he was, went out in the right way,” Owen actor Rob Lowe told Entertainment Weekly at the time of the finale, the star relishing the full-circle moment of his character returning home to the city he started Lone Star in. “I think you wrap things up based on a character’s history and what they represent.”

But now it seems things may not be fully wrapped up for Owen, as Lowe reveals he is open to reprising his Lone Star character on the upcoming ABC spinoff 9-1-1: Nashville.

“I’m just waiting for my phone to ring,” the Atkins partner recently told Decider, noting that his brother, Chad Lowe, serves as an executive producer and director on Nashville.

“I mean, you know, I hired him on Lone Star. I think turnabout is fair play,” Rob Lowe continued, referencing his brother’s role as an occasional director on the Fox drama — on which Chad also guest-starred as Owen’s brother, Robert, who died at the end of season 4.

When it premieres next season, 9-1-1: Nashville will star Chris O’Donnell as Capt. Don Sharpe, whom ABC describes as “a rugged fire captain and rodeo rider who runs Nashville’s busiest firehouse. Don is a devoted husband and family man, but he has his secrets.” Similar to Owen, Capt. Sharpe will work in the firehouse “alongside his beloved son,” per the character description.

The series also stars Jessica Capshaw, LeAnn Rimes, Hailey Kilgore, Michael Provost, Juani Feliz, Hunter McVey, and Kimberly Williams-Paisley.

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No word on if Williams-Paisley’s country singer husband Brad Paisley will guest star. But 9-1-1 showrunner Tim Minear (who will executive produce and write Nashville alongside his Lone Star co-showrunner Rashad Raisani and franchise co-creator Ryan Murphy) has also expressed interest in working with Lone Star actress Gina Torres again “soon.”

So maybe Owen won’t be the only 126 member taking a trip to Tennessee?