Heating things up! Max Thieriot is no stranger to the limelight — but his latest position as Bode Donovan on CBS’ Fire Country has made him a good larger megastar.
The California local, 34, isn't just the lead character at the display, which premiered in October 2022, but he's the writer in addition to a writer and manufacturer on the challenge.
The drama follows a group of convicts, together with Bode, who're a part of a firefighting program in Northern California that assists in lessening the danger of wildfires. Bode, however, is not like his fellow inmates as he's the son of the local Cal Fire Battalion Chief Vince Leone (Billy Burke) and Cal Fire Division Chief Sharon Leone (Diane Farr) — who haven’t seen their son the dying of his sister years prior.
Thieriot’s firsthand experience seeing firefighters protect his hometown of Occidental, California, in 2017 all over the local Tubbs and Nuns fires impressed him to inform the story of the first responders with the loads.
The Tubbs fire claimed at least forty lives and affected greater than 6,000 houses in the Sonoma County house, in accordance to The Los Angeles Times. The Nuns fire took nearly a month for firefighters to get it contained.
“It used to be chaos. It was so surreal and unbelievable that this fire used to be spreading where it was. People just couldn’t consider this ever going down,” the actor recalled throughout an interview with the Petaluma Argus Courier in October 2022. “And after it was in every single place, I used to be driving around, and it used to be just laborious to digest [seeing local landmarks get demolished]. My gosh, the devastation.”
While filming the Fire Country pilot in summer 2022, he simultaneously began capturing season 6 of SEAL Team — a busy agenda that simplest got busier as the firefighter drama picked up with episode 2’s filming agenda.
“It’s clearly a juggle,” the House at the End of the Street megastar instructed newshounds all the way through CBS’ virtual Television Critics Association press day in September 2022. “It’s been loopy, but existence’s crazy. But I’m younger, and I will be able to keep up. I really like staying busy, so it really works for me.”
The TV star’s laborious work paid off and Fire Country used to be renewed on January 6 for season 2 after 8 episodes aired at the community.
“It’s certainly in reality rewarding. This has been my baby for the remaining 3 years, so it’s exciting to finally see it out on the planet,” Thieriot advised Collider in January. “But as rewarding as it is — and no matter how much I’m taking part in all of those moments with all of those people that I’m getting to celebrate this with — it’s also a lot of paintings. I’m no doubt doing extra paintings now than ever.”
When it comes to the rest of season 1 — and now season 2 — the Texas Rising alum is excited about telling complex stories.
“The largest thing that I want and hope to reach with this collection is not just to shine the sunshine on firefighters for being the heroes that they are, but additionally just the whole lot that they undergo as people,” he continued. “It’s vital to understand that even though Superman wears a cape, when he's taking that cape off, there’s a man beneath it, and it’s necessary to peel again the ones layers too.”
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Fire Country airs on CBS Fridays at Nine p.m. ET.
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