Max Thieriot Talks How 'Fire Country' Season 4 Will See Bode "Rise from the Ashes" (Exclusive)
As Fire Country season 4 premieres on CBS, fans have been on the edge of their seats for the heartbreaking aftermath involving the Leone family. Well, Max Thieriot has thoughts on how what viewers just watched, including how the death of Vince Leone (
In the season premiere, Station 42 lost their fire chief after Vince and his wife Sharon (Diane Farr
While Bode and Sharon are understandably left reeling from Vince's death, Max exclusively shared with Good Housekeeping how this loss will affect his character in more ways than one.
"I think Vince's death leaves a huge void for Bode," he told us. "It leaves a lot of questions for him to be like, 'Where do I go from here career-wise?' But also, when you experience a loss like that and you're someone who already struggles day-to-day, we'll get to see him fight through the grief and how he copes with it."
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That's not all Max had to say about Bode's future, though. Viewers also watched as the former prisoner tried to step into his dad's shoes at Station 42, which came with both jealousy and doubt that he's not qualified to become the next chief.
But as Max added, Bode's not necessarily trying to take over his dad's role at the fire station. Bode's just coming to terms with what his legacy is as both a Leone and a first responder.
"As much as Bode didn't want to be a Leone, the longer we're with him, the more he starts to realize he is one," Max noted. "There's a big part of him that's Sharon, and there's a big part that's Vince. Now, he's pushing and pulling against that, because even though he's fought to be someone else, he can't deny the person that he is."
What's more, executive producer/showrunner Tia Napolitano commented how Bode's loss of his dad will force him to fight against the inmate we all met when the show began back in 2022.
"The death of Vince felt like an impactful loss the audience could experience along with our characters in real time," she told us over email. "It felt like a return to the roots of this show, with a fresh spin ... the way Bode ultimately handles himself, with twists and turns along the way, will really show us how far Bode has come from the Bode we met in the pilot."
The Last of Us: Bella Ramsey on Spider-Man, Movie With Pedro Pascal
Bella Ramsey has an idea of what they’d like to do next with Pedro Pascal following the death of his character, Joel, on the second season of “The Last of Us.”
“I think maybe like a heist movie where we’re robbing a bank together,” Ramsey told me Sunday at the HBO Emmys nominees event in Hollywood.
Ramsey said they are — no surprise! — most frequently asked about Pascal. “It’s, ‘How is Pedro Pascal? Is he as nice as he seems?’” Ramsey said. “That’s mostly what people ask me, and the answer is, ‘Yes.’…He’s here and I have not seen him in so long. I’m looking around, trying to find him.”
They added, “Most of our texts consist of, ‘Where in the world are you? I’m here, are you there? Oh, we just missed each other.’”
Talk also turned to superheroes because of Pascal’s recent work in “The Fantastic Four: First Steps.”
“You didn’t call [Pascal] and say you wanted to be in the next MCU movie?” I asked.
“I don’t know about that,” Ramsey said, adding, “I could be Spider-Man. Tom Holland did a great job though. So maybe they do need to make a new [superhero] for me.”
Ramsey is actually a newbie to superhero movies. They’ve only watched one, an Andrew Garfield “Spider-Man” film: “It was the first time I watched a Marvel film, and that was two months, three months ago.”
What did they think? “Incredible,” Ramsey said. “I loved it.”
Ramsey is nominated for an Emmy for the second time in as many years for their work as Ellie on “The Last of Us.” The series goes into Emmys night on Sept. 14 with 17 nominations.
