Max Thieriot as jailed firefighter Bode Donovan within the new CBS sequence "Hearth Nation."
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Max Thieriot moved together with his “SEAL Group” co-stars to Paramount+ for the sequence sixth season — and he’s again on CBS starring in “Hearth Nation,” a brand new drama premiering Friday (Oct. 7) at 9 p.m.
Thieriot, who’s additionally a sequence co-producer and co-writer, performs Bode Donovan, who’s doing time in a Northern California jail (Lompoc) for armed theft. He’s denied parole, however will get a shot at redemption by volunteering for a program through which inmates work alongside professionals preventing raging wildfires — and, within the course of, shave day without work their sentences.
The sequence is impressed, partly, by Thieriot’s experiences rising up in Occidental, a small city in Sonoma County, and proudly owning a vineyard within the space for the previous 11 years.
“I grew up on this tiny city of a thousand individuals and lots of of my mates do that job in the true world,” Thieriot, who turns 34 Oct. 14, instructed The Publish. “I had a whole lot of mates that misplaced their properties in these [wildfires] which have swept by the world the previous 5 - 6 years. I've mates in Paradise and mates proper in Santa Rosa, solely 20-Half-hour from the place I reside, who misplaced their properties.
“I’ve additionally been evacuated a number of instances from my house,” stated Thieriot. “The fires have come proper as much as the vineyard and we’ve misplaced our crops. In 2017, when the Tubbs Hearth got here by it burned a whole lot of northern Santa Rosa and a whole lot of lives and houses have been misplaced. Myself and a few buddies who personal the vineyard with me and our basic supervisor … began a fundraising marketing campaign to lift cash for fireplace victims. We raised over $1 million and with the assistance of Habitat for Humanity we constructed a bunch of small properties that we gave to individuals to reside in after their misplaced their properties.
“It felt like a great time to focus on the heroes who do these jobs.”
Within the “Hearth Nation” opener, Bode and a busload of his fellow inmates are despatched to a firefighting coaching camp situated close to Edgewater — which occurs to be his hometown. That, in flip, triggers a variety of feelings in Bode, who’s hiding some secrets and techniques.
Thieiriot’s co-stars embody Billy Burke, Kevin Alejandro, Diane Farr, Jordan Calloway, Stefanie Arcila and Jules Latimer.
“Bode was basically was an All-American man with a probably giant baseball profession forward of him who got here from this small city and didn't have something to do with the firefighting group,” Thieriot stated. “By a sequence of unlucky occasions that led to his incarceration … he finally ends up on the one camp within the city through which he grew up, so now he’s again to face all his demons. Jail has modified him; he’s a man who was once extra bubbly and enjoyable and outgoing and is now affected by a whole lot of disgrace — and he must recover from that and undergo restoration to attempt to get nearer to the individual he was earlier than.
“That’s going to take bending a whole lot of relationships and dealing on his self-worth,” he stated. “There’s an incredible line in an upcoming episode that sums up who Bode is. Manny [Alejandro] says to him, ‘You have been incarcerated lengthy earlier than you went to jail.’
“That’s what put him in his personal private jail and now he’s bought to free himself.”
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