Max Thieriot’s Fire Country Goal Is To Highlight And Humanize Firefighters – Looper

“The biggest thing that I want and hope to achieve with this series is not only to shine the light on firefighters for being the heroes that they are, but also just everything that they go through as humans,” Thieriot told Collider in a recent interview. “It’s important to realize that even though Superman wears a cape, when he takes that cape off, there’s a man underneath it, and it’s important to peel back those layers too. You have to show the good, the bad, and the ugly.”

The “ugly” seemed especially important to the former “SEAL Team” star. “I hope to also try to bring awareness to the difficulties that firefighters go through because these people are human,” he continued. “They don’t just go to work every day and come out looking like the heroes that they are underneath that. They go through a lot of emotional and real tragic experiences and they see a lot of horrific things. It’s stuff that a normal person might see once in their lifetime, but these people see it weekly, and that takes its toll. I hope that we can help people. I really hope that we can help firefighters and families of firefighters, who help our community and all of us, and make the world a better place.” Providing complex characters who deal with the traumatic experiences associated with fires is a noble focus.

“Fire Country” airs Fridays on CBS, and is available to stream on Paramount+.