Bill Burke doesn’t assume anybody ought to quit on Fire Country’s Vince and Sharon Leone — even with their season 2 tough patch.
Warning: Spoilers beneath for Fire Country season 2, episode 1.
“I think regardless of what happens between Vince and Sharon, I think people will still root for it,” Burke, 57, solely instructed Us Weekly whereas selling season 2 of the CBS drama.
Burke, who performs Battalion Chief Vince Leone, known as his character’s relationship together with his spouse, Sharon (Diane Farr), an “idealistic relationship” that may proceed to be explored.
“What we try to do is make it more relatable to people who are in a similar relationship. Who do have undying responsibility to each other and to those around them,” Burke defined. “So I think that’s the dynamic that people can invest in.”
He teased, “In terms of what will happen, again, don’t know, I just kind of go along for the ride like everybody else does.”
During the season 2 premiere, which aired on Friday, February 16, viewers discovered that after Sharon received a clear invoice of well being following her kidney transplant, she took a sabbatical. That break included time away from Vince and away from their son, Bode (Max Thieriot), who firstly of the episode was six months into one other jail keep.
When Sharon returned to Edgewater, she appeared chilly towards Vince, who had been holding down the fort and visiting Bode solo in her absence. “I haven’t slept in months,” Vince stated within the episode, to which Sharon quipped, “I know exactly how you feel.”
Elsewhere within the episode, the couple shared a candy embrace and appeared to be again on the identical web page about their marriage — however not on Bode’s state of affairs. (Bode lied about bringing medicine into Three Rock, the convict firefighter camp, through the season 1 finale, which resulted in him going again to jail.)
“I don’t think that Sharon has really changed her mind about anything,” Burke instructed Us earlier this month, noting that he thinks she’s “mourning the loss of time” and all that she “invested in her son.”
Burke defined, “The way that she deals with that and the way that Vince deals with it — sort of just flipped [the situation] on each other’s head. I think he probably mourns the loss of time and now is trying to throw himself back into it.”
Burke instructed Us that whereas Sharon was away, Vince selected to do a “soul search” that led to him leaning on the household he had shut, which was Bode in jail. He famous that on the identical time, Sharon was making an attempt to “find herself” and come to phrases with their present downside.
As the season strikes ahead, Burke teased that Vince is “back to a place where he’s rooting for his son again,” which hopefully Sharon will get on board with as nicely.
Fire Country airs on CBS Fridays at 9 p.m. ET.
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