Stephanie Arcila is rather like Us and was completely shocked by Fire Country’s season 2 premiere proposal — regardless that it concerned her character, Gabriela Perez.
Warning: Spoilers under for Fire Country season 2, episode 1.
“I was in shock, but then, at the same time, not,” Arcila, 33, solely informed Us Weekly of Gabriela’s engagement. “Because, I mean, if Bode wasn’t in jail, would they be getting married? Their relationship happens so quickly, too!”
Arcila confessed, “I think Gabriela — a good Latina — is a romantic. [She] wants love and is very passionate in expressing it in how she is with her friends, with her family, with her partner.”
During the Fire Country season 1 finale, which aired in May 2023, Bode (Max Thieriot) falsely confessed to bringing medicine into Three Rock convict camp, so his pal Freddy (W. Tré Davis) would get a deal and be let loose. At the time, Bode informed Gabriela to not await him.
When the present picks up for season 2, viewers be taught that Gabriela and Bode broke up after he headed again to jail. During the season premiere on Friday, February 16, Bode is six months into his jail keep and Gabriela has discovered love with another person: paramedic firefighter, Diego (Rafael De La Fuente).
After celebrating their four-month anniversary in the episode, Diego proposes to Gabriela, and he or she accepts. “Eve, I’m engaged! I proposed and he did too. It was spontaneous and so us,” Gabriela says in the closing scene.
When Gabriela turns her head, she realizes that Bode is again at Three Rock. “I’m so happy for you,” Bode says earlier than the episode ends. Earlier in the premiere, Bode’s former enemy, Sleeper (Grant Harvey), agrees to admit to being the actual drug smuggler, which permits Bode the chance to get out of jail and as soon as once more work at Three Rock to knock break day his sentence.
“I was definitely in shock, because I don’t like to expect things. I like to be surprised,” Arcila informed Us in February of the bombshell engagement. “When I read it, I called some of my other castmates and I’m like, ‘Did you see that? I’m engaged! We’re engaged!’ What is this?’”
The actress defined that as season 2 unfolds, viewers will see how Gabriela processes the proposal and Bode’s return to Edgewater. “We’re going to see and find out how that develops and how she feels even if she doesn’t say how she feels,” Arcila teased.
Arcila informed Us that she hasn’t “found out yet” if there will probably be a love triangle involving Gabriela, Bode and Diego. “I think what we will see is that love that she still has for Bode,” she revealed. “And [Gabriela] trying to fight and figure out what is best for her. You’ll definitely feel it and you’ll definitely see it, but at the end of the day, they both want each other to genuinely be happy and they both want the best for each other.”
Arcila famous that there’s “such a deep love” and a “beautiful connection” between Gabriela and Bode, so Gabriela will “always love him” on some degree.
“I think there will be a shift in her maturity as well that people will see,” Arcila informed Us, including, “I think [that] her heart is trying to just build back up from those million little pieces that were broken in the last season.”
Fire Country airs on CBS Fridays at 9 p.m. ET.
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