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The Independent
12-04-2025
- Entertainment
- The Independent
Jelly Roll makes his acting debut and premieres a new song alongside it
Singer-rapper Jelly Roll has made his primetime TV debut — and he premiered a new song in the same episode. Appearing on the April 11 episode of the hit CBS drama Fire Country, Jelly Roll, 40, played healthcare worker and former convict Noah. The role marked Jelly Roll's first scripted TV appearance after a previous cameo as himself on the Paramount+ series Tulsa King. Then, after his character was introduced, Jelly Roll's new song, 'Dreams Don't Die,' premiered later in the episode. Now in its third season, Fire Country follows a young convict, Bode, seeking redemption and a shortened sentence by joining a firefighting program in Northern California. Jelly Roll's appearance on the show came about after he crossed paths with its star and executive producer Max Thieriot at the CMT Music Awards. 'I said, 'Thank you for letting us have some of your songs on the show,'' Thieriot recently told US Weekly. 'And he's like, 'Dude, how do I get on the show? I've been petitioning online and talking to my people and you got to get me on that show.'' Thieriot told the outlet Jelly Roll called him the next day to follow up on his desire to appear on the show. 'We worked on coming up with a character [for him] that we all thought would be interesting, unique and special and still. It tells some of the story about second chances and what he really represents,' Thieriot told US Weekly. 'But [it] also feels different from who he is and how people see him day to day as a country singer.' Jelly Roll's appearance and song resonated with fans of his, and of the show. 'Jelly Roll was great on the show. Wish he was on there for good,' one fan wrote on Facebook. 'He hit a homerun again with this song,' another person wrote. 'Jelly Roll on Fire Country is so clutch!!' someone else shared on X. 'I started at 540 pounds and I was 357 pounds this morning,' he said on the April 9 episode of Pat McAfee's Big Night Aht show. 'I'm gonna lose another 100 pounds and go skydiving with my wife in Sweden, baby!'
USA Today
06-04-2025
- Entertainment
- USA Today
Max Thieriot talks 'Fire Country' return, 'Sheriff Country' spinoff and the fatal LA fires
Max Thieriot talks 'Fire Country' return, 'Sheriff Country' spinoff and the fatal LA fires Show Caption Hide Caption Max Thieriot reveals what firefighters tell him about 'Fire Country' "Fire Country" creator and star Max Thieriot reveals to USA TODAY's Ralphie Aversa what firefighters tell him about the hit CBS show. NEW YORK - March Madness may be winding down on CBS, but the tension is still ramping up on the network's hit TV show "Fire Country," which follows a prison release firefighting program that is teamed up with full-time first responders in Northern California. "This is a really exciting episode," the show's star and creator, Max Thieriot, tells USA TODAY ahead of Season 3's return (Friday, 9 ET/PT). Take Morena Baccarin's character, Sheriff Mickey Fox: "Now we get to really dive deeper into her story. Even though it's a 'Fire Country' episode, there's a lot of new texture to it." Thieriot, 36, explains that learning more about Mickey is intentional: She will headline a new spinoff, "Sheriff Country," this fall. "We quickly realized how fans responded to this sense of community and the sense of family and some of the fabric that is "Fire Country," the series co-creator says of the upcoming spinoff. After seeing fans' reactions from the series' first six episodes in 2022, "I was like, 'I got four different spinoffs.' I was ready to go." His agent told him to "settle down and take a breath," which Thieriot did, although he admits he's "always thinking ahead." Flashback: 'SEAL Team' star Max Thieriot pours heart, hometown into 'Fire Country'; hit drama 'is my baby' The next 'Fire Country' episode was filmed before the California wildfires In January, a massive wildfire killed at least 29 and burned over 37,000 acres in southern California, devastating neighborhoods and livelihoods. In a now-viral video, a sky cam from Fox's Los Angeles station captured a water drop executed by first responders over a burgeoning fire in the Hollywood Hills. The drop completely extinguished the flames. Viewers of Friday's "Fire Country" episode will see a similar water drop, but the episode was filmed before the real-life January wildfires. Viewers have already seen a fictionalized version of a program that uses incarcerated people as volunteer firefighters. The program has been criticized, including recently by Kim Kardashian, for not properly compensating the workers. "Clearly with the Los Angeles wildfires, so much attention was brought to the inmate firefighter program," Thieriot says. "As devastating and tragic and unfathomable as the (wildfires) were, the takeaway I think that we get from that stuff is learning how to be more proactive next time, learning and understanding what these firefighters do and what they sacrifice. "I guess that's also how I feel you have to reflect on any difficult situation, right? 'OK, how do we come out of this stronger?' To see Los Angeles (receive) the outpouring and outreach of support from other states and agencies and firefighting nice to see in times like this." Season 3 wrapped filming in late February, but Thieriot says the tragedy did not impact production of the series. Remaining episodes feature a cameo from country music singer Jelly Roll. Thieriot directed this month's penultimate episode; the two-part finale airs April 25. The actor teases he's already tossing around Season 4 ideas, but that work on the next installment won't officially begin until May. "Our goal is to tell authentic stories and personal stories, stuff that's relatable and human," he says. "We don't change stuff to make it seem less realistic."
Yahoo
04-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Fire Country Video: Max Thieriot Talks #Bodiela ‘Challenges,' Spinoffs, and the Importance of Inmate Firefighters
What hot water has Fire Country's Bode Leone gotten him into this time? When last we tuned into the third-season CBS drama, Bode's P.O. (played by 24 alum Roger Cross) showed up on the former inmate's doorstep to confront him about associating with 'known criminals.' At the start of the TVLine video Q&A above (and below), series lead and co-creator Max Thieriot sheds some insight on his character's questionable side hustle. More from TVLine Fire Country Spinoff Crossover Preview: Sheriff Mickey Fox Is Both 'Badass' and 'Girl Scout' (Exclusive Video) CBS Reveals Finale Spoilers for 19 Shows, Including the Very Last Episodes of S.W.A.T. and Two FBIs — See Schedule Uh-Oh, Is 'Matlock' About to Get Found Out, With 3 Episodes Still Left to Air? Thieriot then further tees up this Friday night's episode, which marks the second appearance by upcoming Sheriff Country spinoff star Morena Baccarin, as Sheriff Mickey Fox, and introduces W. Earl Brown as Mickey's father, Wes. Thieriot talks about reuniting with Brown, who played a small but memorable figure on A&E's Bates Motel back in the day — and whom you might not realize starred in There's Something About Mary! After Thieriot talks a bit about next Friday's episode (which finds Station 42 responding to an accident at a ski resort, and with which Mother Nature did not quite cooperate), the topic turns to the roller coaster that is the Bode/Gabriela (Stephanie Arcila) romance. I recap a mere fraction of the pairing's highs and lows, and invite Thieriot to weigh in on their endgame status and the 'challenges' in moving that story forward in fresh ways. We also talk a bit about what Audrey (Leven Rambin) brought to the party this season, after which Thieriot answers a very direct reader question about #Bodiela's future. At the 8:30 mark, Thieriot and I talk about how Fire Country's midseason two-parter eerily mirrored the L.A. wildfires that broke out during the hiatus, and how important it was for real-life prison fire camps to get some attention as they helped battles those California blazes. The video Q&A then wraps with me asking what's what with Fire Country's other, potential spinoff, that would be led by Season 3 guest star and Supernatural vet Jared of TVLine Yellowjackets' Tawny Cypress Talks Episode 4's Tai/Van Reunion: 'We're All Worried About Taissa' Vampire Diaries Turns 10: How Real-Life Plot Twists Shaped Everything From the Love Triangle to the Final Death Vampire Diaries' Biggest Twists Revisited (and Explained)
