The “Fire Country” star talks about the road trips, the farm equipment and the family time that keep him grounded.
For Max Thieriot, one of the creators and the star of the CBS series “Fire Country,” all roads lead back to his roots.
He was raised on a vineyard off the coast of Sonoma in Northern California. And for a while, he lived nearby on 90 acres of his own with his wife and two sons.
But “Fire Country” — about prison inmates joining elite firefighters to battle the region’s blazes in exchange for shorter sentences — shoots near Vancouver, British Columbia. So Thieriot, 35, moved his family to rural Washington, where his kids could continue to run around with the chickens and the goats.
“I wanted to try and keep the same lifestyle for my wife and my boys, and not to totally upend their world,” he said.
Alas, Thieriot still has wine in his blood.
About 14 years ago, he and a couple of childhood friends started their own vineyard. The big lesson?
“It’s much faster to do, and makes a lot more sense, when you have an entire crew,” he admitted before discussing the tractors, the road trips and the grapevines that keep him grounded.
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