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[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for Fire Country Season 2 Episode 5 “This Storm Will Pass.”]
For Jake (Jordan Calloway), the most recent Fireplace Nation does begin with one thing that makes us chuckle: He spills about Genevieve probably being Bode’s (Max Thieriot) daughter to Vince (Billy Burke), Sharon (Diane Farr), and Gabriela (Stephanie Arcila)—a.ok.a. Bode’s father, mom, and ex-girlfriend—as a result of he wants somebody to know as a hearth twister rages round them.
However then all of it takes a flip, when it turns into clear that Jake’s girlfriend Cara (Sabina Gadecki)—he was considering of proposing!—is dying of accidents sustained within the ambulance crash on the finish of the earlier episode. All Jake can do is say goodbye to her over the radio (“I used to be a unique particular person earlier than we fell in love. … I used to be going to let you know thanks for loving me. I like you. I’ll at all times love you.”).
Beneath, Calloway opens up about that robust goodbye in addition to what’s forward as Jake grieves and his relationship with Bode.
How is Jake going to be dealing with Cara’s loss of life going ahead?
Jordan Calloway: He’s going by way of it. Can we begin a GoFundMe for Jake and his psychological standing? As a result of this man, y’all drag him by way of the mud. First, he loses his woman to his greatest buddy. Then he will get accused of arson, after which this. Oh my goodness, what’s subsequent? Don’t give me a canine after which take the canine away. That’s all I’m going to say. Don’t do this. [Laughs] It’s been enjoyable, actually, enjoying Jake on this interval of his life, enjoying Jake, who’s discovered love. He’s liked. He’s in a position to love. He’s been in a position to expertise love, the man that wasn’t even positive if he was able to get married in Season 1 or if he had discovered love. So I like love and seeing Jake expertise that in addition to seeing Jake lose that, it’s just like the previous adage, ‘Higher to have liked and misplaced than to not,’ proper?
So I believe within the maturation of Jake, additionally within the roles as a captain, a father, and doubtlessly a husband, I believe all of this loss, all of this stuff that he’s experiencing is barely going to make him higher as a result of he’s seeing himself by way of it. Now, if we acquired actual darkish and he didn’t, then, properly, that’s only a unhappy tragedy. However I believe with the place he’s headed to now, and the trajectory at which he’s centered, being Genevieve, I believe that’s his North star. That’s his beacon of life. That’s additionally his new hope—Star Wars reference—that takes him on this journey, his now hero’s journey of his personal self-identity, a brand new self-identity that he’s going to be taught the place he’s not depending on Cara, who was there to show him how you can open up, train him how you can speak in confidence to somebody, and likewise confidence.
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This new function of being a captain was not one which got here with ease. We have now seen it quite a few instances all through the seasons the place he will get knowledge from both Manny [Kevin Alejandro], Vince, or Sharon, and also you see a chink in his armor the place it’s like, can he do it? After which while you see this metamorphosis of the place Jake will get to in that function as a captain and discovering that confidence and stepping and standing extra in that confidence and never feeling as if it was a job that was simply given to him due to the encompassing incidents with Three Rock, with Sharon operating away, with Bode being again in jail and seeing that as like, no, I can really do that. And then you definitely additionally now have that juxtaposed with him entering into the function of being a father. These two—I believe even being a father alone in that relationship with Genevieve is what makes him an all-around higher particular person, higher captain, higher buddy. And he even calls associates out. It’s been a pleasure enjoying Jake this season with the place he’s at in his life as a result of it’s been considered one of redemption, his personal redemptive story after loss.
He’s watching over Genevieve now, however there’s the Bode of it. Jake and Bode’s relationship is so difficult and so good due to that, and so they appear to be in place. How is that going ahead, contemplating Genevieve?
It wouldn’t be drama if we didn’t have drama. I like Max. Max is nice, to begin with. However the relationship between Jake and Bode, there’s some stuff that’s been going—after which can we additionally simply observe that Cole [Tye White] is just not serving to, by the way in which? I’m associates with Tye, however Cole is just not serving to the state of affairs by, “Yeah, that must be you and that household. Oh, have a look at..” Come on, brother. Can I get some assist? I’m simply making an attempt to maintain the peace. [Laughs] It’s been a enjoyable season seeing how Bode and Jake have kind of bumped heads and clashed. Jake’s a captain of all kinds. He desires to drag the very best out of his group. We noticed that with the connection between him and Eve [Jules Latimer].
One other nice relationship.
I adore it, proper? That’s little sis. And so while you have a look at Jake and also you have a look at the conversations, he type of is that surrogate older father out of the entire new era, and he stepped into it. It’s that factor that he’s been trudging his method and discovering as a result of he didn’t know what he actually wished all through life. He was enjoying sports activities, he was chasing women, however then he discovered firefighting, and that’s what he’s discovered his groove in. However in firefighting, he’s turn out to be a pacesetter, and in management, you’ll be able to level out the strengths and weaknesses of your fellow folks which are with you, that you simply’re in command of, those that you simply’re main. In order that being the case, he desires to drag that out of Gabriela, out of Bode, out of Eve, hell out of Sharon and Manny, all of ’em. And so that you see that in that relationship [with Bode]. I believe it could be the following episode the place some stuff actually involves a head between Bode and Jake, and yeah, Bode must be introduced down just a little bit.
When Cara was dying, Jake principally proposed over the radio, which was heartbreaking. Speak about filming that.
Yeah, so at the moment, Tia [Napolitano] was on maternity depart, and Invoice Harper had stepped in as interim showrunner. David Gould had written that episode. We had a few conversations with Invoice Harper in addition to David, and I informed him and conveyed among the issues that I felt wanted to be there. A part of that was he wanted to say goodbye to Cara because it wasn’t scripted wherever else for him to say goodbye. We went by way of a few rewrites and drafts, and we finally landed on what you guys noticed, so listening to meaning a lot, figuring out that it landed properly with the viewers.
The way it boiled down for me enjoying Jake is Jake is a seasoned veteran firefighter. He is aware of that that is an open-wave radio. He has his battalion chief proper subsequent to him. He needed to have his feelings in examine. He has to have them in examine, regardless, simply being on the job. However now you place into the truth that he can’t see the love of his life and say goodbye to her. He solely hears the beep beep over the airwaves, and in addition to the truth that they’ve been going because the day prior, and so they’re mentally, bodily, emotionally fatigued. All of these components enjoying in, now, one thing’s improper with Cara. What do you imply? I’m listening to over the radio waves, all I can do is rush to get there. That [beeeep] hits, you don’t know what to do. I’m mentally fatigued, I’m emotionally drained, bodily beat up, however I’ve to have some kind of management of my feelings as a result of the most important factor is I’m a captain and there’s an open radio wave the place everybody can hear me.
And so I believe there was a interval the place it was written the place he has an emotional break. I used to be like, we will’t do this. But it surely’s taking all of that stuff and ensuring that it’s pushed down. That’s the place we get our greatest drama, that you simply really feel that. It was enjoyable having the ability to play the alternative of a radio, basically, however that’s what we do. And for me, it actually boiled right down to, okay, how does Jake really feel about not having the ability to say goodbye to his love? It simply got here right down to that.
Is that emotional break coming? Can it come for him? As a result of he has to consider Gen and about being captain too.
Season 1, you bought that emotional break. I don’t know if we present that. I believe what we’re experiencing extra so all through the remainder of the season for Jake’s journey is his restoration and him dealing with every little thing that has lately been thrown upon him—not simply the loss of life of Cara, however him desirous to be and stepping up into being Genevieve’s father as a result of that is the one factor that he has left of Cara, and so he desires to be a father determine for her. However as he stated within the episode prior, “I’ll at all times be Uncle Jake.” So I believe for Jake, that’s the journey that he’s going on, is exhibiting the method of his restoration. Whether or not he has an enormous emotional break, I haven’t seen it but, however keep tuned.
There’s at all times Season 3…
Season 3’s coming. There’s a lot to play with. I simply love the truth that Cara was his actual love. So I don’t need to muddy that up by discovering someone else and stepping into one other—I’d like to have a complete season the place he’s simply pouring into this little woman every little thing that he can, and who is aware of, play with a brand new love curiosity and the humor of my little surrogate white daughter and the way she could really feel about whoever I’m going to convey house.
Fireplace Nation, Fridays, 9/8c, CBS
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