Fire Country's Billy Burke wants fans to support Vince and Sharon
Bill Burke believes that no one should give up Fire country's Vince and Sharon Leone — even with their rough season 2.
Warning: Spoilers below for Fire Country Season 2, Episode 1.
“I think no matter what happens between Vince and Sharon, I think people are still going to support it,” Burke, 57, said exclusively We weekly while promoting season 2 of the CBS drama.
Burke, who plays battalion chief Vince Leone, mentioned his character's relationship with his wife Sharon (Diane Farr), an 'idealistic relationship' that will be further explored.
“What we're trying to do is make it more relatable to people who are in a similar relationship. Who have an eternal responsibility to each other and the people around them,” Burke explains. “So I think that's the dynamic that people can invest in.”
He teased, “As for what will happen, again, I don't know, I'm just going along for the ride like everyone else does.”
During the season 2 premiere, which aired on Friday, February 16, viewers learned that after Sharon was given a clean bill of health following her kidney transplant, she took a sabbatical. That break also included time away from Vince and away from their son Bode (Max Thieriot), who had been in prison for six months at the beginning of the episode.
When Sharon returned to Edgewater, she seemed cold towards Vince, who had been holding down the fort and had only visited Bode in her absence. “I haven't slept in months,” Vince said in the episode, to which Sharon joked, “I know exactly how you feel.”
Fire Country centers on convict Bode Donovan (Max Thieriot) and the members of the Cal Fire team, including their red-hot romances. During Season 1, Bode returns to his hometown and joins Cal Fire in exchange for a reduced prison sentence. While there, he gets into a love triangle between his former BFF and firefighter Jake […]
Elsewhere in the episode, the couple shared a sweet embrace and seemed like they were back on the same page about their marriage, but not about Bode's situation. (Bode lied about bringing drugs to Three Rock, the convict fire camp, during the season 1 finale, which led to him going back to prison.)
“I don't think Sharon has really changed her mind,” Burke said Us earlier this month, noting that he thinks she's “mourning the loss of time” and everything she's “invested in her son.”
Burke explained, “The way she handles it and the way Vince handles it is really just flipped [the situation] on each other's heads. I think he's probably mourning the loss of time and now trying to get back into it.
Burke said Us that while Sharon was away, Vince chose to do some “soul searching” that led to him leaning on the family he had close, namely Bode in prison. He noted that Sharon was simultaneously trying to “find herself” and come to terms with their current problem.
As the season progressed, Burke teased that Vince is “back to a place of rooting for his son again,” which Sharon will hopefully get on board with as well.
Fire country airs on CBS Fridays at 9pm ET.