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Jeff Conway: Oliver, you are now seven seasons into 9-1-1 playing Evan “Buck” Buckley. As an actor, what continues to interest and motivate you most to keep telling these often larger-than-life rescue stories on primetime television?
These seven seasons into the action-packed drama series 9-1-1, actor Oliver Stark continues to save the day as brave firefighter Evan “Buck” Buckley at Station 118. However, during the show’s milestone 100th episode on April 4, Buck arguably took his greatest leap yet in exploring his sexuality, having his first on-screen kiss with another man.
In last night’s episode on ABC, Buck took even greater steps towards embracing his newfound feelings, by coming out to some of his closest family and friends. I sat down with the London-born British actor today to discuss his 9-1-1 character’s evolving storyline and where these latest developments might take the show next
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Oliver Stark: You know what? I think it’s kind of what you just eluded to there, right? We get to tell these stories and they speak to people in different ways. These are characters who are, more than anything, tools of representation to have stories told through them. If we can keep moving the story forward and tell stories in an interesting and authentic way that then an audience member can sit down and see something of themselves in and feel like they’re seeing a reflection of themselves – that’s exciting to me as an actor because that’s connection to the audience, and making work that says something and has a purpose
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