Max recently explained what it was like starring in Fire Country — which premieres on Friday, Oct. 7, at 9 p.m. on CBS — while staying employed on SEAL Team — the sixth season of which recently hit Paramount Plus.
“It’s obviously a juggle, but thankfully, we started SEAL Team Season 6 before we started shooting Episode 2 of Fire Country, so I was able to work it right into the gap in between,” he told reporters of the Television Critics Association last month, per Deadline.
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“It’s been crazy, but life’s crazy. I got a couple of kids to throw in there and moving around up to Vancouver to shoot a TV show. But I’m young, and I can keep up. I like staying busy, so it works for me.”
But Fire Country is a passion project for Max, who found inspiration in his Northern California hometown. “I had never tried pitching anything, or even finished writing anything before,” he said. “I’m sort of a little bit of a hummingbird where I’ll start on something, and then I’m off to like another idea. This started as one of those, but then I found myself so locked into it, and a lot of that is because it was personal, so it was easy to work on and create and move forward with.”
