After Oliver Stark’s first day of filming one of 9-1-1’s most ambitious, high-scale disaster episodes — Season 3’s “Sink or Swim,” which showed a tsunami hitting the Santa Monica pier — he went back to his hotel room, hopped in a hot shower, and cried over the realization that he was living his dream. Four seasons later, he still experiences those overwhelming feelings of accomplishment and pride for his role on the hit first responder drama.
“Are you asking if I’m still crying in the shower?” Stark said with a chuckle during a Zoom call with Decider. “On occasion, but for different reasons.”
The 32-year-old actor who plays firefighter Evan “Buck” Buckley on 9-1-1, now in its seventh season, no longer sobs while he shampoos these days, but he “absolutely” has moments of immense gratitude for the show and its success.
“Especially over the last few weeks, there has obviously been a lot of attention on 9-1-1— and I’ve been at the …