{"id":522558,"date":"2022-12-07T03:59:40","date_gmt":"2022-12-07T00:59:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/fire-country-star-kevin-alejandro-directs-cbs-dramas-cliffhanger-fall-finale\/"},"modified":"2022-12-07T03:59:40","modified_gmt":"2022-12-07T00:59:40","slug":"fire-country-star-kevin-alejandro-directs-cbs-dramas-cliffhanger-fall-finale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/fire-country-star-kevin-alejandro-directs-cbs-dramas-cliffhanger-fall-finale\/","title":{"rendered":"#&#8217;Fire Country&#8217; star Kevin Alejandro directs CBS drama&#8217;s cliffhanger fall finale"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3ab79e729ec\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3ab79e729ec\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/fire-country-star-kevin-alejandro-directs-cbs-dramas-cliffhanger-fall-finale\/#%E2%80%9C%E2%80%98Fire_Country_star_Kevin_Alejandro_directs_CBS_dramas_cliffhanger_fall_finale%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;&#8216;Fire Country&#8217; star Kevin Alejandro directs CBS drama&#8217;s cliffhanger fall finale&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9C%E2%80%98Fire_Country_star_Kevin_Alejandro_directs_CBS_dramas_cliffhanger_fall_finale%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;&#8216;Fire Country&#8217; star Kevin Alejandro directs CBS drama&#8217;s cliffhanger fall finale&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n        <\/aside>\n<p>Kevin Alejandro shifts into his \u201cplayer\/manager\u201d mode for Friday night\u2019s fall finale of \u201cFire Country\u201d on CBS.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/kevinmalejandro\/?hl=en\">The veteran actor<\/a> (\u201cLucifer,\u201d \u201cTrue Blood,\u201d \u201cSouthland\u201d) \u2014 who co-stars on the hit freshman <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">series<\/a> about convicts training as firefighters \u2014 also directed the episode (9 p.m.), in which his character, Cal Fire Captain Manny Perez, is confronted with a life-or-death decision when a car is struck by a hit-and-run driver and wedged precariously between a guardrail. It\u2019s one wrong move away from plunging into the river below with its two occupants, one of whom is unconscious, as Bode (Max Thieriot), Vince (<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/billy_burke?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor\">Billy Burke<\/a>) <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt16098700\/\">and the \u201cFire Country\u201d crew<\/a> clash over how to avoid casualties.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a lot of pressure knowing it\u2019s the [midseason] finale but it\u2019s also a great honor because there are people who trust you enough to say, \u2018You know what, I think you can do this, let\u2019s move forward,&#8217;\u201d Alejandro, 46, told The Post. \u201cI knew I was going to direct an episode this season, I just didn\u2019t know which one.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"681\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/kevin-alejandro-directing-4.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Kevin Alejandro in action directing Friday night's midseason finale of &quot;Fire Country&quot; on CBS. He's wearing Manny's yellow firefighter uniform and holding what looks like an iPad while he watches a scene.\" class=\"wp-image-24904651\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/kevin-alejandro-directing-4.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/kevin-alejandro-directing-4.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/kevin-alejandro-directing-4.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Kevin Alejandro in action directing Friday night\u2019s midseason finale of \u201cFire Country\u201d on CBS.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">CBS<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This isn\u2019t Alejandro\u2019s first rodeo behind the camera. He directed five episodes of the Fox\/Netflix series \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lucifer_(TV_series)\">Lucifer,<\/a>\u201d in which he played<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/lucifer.fandom.com\/wiki\/Dan_Espinoza\"> Det. Dan Espinoza<\/a>, including the penultimate episode (\u201cGoodbye, Lucifer\u201d) of its sixth and final season.<\/p>\n<p>And, after shooting the \u201cFire Country\u201d pilot, Alejandro was hired to direct Episode 6 of the upcoming Disney+ series \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2022\/09\/national-treasure-edge-of-history-trailer-premiere-date-disney-plus-catherine-zeta-jones-1235113673\/\">National Treasure<\/a>,\u201d starring Catherine Zeta-Jones.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI cut my teeth as a director at this level on \u2018Lucifer,&#8217;\u201d he said. \u201c[Creator] Joe Henderson and the showrunner, Ildy Modrovich \u2026 said \u2018You want to [direct]? We\u2019re going to make sure that by the end of this show you\u2019re going to have no problems getting a job as a director afterward.\u2019 They threw some of their biggest episodes at me and \u2026 and when I stepped off that show were people went, \u2018OK, he\u2019s been trusted with some pretty big responsibilities. Let\u2019s not overlook that.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Part of Alejandro\u2019s challenge in directing \u201cFire Country\u201d was balancing its different tones in   in context and pacing (action vs. a supernatural dramedy) vis-\u00e1-vis \u201cLucifer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2018Lucifer\u2019 was about composing the perfect pictures and moving the camera elegantly,\u201d he said. \u201cIt was about the emotions of the characters. Both shows are similar in a lot of aspects, but [\u2018Fire Country\u2019] is grittier and we\u2019re running with the actors [with a camera] and passing from actor to actor. It\u2019s not so much composing, as we did with how beautiful \u2018Lucifer\u2019 turned out \u2014 this is raw and gritty and it leans into that handheld style. It\u2019s almost like documentary-style filmmaking sometimes.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/kevin-alejandro-fire-country-3.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Kevin Alejandro and &quot;Fire Country&quot; co-star Jordan Calloway in a scene from Friday night's episode. \" class=\"wp-image-24904670\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/kevin-alejandro-fire-country-3.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/kevin-alejandro-fire-country-3.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/kevin-alejandro-fire-country-3.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Kevin Alejandro and \u201cFire Country\u201d co-star Jordan Calloway in a scene from Friday night\u2019s episode. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">CBS<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cI got seven full episodes to watch [before directing Friday night\u2019s episode],\u201d he said. \u201cI had an \u2018on-set class\u2019 of how to run the show, so by the time I was in the [director\u2019s] chair I knew what I was doing. You can\u2019t fake your way through it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Alejandro said that, as in the cases of both \u201cLucifer\u201d and \u201cNational Treasure,\u201d the \u201cFire Country\u201d producers made sure he was up to speed on the show \u2014 although he didn\u2019t need much help in that department.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne of the advantages of being an actor\/director on a series is that you do have the opportunity, from Day One, to read every single <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">script<\/a>, which I did up until Episode 8,\u201d he said. \u201cI know everyone\u2019s journey. I had the opportunity to not only read the scripts but to see what the other directors had done and see the pace of the show as they were editing everything together, so that was tremendously helpful.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"681\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/fire-country-1.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Bode (series star Max Thieriot) and Vince (Billy Burke) spring into action when a car teeters on a guardrail and is in danger of falling into the river below and killing its two occupants.\" class=\"wp-image-24904715\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/fire-country-1.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/fire-country-1.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/fire-country-1.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Bode (series star Max Thieriot) and Vince (Billy Burke) spring into action when a car teeters on a guardrail and is in danger of falling into the river below and killing it\u2019s two occupants.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">CBS<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m also the type of actor who tries to say on-set as much as I can,\u201d he said. \u201cI spend very little time in my trailer and I stand-in for myself, as well. I never went to film school so <em>this<\/em> is my film school; I\u2019m on the set talking with the camera crew and learning the technical aspects, so when I\u2019m in the director\u2019s chair I understand the verbiage and I know what they\u2019re talking about. It\u2019s a giant puzzle as you go through the episode but I love puzzles, thank goodness.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>CBS renewed \u201cFire Country\u201d for the entire season, so viewers will see much more of Manny when the series returns Jan. 6 following Friday night\u2019s episode.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne of the first things that attracted me to the character in the first place was knowing he his a human being who has a lot of responsibilities taking firefighters and letting them know there\u2019s light at the end of the tunnel, [that] there\u2019s a chance at redemption,\u201d he said. \u201cI love that Manny went through that same system. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne of the most important things about his journey up to this point is that you see him with this strength \u2026 but you also see him falter, you see him shake and sometimes not make the right decision,\u201d he said, \u201cBut he has the ability to pull himself back out so he can maintain the right track on life.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async defer src=\"https:\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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