Oliver Stark: 9-1-1, Buck’s Love Journey & The Importance of Finding Your People (Re-Release)
Elvis Duran and the Morning Show ON DEMAND
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🗓️ 3 March 2026
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
This week Tommy is joined by actor Oliver Stark, best known for his starring role in the smash hit drama series 9-1-1 on ABC. 9-1-1 is one of the most watched shows on primetime television, chronicling the high-pressure experiences of first responders who are thrust into the most frightening, shocking and heart-stopping situations. What makes this show even more special is that we get to also see these characters lives unfold once they hang up the firefighter gear for the day. Oliver plays the confident and compassionate firefighter, Evan Buckley (aka Buck) and quickly became a fan favorite on the show since day one. Today, Oliver opens up about Buck’s realization that he is bisexual, why he will always stand by storylines that are about inclusion and love, the moment he decided to make an Instagram post to show support for the LGBTQ+ community, what he hopes we will see with Buck’s journey in the future, what he has most learned about himself through doing this show, the thing that this Buck would tell Buck from Season 1, the relationship between Eddie and Buck that had many people talking about, and how he wishes he focused more on building friendships throughout the last decade of his life. This episode originally aired April 30, 2024.
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| 0:00.0 | Oliver, my man. How you doing? It's good to see you. I'm doing very well. I'm excited to be here. |
| 0:10.2 | Well, I'm happy to have you. We're going to dive in because, first of all, you recently pretty much broke the internet. |
| 0:18.5 | And I think you know what I'm talking about. And that is, of course, that |
| 0:22.6 | your character Buck recently came to the realization that he is bisexual. And it's pretty |
| 0:29.2 | cool because there have been breadcrumbs, I feel like, throughout the entire series. But I do |
| 0:32.9 | think this is a newer thing for him. Like, to me, it doesn't feel like this was particularly |
| 0:37.3 | planned over all the years. And I know to me, it doesn't feel like this was particularly planned over all the |
| 0:39.1 | years. And I know for you, it was something you very much welcomed and you wanted to dive into this. |
| 0:44.0 | So why is that? Why were you excited to take on this new part of who he is? I think for a number of |
| 0:49.5 | reasons, right? So first of all, I do think, and not in any kind of like intentional way, but I do think if you, you know, look back through the years of the show that there are breadcrumbs that have been leading to something, right? |
| 1:04.2 | To some kind of, I'm not happy with myself or there's a side of myself that I am not quite in tune with yet. |
| 1:14.4 | So I was excited from that perspective, like purely a kind of storytelling perspective. |
| 1:20.3 | But then I also think this is a really uniquely positioned character to do this with, right? |
| 1:27.3 | Where listen, we're on a network television show. |
| 1:31.2 | This is a character who, from what I've found, and I tread carefully, I don't want to sound too |
| 1:37.1 | self-congratulatory here, but he's like a lot of people have connected with him and a lot of people |
| 1:42.4 | of different demographics have connected with him and a lot of people of different demographics |
| 1:44.8 | have connected with him. So I think then to show to all these different groups of people that, |
| 1:50.4 | hey, he can be all these things and he can be bisexual, I think is a really cool message to send. |
| 1:57.6 | And yeah, I just, I think it's a really interesting character to have taken this |
| 2:02.5 | step with. Yeah. And I imagine when you've played a character for so many years that this is something |
| 2:08.2 | that is exciting. It's new. It's different. It kind of reinvigorates the role that you're playing, |
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