9-1-1’s Oliver Stark Reacts to Fans and Haters After Buck’s Gay Kiss

Oliver Stark has a information for the supporters — and the haters — following Buck kissed Tommy on ABC’s 9-1-1.

“Humbled and overcome by the optimistic reaction to Buck’s storyline,” Stark, 32, wrote through Instagram Story on Saturday, April 6, two days right after the 100th episode of 9-1-1 highlighted his character kissing a man for the initial time. “I’ve study so numerous of your messages and I couldn’t be prouder.”

Though quite a few admirers have been hoping to see Buck check out his sexuality for decades, the actor acknowledged that not every person was content with the tale line.

“If you are a person of the more compact group of folks commenting on my posts about how this has ruined the clearly show, I would like you to know that I definitely don’t care,” he wrote. “This is a show about really like and inclusion. It’s highlighted queer interactions from he quite starting which include a lovely Black lesbian marriage performed out by two of the ideal actresses I have ever viewed.”

Paramedic Henrietta “Hen” Wilson (Aisha Hinds) and spouse Karen Wilson (Tracie Thoms) share son Denny and have been main characters because the 2018 pilot, and they are only two of numerous LGBTQ+ figures with substantial tale lines on 9-1-1.

Stark concluded, “If a person other character discovering a new side to his sexuality and noticing his bisexuality is your deal breaker — I worry you have missed the complete issue of the clearly show. You are not necessary to announce your departure.”

Evan “Buck” Buckley (Stark) and firefighter Tommy Kinard (Lou Ferrigno Jr.) kissed on the 100th episode, which aired Thursday, April 4. Supporters of Buck and Eddie Diaz’s (Ryan Guzman) friendship have extended hoped that Buck would check out his sexuality, and Stark unveiled that he stepped back again from social media mainly because it was really hard not to publicly agree with the shippers.

“I withdrew myself a whole lot from social media because you would see these issues [about Buck] and I would concur … but I could not concur, suitable?” he informed TVLine on Thursday. “It was this sort of a good line, simply because if factors did not come about, then I’d have been estimate-unquote queerbaiting. So thank you [to those fans] for sticking with the story, and I hope there is an ingredient of it that feels appropriate. I also hope you continue on to continue to be on board and delight in the story as we tell it.”

Before this 7 days, Stark solely explained to Us Weekly that the story line bordering Buck’s sexual identity will continue on all over time 7, and his wrestle is 1 that is universally relatable: you really don’t know what is “missing until you have light-weight shined on it.”

“And I believe that’s sort of the tale that we’re in a position to commence to tell below, is that Buck isn’t consciously mindful of the thing that he’s looking for or what’s lacking in his lifestyle,” Stark shared with Us. “And as he hopefully begins to find that it is this cathartic, liberating experience of just remaining capable to simplicity into it and breathe out this massive sigh of reduction at past.”

9-1-1 time 7 airs Thursdays at 8 p.m. ET on ABC.