Stephanie Arcila. Sergei Bachlakov/CBS
Stephanie Arcila is rather like Us and was completely stunned by Hearth Nation’s season 2 premiere proposal — regardless that it concerned her character, Gabriela Perez.
Warning: Spoilers beneath for Hearth Nation season 2, episode 1.
“I used to be in shock, however then, on the similar time, not,” Arcila, 33, completely informed Us Weekly of Gabriela’s engagement. “As a result of, I imply, if Bode wasn’t in jail, would they be getting married? Their relationship occurs so shortly, too!”
Arcila confessed, “I believe Gabriela — a great Latina — is a romantic. [She] needs love and may be very passionate in expressing it in how she is together with her associates, together with her household, together with her accomplice.”
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Throughout the Hearth Nation season 1 finale, which aired in Might 2023, Bode (Max Thieriot) falsely confessed to bringing medication into Three Rock convict camp, so his pal Freddy (W. Tré Davis) would get a deal and be let out. On the time, Bode informed Gabriela to not look forward to him.
When the present picks up for season 2, viewers study that Gabriela and Bode broke up after he headed again to jail. Throughout the season premiere on Friday, February 16, Bode is six months into his jail keep and Gabriela has discovered love with another person: paramedic firefighter, Diego (Rafael De La Fuente).
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After celebrating their four-month anniversary within the episode, Diego proposes to Gabriela, and he or she accepts. “Eve, I’m engaged! I proposed and he did too. It was spontaneous and so us,” Gabriela says within the closing scene.
When Gabriela turns her head, she realizes that Bode is again at Three Rock. “I’m so completely satisfied for you,” Bode says earlier than the episode ends. Earlier within the premiere, Bode’s former enemy, Sleeper (Grant Harvey), agrees to admit to being the actual drug smuggler, which permits Bode the chance to get out of jail and as soon as once more work at Three Rock to knock time without work his sentence.
“I used to be positively in shock, as a result of I don’t prefer to anticipate issues. I prefer to be stunned,” Arcila informed Us in February of the bombshell engagement. “Once I learn it, I referred to as a few of my different castmates and I’m like, ‘Did you see that? I’m engaged! We’re engaged!’ What is that this?’”
The actress defined that as season 2 unfolds, viewers will see how Gabriela processes the proposal and Bode’s return to Edgewater. “We’re going to see and learn the way that develops and the way she feels even when she doesn’t say how she feels,” Arcila teased.
Arcila informed Us that she hasn’t “discovered but” if there will likely be a love triangle involving Gabriela, Bode and Diego. “I believe what we are going to see is that love that she nonetheless has for Bode,” she revealed. “And [Gabriela] making an attempt to combat and determine what’s finest for her. You’ll positively really feel it and also you’ll positively see it, however on the finish of the day, they each need one another to genuinely be completely satisfied they usually each need the most effective for one another.”
Arcila famous that there’s “such a deep love” and a “lovely connection” between Gabriela and Bode, so Gabriela will “all the time love him” on some degree.
“I believe there will likely be a shift in her maturity as nicely that individuals will see,” Arcila informed Us, including, “I believe [that] her coronary heart is making an attempt to simply construct again up from these million little items that had been damaged within the final season.”
Hearth Nation airs on CBS Fridays at 9 p.m. ET.
