Actor Oliver Stark (9-1-1) sits for a moment with creative director Andrew Matarazzo for Nineteen92 Issue 014!

N92: Being on a show that constantly confronts mortality, has it changed how you think about time, purpose, or what really matters? How has your perspective evolved since starting this journey?
OS: I was just 26 when starting my 9-1-1 journey. In your mid 20’s it’s hard to see the future. I would go as far as to say there is no future, only now. A 5 year plan to me, at the age of 26, was irrelevant. Time was infinite and as aging came to challenge me I felt fresh and ready to outrun it. Would I have a family one day? Maybe, there’s plenty of time. Would I get married? Maybe, there’s plenty of time. Would I own a house? Maybe, there’s plenty of time. But time is sneaky. Time doesn’t take pause to concern itself with the opinions of others. The clock doesn’t care if you’re watching as its hands tick by. Time works on its own and if you’re not careful, it will work in silence. It will tip-toe away behind your back and slip out into the night never to be seen again. We all felt this, I’m sure, during the pandemic years. 2 years that crept out in the darkness never to return. On 9-1-1 we are often confronted with life and death situations. For those characters on the fatal side of those stories, we witness an abrupt end to the time they presumed to have left. This has never been more apparent than in the untimely demise of Bobby Nash, played by Peter Krause. Playing these scenes has acted as a constant reminder to me that I was wrong at 26. Time is not infinite. It is the most finite resource we have.