SEAL Workforce got here to an finish earlier within the fall 2024 TV schedule after seven seasons, 114 episodes, one community TV cancellation, and a change over to a streamer that proved to be the perfect platform. David Boreanaz starred as Jason Hayes, the lead of Bravo Workforce, however there was much more to Jason’s struggles than his action-packed adventures. Now, with the ultimate season and full run of the sequence quickly to be obtainable in a method past a Paramount+ subscription, Boreanaz mirrored to CinemaBlend on why he initially handed on SEAL Workforce and is so proud now.
With each SEAL Workforce‘s closing season and full sequence obtainable through DVD as of December 17, the time could not be higher to look again at the place the hit drama began and what might have been very totally different. After I spoke with Boreanaz about the whole present arriving on bodily media in addition to streaming, I famous that it has at all times struck me as fairly cinematic for a TV manufacturing. Boreanaz responded:
That pilot was shot in New Orleans, and I had initially been provided this function by the community, and I turned it down. I did not need to transfer to New Orleans and there was no ice for my child to go ice skating. I had simply completed a sequence, and I used to be like, ‘I am not shifting to New Orleans.’ Happily, it got here again round, which I’ve by no means heard of. It was simply destiny that I might are available in, and [I] parachuted right into a present that was three days into manufacturing, had an enormous amount of cash in it, and was bleeding. And I got here in and saved the present. It could have been DOA, for positive. That is the best way I have a look at it.
Again in SEAL Workforce‘s CBS days, the community evidently had its eye on David Boreanaz for Jason Hayes earlier than the actor was able to signal on for one more lead function. He had simply completed twelve seasons as main man of Bones over on Fox, which had adopted 5 seasons of Angel and a recurring gig on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Happily, the chance arose a second time, Boreanaz signed on as Jason Hayes, and the remainder is historical past. Boreanaz went on:
Cinematically, once I arrived, it was like, ‘That is how we’re capturing it.’ When you may have a director of images by the title of Jimmy Muro, who has shot Dances with Wolves, Warmth, Kevin Costner’s Horizon, they need to suppose scope and manufacturing worth. And we achieved that. Additionally, we have been very reside with it. We had no rehearsals, actually no rehearsals. It was get a digital camera, stick it within the particular person’s face, and let’s go. So the vitality was actual. It was alive.
The vitality was so “actual” and “alive” that David Boreanaz had determined even earlier than the cancellation that he was “executed with the present,” and it is attention-grabbing to think about what SEAL Workforce may need had in retailer with what was written earlier than information broke that Season 7 can be the final. He continued, explaining what the expertise of becoming a member of the present could possibly be like for newcomers and what about that makes him proud now:
I at all times mentioned [for] those who got here on, it was very simple to get uncovered for those who weren’t ready for the function that you simply’re taking part in on the present. However what’s nice about it’s how the forged would encompass the particular person and elevate them up and truly help that and say, ‘Hey, we will do that.’ That is actually now an enormous, proud achievement that every one of us had, so far as the forged was involved.
The forged coming collectively to elevate up newcomers is just one ingredient of SEAL Workforce that David Boreanaz was happy with throughout our dialog, as he went on to share that he is “very proud that we have been in a position to maintain it and have our followers proceed to stroll with us to a different platform” after the CBS cancellation. He additionally shared what it means to have performed Jason Hayes for the higher a part of a decade regardless of the toll:
Having the ability to play a personality like this for therefore a few years was onerous on my physique, bodily and mentally, and I used to be simply so pleased to complete this sequence. After we shot in Colombia on that final day, it was the largest weight off of my shoulders, on so many ranges. The followers have been incredible. They appear to have favored it. For the veterans… most vital to me was, ‘Hey, this can be a love letter to people who serve, people who have served and sacrificed.’ The most important award I might get from a present like that is really having them say ‘Thanks’ or say ‘You saved my life. You allowed me to seek out the power to get assist coping with TBI or PTSD,’ no matter that’s. So I am very happy with that.
SEAL Workforce could have been cinematic and action-packed from the very first episode, however lots of the story was devoted to the members of Bravo processing that depth after they have been house and making an attempt to select up regular lives. Typically, that concerned post-traumatic stress and traumatic mind accidents, and David Boreanaz evidently acquired suggestions from real-life veterans about how seeing that on display screen helped them. Who would not be happy with that?
If you wish to revisit the seventh season or sequence as a complete together with some particular options that you simply will not discover streaming, you’ll find them on DVD from retailers now. The SEAL Workforce: The Closing Season set spans three discs and gives greater than 35 minutes of particular options, together with deleted scenes, featurettes, and the always-popular blooper reel.
Should you’re searching for SEAL Workforce: The Full Collection, you’ll find each episode of David Boreanaz’s present throughout a whopping 30 discs, and particular options totaling greater than five-and-a-half hours of particular options. Each units can be found now with extra to supply than you may discover on Paramount+, simply in time for the vacations!