For seven seasons, SEAL Staff adopted David Boreanaz‘s Jason Hayes and his group each on high-stakes missions and again house with their family members. In October, the CBS-turned-Paramount+ sequence got here to an finish.
Now, you’ll have the ability to relive all of it, with the seventh and closing season out on DVD (in addition to the whole sequence) on Tuesday, December 17. The Season 7 DVD has three discs with each episode and 35 minutes of particular options, together with deleted scenes, a gag reel, and two featurettes, “Seal Staff Season 7: Bravos Final Stand” and “Operation Colombia.” The entire sequence set has 30 discs of all 114 episodes and over 5 and a half hours of particular options, together with gag reels, deleted scenes, featurettes, and extra. In honor of the releases, TV Insider spoke with Boreanaz to look again on the present, Jason’s ending, and extra. Plus, would he do a revival of any kind?
How do you’re feeling about how Jason’s story ended on display screen?
David Boreanaz: I imply, it was applicable for a personality like this to, I believe, finish the way in which he was speculated to, exit on the battlefield. And what I like about it’s in touchdown the airplane and speaking to Spencer [Hudnut] and Chris [Chulack] about it and simply actually thought that placing him on the battlefield and never realizing what actually goes to occur subsequent is, I believe, the place he’s speculated to be. So for me, actually, it’s an awesome second to see and likewise to have shot that was actually cool. So I believe it was good. It’s very open-ended. You don’t actually know what’s going to occur to him.
After I spoke with Spencer concerning the finale, he mentioned that he thinks there’s a tragic ingredient to Jason nonetheless working. Do you agree?
Not essentially. I believe that each one of those particular operators have some sense of tragedy and unlucky traumatic responses, trauma clearly that they take care of every day. I don’t assume that ever actually goes away. So I believe that that does persist with them. Is it a bit bit much less of a burden on him? Yeah, after all. I believe the season in itself was most likely, for my part, simply too darkish for his character to undergo what he went by way of. And I believe it’s a sworn statement to realizing for myself like, Hey, this was the fitting time to finish it. For me, I had made that call earlier than the writers’ strike and I’m completely happy that I made a decision to say, that is it for me, and I’m glad that the sequence is over.
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So does that imply you wouldn’t do a film or a continuation of any form if the chance arose?
I believe a film is certainly is quite a bit simpler to do, however doing a sequence like this and the quantity of labor that it took day in and time out, it’s simply an excessive amount of, the pounding mentally and bodily. It simply actually was a burden in numerous methods. I’m very lucky and humble to have portrayed the character as a result of I simply go away all of it on the market for our veterans and for these those that have sacrificed for us. And to me, that’s what this sequence was all about, was giving again and shining gentle into these darkish corners. However a movie positively might be, properly, not simple to do, however it will be quite a bit higher on the physique, for positive.
So once you look again on the present now as an entire, your work onscreen and behind the digital camera as a director, what stands out to you?
For me, it’s the reasonable, genuine strategy that we took the present in. The best way we examined each episode and each second, I can’t inform you sufficient, and I hold repeating this phrase and I’m positive individuals hear, it’s genuine. However once you hear from actual veterans and other people which can be operators and so they cease you and so they say, thanks for doing what you probably did, you actually have hit the mark so far as exhibiting what not solely we do, however what we undergo is the most important award that I may ever think about to being humble to just accept. It to me was a development of maturity within the degree of depth that you would be able to deliver to a personality, the extent of how I can push myself bodily to endure, and likewise simply getting it finished and taking pictures from an government producer’s perspective, I understand how to use this sport to different exhibits whatever the price range and the sample that they wish to throw at me. It’s like, I’ll try this instances three after going by way of a present like this. And that simply goes right down to consistency, self-discipline, and effectivity, which is actually the navy method when you actually wish to have a look at it. In order that, to me, is actually what stands out, is giving again and having these individuals thank me for what they do and what they did. And right here I’m thanking them. So it’s an actual good give and take.
Is there every other ending that you simply significantly thought of or wished for Jason at any level?
No, I didn’t. I imply, I clearly at one level had thought, properly, perhaps this man ought to die. After which we don’t wish to see his loss of life. We’ve seen him get injured many instances. We’ve seen him get shot, which was fairly drastic to see, fairly dramatic. After which we performed with the thought of like, Hey, let’s deliver him out of the sphere and stick him within the space with Blackburn [Judd Lormand] and Davis [Toni Trucks] and attempt to name the performs from the sideline, and that didn’t work out. And for me, I by no means considered him as that sort of character anyway. He’s too rambunctious, curious, and a little bit of a wildfire sort of a man to sit down again and name performs. He must be in it. In order that didn’t work out. So for me, the restricted run of a sequence and taking it to CBS on the community degree and having or not it’s successful for them after which additionally transitioning over to a streaming platform for 2 years and making or not it’s successful for them is kind of an accomplishment. I’m very happy with that.
Is there something you didn’t get the possibility to do on SEAL Staff that you simply want you’d had time for?
No, You recognize what? I don’t actually assume—Jason and his relationship with Mandy [Jessica Paré] was fairly a really attention-grabbing one and the one which I actually sort of liked from the start of the sequence. Looking for that spot with him was at all times troublesome. And I believe it was troublesome as a result of he was so devoted to his work and devoted to the sacrifice and devoted to the job that he did. That’s what made it so complicated for him. Does it work, did it work? What occurs when he tries, what occurs when he doesn’t? I believe that’s simply the way in which it’s with him and I don’t assume that that’ll change. So no, I didn’t see something that I wished to do something extra. That’s why I made a decision I didn’t wish to do it anymore.
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