Could ‘SEAL Team’ Get a Revival? David Boreanaz Talks Chance of Playing Jason Hayes Again

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David Boreanaz knew that SEAL Team Season 7 was going to be it.

“The trauma is your first kill. How do you deal with that? Starting the season, it was like, ‘Okay, this is the perfect way to wrap that cycle up for this character,'” the star and executive producer tells TV Insider. “I knew that that was the right way and I knew going in before the writers’ strike that I was done. I had expressed my interest not to do the show anymore. I was finished regardless of even if they wanted to do two more seasons, one more season, I was done. So then the writers’ strike hit and it became six months later and that had already been decided.”

So how did he know that he was done?

“A few things. My body physically and mentally had found a space that was in sync with the character and knew that that would no longer continue,” he explains. “And I just felt like it was something that I was very clear with and it just made sense and it just unraveled naturally. So it wasn’t really a hard decision really to come up with. It just was a natural progression into a special operator, what he deals with, how he goes through certain things.”

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He continues, “We looked at Jason’s character as far as being a little bit on the outside. We examined that one season where he was kind of sidelined and he was operating from command with everyone else and it doesn’t fit his character. It’s not in me to put that uniform on and be on the sidelines. And I knew early on when we did that specifically, this is not something I want to continue with, with a character like this being the sidelines. It’s not his personality, it’s not his drive. And I think the way this goes out is a testimony to how true we wanted to shoot this series and actively thinking this could be the one bullet that ends it forever for him.”

That echoes what he’s said before, that the battlefield could be “the ultimate end” for Jason.

When he was previously on the sidelines and not supposed to be managing Bravo, he was still focused on Bravo. “He was,” Boreanaz agrees. “And there’s that. It’s the control of the tip of the spear. Where are you going to go with it? How are you going to maneuver it? Where are you going to put your boys in?”

That goes back to what he loves and respects about his character. “He was a real instinctual guy, operated from his gut. He took chances. He was very impulsive, but he’s always found a way out, which I loved about that character,” says the star. “That is something that I hold near and dear with. I love the fact that it was so exciting to play him, but one thing that was hard to play was the depths of TBI, PTS, the nightmares. That was very difficult for me and I’m just glad that I got through it, did it. And now I can let go.”

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Does this mean he’s ruling out playing Jason again in any sort of revival in the future? “I don’t want to give away the end, so he may not be able to do that,” Boreanaz cautions.

Still, he points out that any sort of revival wouldn’t necessarily have to take place after the end of the series. “I think the idea of a film is always on the table because you can shoot these stories at any time, coming off a Black Hawk, it could have been two years prior, it doesn’t really matter. We went back and did a great episode about 9/11, which I thought was just a fantastic tribute to what that was all about and how it motivated these guys to get in to where they were in their profession being operators and sacrifices that they took on. But yeah, there’s always possibilities, I guess,” he allows.

How do you think SEAL Team will end? Would you want to see a revival of any kind after the end of the series?

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