David Boreanaz is opening up about his character on SEAL Team possibly not surviving the series.
The 55-year-old actor starred as Master Chief Jason Hayes over the CBS turned Paramount+ military drama’s seven seasons.
In a new interview after the series finale, David shared if there were ever any thoughts to have his character killed off at any point during the show’s run.
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“We played with the idea in one season where he is taking more of a command in the HAVOC [control] room and trying to feel what that would feel like. Personally, for me to put the character in that situation, I didn’t feel that it made sense. I think it would be more awkward and a little bit more fish out of water,” David told Variety. “I mean, Master Chief wouldn’t really be a fish out of water, but for that situation it’d be boring. The real essence of the guy is, he would somewhat break the rules. In the open sequence of the pilot, he’d go to the other room, get the files, jump off and almost be killed. He always put himself in that situation and made a narrowing escape. That’s who he is, and I’m glad that we stuck with that.”
“As far as discussing if he would actually be killed, it crossed my mind at the end of Season 4, where I was just like, ‘Maybe we should just kill him off, and end it,’” he continued. “Because it made sense to not complete that other traumatic event that these guys suffer from, I think I would be doing the role an injustice [if we had killed him].”
David also added that he knew season seven would be the last one for him.
“Going into the season, before the writers strike, I had proclaimed that this would be it for me. It wasn’t something that was thrown upon us,” he said. “For me, it was pretty well-known, and because of this storyline and examining that third kind of trauma [after post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury], I knew I was doing the character justice.”
If you missed it, the series’ showrunner revealed what the original ending to season seven was if it wasn’t the finale.
