David Boreanaz on How He’s ‘Done’ with ‘SEAL Team’ and Whether He’d Do It Again David Boreanaz knows SEAL Team Season 7 will be a sequel.

“Shocking is the first time you kill someone. How do you deal with that? I started the season thinking, ‘Okay, this is the perfect way to end that cycle for this character,’” the star and executive producer told TV Insider. “I knew it was the right way, and I knew I was done before the writers’ strike. I had expressed my desire to not do the show anymore. I was done regardless of whether they wanted to do two more seasons or one more season, I was done. So then the writers’ strike happened and six months later, it was decided.”

“A couple of things. My body physically and mentally found a space out of sync with the character and knew that it wasn’t going to continue,” he explained. “And I just felt like it was something that I was very clear about and it just made sense and it just happened naturally. So it wasn’t really a hard decision to make. It was just the natural progression of being a special operations officer, what he’s faced with, how he goes through certain things.” “We looked at Jason’s character in a slightly outsider way,” he continued. “We looked at a season where he was sidelined and he was operating at the behest of everyone else and that didn’t fit his character. I didn’t want to put on that uniform and be on the sidelines. And I knew from the beginning when we were doing it, this is not something I wanted to continue, with a character like this who is on the sidelines. That’s not his character, that’s not his motivation. And I think the way that came out was a testament to the fact that we really wanted to spin this series and actively thought that this could be the bullet that ended it for him forever.”

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

Before, when he was on the sidelines and not supposed to be managing Bravo, he was still focused on Bravo. “He was,” Boreanaz agreed. “And that’s what it is. It’s about being able to control the spear. Where are you going to go with it? How are you going to control it? Where are you going to put your guys?”

It comes down to what he loves and respects about his character. “He’s a really instinctive guy, he operates on his intuition. He takes chances. He’s very impulsive, but he always finds a way out, which is what I love about that character,” the star says. “That’s something I really appreciate and love. I love the fact that it’s so much fun to play him, but the one thing that’s difficult about playing him is the depth of the TBI, the PTS, the nightmares. That was very difficult for me and I’m just glad that I got through it, that I did it. And now I can let go.”

Does this mean he won’t be playing Jason again in any future revivals? “I don’t want to spoil the ending, so he might not be able to do it,” Boreanaz cautioned.

However, he pointed out that any revival wouldn’t necessarily take place after the series ends. “I think the idea of ​​a movie is always on the table because you can do these stories at any time, from Black Hawk, which could have been two years ago, it really doesn’t matter. We went back and did a great episode about 9/11, which I think was just a great tribute to everything about that event and how it pushed these guys into their positions in their careers as operators and the sacrifices they made. But yeah, there’s always the possibility, I guess,” he admitted.

How do you think SEAL Team will end? Would you like to see some sort of revival after series ending?