Why Clay's SEAL Team Was Necessary According to David Boreanaz

Summary

• David Boreanaz explains Clay's death as necessary authenticity in high-stakes situations.
• The actor stresses the importance of not sugarcoating the dangers the characters face.
• Boreanaz wants viewers to understand the real possibility of death in the series by avoiding the drama of the series.

SEAL Team star and executive producer David Boreanaz details why Clay's death had to happen. Considering it's an action drama set around dangerous battlefields, death is nothing out of the ordinary for a Paramount+ Original. But the death of Clay Spencer (Max Thieriot) in season 6 continues to reverberate, especially for Boreanaz's protagonist Jason Hayes. SEAL Team Season 7 is set to debut.

in an interview with Screen Rant's Rachel Foertsch, front SEAL Season 7 premieres Sunday, August 11 on Paramount+, Boreanaz answers how Clay's death will affect the characters heading into the show's final ten episodes. The Star reports that they did I don't want to gloss over the dangers the characters face and emphasize that death is a real possibility. Read the full quote below:

We have always said that these men and women, specifically the operators, can or cannot do it. We don't sugar coat it. We don't play it like a big soap opera moment in an episode of a series like this. One of the reasons we tend to be more of a streaming outlet than a network show is that we simply don't check those boxes.

So the originality is always there for the character to be removed – a nicer way of saying they were shot or killed or not. I think this is something on the plate for Jason Hayes for the series finale. We always want to remind the audience that you never know when you're going to get hit. I think in today's world of storytelling, especially with operators, that can happen at any time.

Clay's death was a response to off-screen changes (but it worked for the show)

Thieriot Left to Headline His Show

Theriot is out SEAL Team Focusing on a new project, being the creator and host of the CBS drama Fire Country. Clay dies trying to save another veteran and his loss seems to have had the biggest impact on Jason Hayes. The leader of the team naturally blames himself for what happened to Clay, although this ties into the larger theme of where Jason is in his own life and how he might suddenly die, even though as a single father he has people depending on him. upon him.

Some viewers claim that SEAL Team He could have easily kept Clay alive, given him a happy ending that would have allowed Tieriot to guest star if necessary. But Paramount+ Original is taking advantage of the actor's bender to keep Clay on the show even if he doesn't appear.

Clay's replacement is Foxtrot transfer Omar Hamza, played by Raffi Barsoumian, who joins a season 7 cast that also includes Neil Brown Jr., AJ Buckley, Tony Trucks, Raffi Barsoumian, and Beau Knapp. Although it doesn't appear, Clay will dwell on these final episodes. Comments from showrunner Spencer Hudnut and now Boreanaz reveal that it's old SEAL Team is not regularly forgotten.