For 20 devastating seconds, the SEAL Team finale makes us think Bravo suffered a tragic loss during their latest shoot in Afghanistan—as the dirt and smoke from a missile landing fades into a church service with men in uniform, and everyone looks pretty serious.
But then the familiar opening notes of “Wedding March” break the heavy silence, and we see Jason walking his daughter Emma down the aisle to marry her boyfriend Brad.
“On the day of the shoot, that’s what they wanted to do,” series veteran Kerri Medders, who plays Emma, tells TVLine of the brutal spoof. “They made everyone so sad, and then all of a sudden I’m walking down the aisle.”
While viewers at home were relieved to see the beautiful bride, Medders felt something else entirely while filming the scene.
“That was the moment for me when I started getting emotional” about the end of SEAL Team, she said. “Emma is moving on with her life now, and I’m so glad people got to see that. She’s come a long way.”
Medders added that Emma’s wedding was also “a really surreal moment,” as it saw her wearing a wedding dress for the first time. “It was my first time, so I’ll always remember it. I felt like it was real, but it wasn’t. ‘Emma’ came on, and I was like, ‘That’s crazy!'” Medders’ TV dad’s crazy dance moves at the outdoor wedding reception afterward were also crazy. And if you thought David Boreanaz was just “acting” like a goofy dancer, “Oh no, no, no, he was,” Medders reported.
“We were breaking it out on the dance floor, and he made me laugh!” she added. “We did, like, The Sprinkler and all this crazy stuff, but it was really funny. I couldn’t stop laughing.”
