SEAL Team Season 7 Reunites With New Star’s David Boreanaz
SEAL Team season 7 features a secret Bones reunion, with the new cast reacting to reuniting with star David Boreanaz. SEAL Team season 7, the show’s final season, is happening via weekly releases on Paramount+. The release schedule has given viewers a chance to see the twists and turns of the action drama as it nears its finish line. That includes bringing Boreanaz back together with an actor he once directed.
In an interview with TV Insider, Beau Knapp reacts to joining SEAL Team season 7 and reuniting with Boreanaz, who executive produces the show and stars as Jason Hayes. Knapp plays Drew Franklin, the newest member of the Bravo team, and he spoke candidly about working with Boreanaz again after the Buffy alum directed Knapp in the Bones season 8 finale. Read his full quote below: It was a trip. It was 2013. It was a wild time. Like 2011, I was 21. I had my first child and I was just a young, passionate actor. That’s all I knew how to do. Super 8 was my first job, the J.J. Abrams movies. And then I’m pretty sure Bones was my second job, but when it started, it was amazing because David Boreanaz was directing that finale and so I went in the room and read for David, sitting across from him. Just like I did with SEAL Team—going into the reading room and David just sat across from me. It was a great experience and I think that was one of the first conversations we had when I walked into the room for SEAL Team testing. David and I started talking about 10 years ago or whatever, 11, 12 years ago and it’s been so fast, but it’s been great to work together again. But yeah, even then, it was playing a villain. It was fun. I think that was my first experience with television and how different it is from doing a movie. It’s crazy to see that. I looked like a kid shooting Bones compared to now. It’s really gratifying.
Knapp appeared in “The Secret in the Siege,” the season 8 finale of Bones. Boreanaz directed the episode, and Stephen Nathan and Jonathan Collier wrote the script. Knapp played Zane Reyonds in the episode, his only appearance, and Reynolds was a suspect in a larger plot involving Christopher Pelant (Andrew Leeds). The episode aired in 2013 when Knapp was in his early 20s.
Over a decade later and having had a positive experience working with Borenaz before, Knapp joined the cast of SEAL Team as Drew Franklin. The character is a high-ranking officer with a troubled past. His arrival at Bravo wasn’t exactly a smooth transition, as Drew was a problem child and he tended to always look for his own advantage.
It’s no secret that SEAL Team had to move on after a major cast change, following the departure of Max Thieriot. It did a good job of moving forward, thanks to Knapp’s positive history working with Boreanaz. It was a good asset to continue into the final stretch of the long-running action series.
