SEAL Team’s Jessica Paré Previews ‘Total Mission Failure’ Fallout, Revisits Mandy’s
Action Hero Debut CBS’s SEAL Team continues Season 3 with two breathtaking installments, first ripping the rug out from under us by bringing Havoc himself into the crosshairs, and then leaving viewers with an explosive cliffhanger as a completely voluntary sideshow goes awry.
SEAL Team của CBS tiếp tục Phần 3 với hai phần hấp dẫn, đầu tiên là khiến chúng ta phải kinh ngạc khi đưa chính Havoc vào tầm ngắm, sau đó để lại cho người xem một cảnh hồi hộp nghẹt thở khi một trò hề hoàn toàn tự nguyện trở nên tồi tệ.
Jessica Paré — after briefly reflecting on the eight-year anniversary of her performance of “Zou Bisou Bisou” on Mad Men (post below) — previewed for TVLine the blame game that will take place this Wednesday at 9/8c, due to that failed mission. Funny thing is, you just mentioned “Zou Bisou Bisou,” which I’m definitely not comfortable with. There’s a lot of action in the two parts at Havoc that Judd [Lormand] and Toni [Trucks] and I did, which is also not in my comfort zone. But the emotional conversations are definitely in my comfort zone. [Laughs] Especially in this context, of course, because these are two people who don’t talk about emotions very often. Even with the language between Mandy and Jason, we rarely say exactly what we feel, and in this conversation, the subtext speaks louder than the words. She’s asking him to go find this guy, and he understands why. He understands exactly how she feels.
She’s the only person in Jason’s life — and I think she is, too — who doesn’t want him to be different, who easily accepts him for who he is, for who he is, and who can understand him. There’s this unspoken understanding of each other, like a real support system.
I’ll tell you, this is one of those times where you trust the process. [Laughs] We gave our editors a mountain and they made a mound. They’re really, really good at making us look good in things like that. I had a lot of help from our technical advisors — Kenny Sheard, Chase Rivera, and Garrett Golden — and of course Mike Massa, our stunt coordinator. The way we shoot our show is pretty “fast,” which fits the spirit and energy of the show.
Running around a corner with a weapon that you don’t know how to use can be a little nerve-wracking. There was one shot where I was reloading and I kept leaving the magazine pointing the wrong way. [Laughs] And when I finally got it right, they said, “Don’t shoot yourself in the face” — and of course on the next take, I shot myself in the face. I was very clumsy at everything. And then when I realized that I was actually going to shoot other people, the stuntmen…? I apologized to them in advance.
Well, someone did something wrong, and that was the focus of the episode. We went back and pieced it together. We didn’t have an overwatch, so no one saw the whole picture.
So it’s not a matter of who in the chain of command made the wrong decision? Mandy called for this operation, Jason gave the green light, Blackburn let it happen….
Yeah, there was a little bit of that, of course. Mandy pushed pretty hard, and Jason made a decision that was probably not based on intelligence but based on emotion. But the whole point of the show is that you have to make pretty heavy, life-or-death decisions, so when something goes wrong, who’s to blame?
What surprised you when you saw SEAL Team edited, all produced and broadcast on TV?
The thing that I’m most proud of when I watch the show is the attention to technical detail. Of course, we want to tell a story, but we try our best to respect the technical aspects of what this group is doing. So I’m always struck by the beauty of not only the camerawork, but there’s a real choreography to a lot of the technical protocols, the way the guys move…. I always find myself thinking, “This is more beautiful than I would expect a war show to be.”
Also, I love how hard our crew works, how fast we move, how big everything is. This is a big action/stunt show, and the people behind the scenes are real people, and to see the amount of work that goes into each of those shots and how quickly they get done…. Our director of photography, Jimmy Muro, loves all that movement, where the camera is never still. Sometimes we’d finish a scene and I’d be like, “Oh, am I in it?” The camera was always moving, so you have to give it your all. You never know when you’re in front of the camera.
I’m trying to remember everything we know about Mandy on a personal level. I feel like at the bar one time she might have hinted at how bad dating is…?
Here’s what I love about this part, and why I never push any [personal details]: I think it’s very rare to have a female character that we only know through her work. Second
