Toni Trucks Isn’t Ready for ‘SEAL Team’ to End in Season 7 — But She’s Looking Forward
Toni Trucks is choosing to focus on the positive as she bids farewell to Paramount+’s SEAL Team.
“I was surprised when I heard we were ending. I felt like there was definitely more story to tell [about my character Lisa Davis],” Trucks, 43, told Us Weekly exclusively about the show’s seventh and final season. “But ultimately, the writers did a great job of giving her this final season that I’m very happy with.”
“I felt like I needed to let them take the reins and let myself be surprised by how things turned out. I just loved this finale. I didn’t have any input — I just crossed my fingers and read the script,” the actress noted. “[At the end of the season], I was able to walk away feeling like I could let my imagination run wild with what Lisa Davis was still working on.”
SEAL Team, which debuted on CBS in 2017, follows an elite unit of US Navy SEALs, known as Bravo Team, as they take on dangerous missions around the world. After five seasons, SEAL Team moved to Paramount+ ahead of the show’s final season.
Trucks wants fans to know that while it’s the end of an era, they’ll enjoy the journey, adding, “I’m happy with how it ended. And I think for the fans — I’m not going to say they’ll be happy when it ends. I don’t think these fans will ever be happy when it ends, but I think they’ll be satisfied.”
Season 7 has a lot of catching up to do, as the team initially wasn’t on the same page — or even from the same country.
“As we start the season, Bravo and the whole team are going through the aftermath of [Jason’s revelation in season 6]. We’re all scattered [around the world]. We’re not a team,” Trucks teased. “We’re going to see the team in a lot of really uncomfortable spaces that they’ve never been to — and a lot of countries that they’ve never been to before.”
Trucks stressed that viewers are in for “another satisfying, action-packed, heartbreaking season,” sharing, “Everyone needs to put on their hats and their tissue boxes and buckle up for our season 7.”
The biggest question on everyone’s minds as the show wraps up is whether Davis will end up with Sonny (A.J. Buckley). Trucks wouldn’t reveal too much — except that fans shouldn’t give up hope just yet.
“I have my own feelings about what happens with them. But I let the writers take the reins. They always had a vision for that romance. Even when they presented it to me, I was like, ‘This is going to be amazing,’” she recalls. “I was so touched because that was the No. 1 thing people wanted to talk to me about when they stopped me. And we’re really giving them something to root for. The fans won’t be disappointed [and] that push and pull is present in this season. It’s a little bit tricky how it all plays out.” Reflecting on her time on the show, Trucks recalls many highlights. Some of her favorite memories involve her pregnancy and how she became a mother while filming the hit series.
“It was fun. They gave me a little SEAL Team jacket for the baby. And I remember one day I came in to do a scene where we were carrying boxes. When they gave me the box, it was a box on one side but then it was just a cutout for my belly on the other side,” Trucks, who welcomed her son with partner Brandon Phillips in 2022, detailed. “I was like, ‘There’s so much love on this set that someone thought to do this for me.’ Even in this final season, they put little Easter eggs in there for me to celebrate my motherhood. I’m really grateful. It was a very loving environment.”
“Playing Lt. Lisa Davis taught me a lot. I thought a lot about the different qualities that go into playing Lisa Davis and what I hope to learn from her. Some of the big things that I love about playing her is that she’s absolutely relentless in her pursuit of making an impact on the people around her and the people that she loves,” Trucks explained to Us. “She’s just focused on success. She’s loyal to a fault.”
“But she’s an incredibly hard worker and has a lot of respect for her work,” she continued. “Those are all really great qualities that I’m going to hold in my little heart and try to give back in my real life.”
As Trucks prepares to leave SEAL Team, she’s excited about what’s next.
“I really want to do something physical. Physical storytelling is something that I’ve always really enjoyed [when it comes to] the full scope of enough of a character. So something more physical would be really interesting”
