Actor David Boreanaz, 55, is having mixed emotions.
This interview has been edited for length and clarity.
You were committed to doing almost all your own stunts while filmingSEAL Team, correct?
How difficult was that?
I did, and it was tough.
The show was prescribed in a way that were going to do this real.
Its going to be honest.
Were doing it with real SEALs.
Were not going to sugarcoat it so that was embedded in me.
It has to be authentic.
I took it to such the degree that my body was like:OK, youre now finishing up.
Youre going to have four MRIs in the next two months which I just went through.
So what part of the body doesnt hurt?
Are you feeling your age?
[Im] not really thinking about it.
I have such a youthful outlook on my perception of things.
But the body says, Well, you cant do those types of things anymore.
You wake up with a little bit more pain in the legs and the knees, the shoulders.
The show really kind of beat me up that way.
Have you stayed in touch with your colleagues fromSEAL Teamand the other series youve worked on?
I talk to Parisa [Fakhri fromSEAL Team] here and there.
Theres an interesting part of me I dont like reunions, I never have.
I live very presently in the now, and I dont look down the line too much.
Ive effectively been like that for a very strong part of the last two years of my life.
Did something happen in the last two years that made you live more in the present?
Yeah, I had done some plant medicine for the first time, and I was enamored by it.
Youre able to really understand your traumas and heal yourself by forgiving yourself.
That was a big, big thing that happened to me.
I honor that, and I live in that energy more so than I think I ever have.
