Fans of cult vampire dramas Buffy the Vampire Slayer and its spinoff Angel have long sought a reboot — and series star David Boreanaz, 55, agrees that it would be interesting to explore that world again.
“You have a cult world that loves Buffy and Angelthey love fantasy worlds, they love portals and makeup and all fantasy worlds,” Boreanaz tells PEOPLE.
“It’s definitely something that would be interesting to return to that world, that environment,” he adds.
Of course, that doesn’t mean it’s in the works.
“I don’t know what kind of character Angel would be [doing now],” says Boreanaz. One thing he works He knows the series he ran was complex and interesting, and he understands why it still has such a large fan base.
“Angel I think it’s still one of those shows that’s still underrated,” he says. “It was an exploration of action stuff with an adult theme. Both of those shows will live on.”
Sarah Michelle Gellar (right) as Buffy and David Boreanaz as Angel in “Buffy the Vampire Slayer.” Season 2.
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Boreanaz, who is wrapping up the final season of his military drama SEAL team (season 7 premiering August 11 on Paramount+), is candid about how happy he is to have landed Buffy in the first place. After studying at Ithica College (where, he says, he was a long-haired hippie who loved music festivals), he moved to Los Angeles to pursue his dreams.
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He mostly did background acting before landing the role of Buffy’s lover Angel – and he says the way he booked her wasn’t exactly conventional.
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David Boreanaz, Andy Hallett in Season 2 of Angel.
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“I tried the Angel character [casting director] Marcia Schulman. My first meeting with her lasted an hour and 30 minutes, and we mostly talked about Italian restaurants in New York,” he recalls with a laugh. “At the end she said, ‘Well, should we read the slides?’ He got the job, he believes, partly because of his interest in connecting with others on a real level.
“My instinct for everything I do is to show up and show up as whole as possible,” he says.
This includes commitment to one’s roles. To play his own SEAL team Jason Hayes’ character, stayed physically fit and notes that there were no shortcuts – especially since he worked with ex-elite soldiers, either as consultants or as crew.
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David Boreanaz as Jason Hayes in SEAL Team.
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“I don’t take it lightly,” he says of honoring the devotion of the men and women who have worked for the military.
“I take it as inspiration, I take it as motivation, it’s discipline. Listen, the show was very hard to do. It wasn’t an easy show. And when I say that, I mean you had to have the physicality.”
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He says that after seven seasons, he couldn’t handle the intensity and knew it was time to call it quits.
Boreanaz adds that he’s had four MRIs in the last four months: “You get to a point where your body doesn’t move like it used to!”
The first two episodes of the last season of the series SEAL team premieres on Sunday, August 11, with the remaining episodes airing weekly on Paramount+.
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