Bravo is gearing up for its last mission with SEAL Team‘s seventh and final season (the first two episodes drop on Sunday, August 11 on Paramount+). And going into it, there are certainly questions about the status of the team, following Jason (David Boreanaz) publicly speaking about his TBI and other SEALs coming forward about what they’re dealing with as a result of years of combat.
So is it any wonder that Lieutenant Lisa Davis (Toni Trucks), who despite shifting roles remains loyal to Bravo, is aiming to usher in a new era of warfare against powerful rivals for supremacy on the world stage with a focus on the warfighters? Below, Trucks previews Davis’ new role this season, teases Bravo’s new mission, and shares memories from her last day on set.
Davis has a new role this season. How does it change her approach to missions and her relationships with the members of Bravo? We’ve been seeing that really evolve over the seasons.
Toni Trucks: I think the new role that she has makes her job more impactful but also makes the dynamics a little bit more tricky for her. I think that Davis’ dream has been to be in a position that is really directly impacting warfighter safety and particularly Bravo team, how can I keep them as safe as possible for global reasons and also for selfish reasons. And I think that this new position is helpful and also makes things more complicated, but it’s exciting for her ultimately. In the beginning, it’s not the cakewalk or the dream job that she thought it was going to be. She was like, this is going to be exactly what I wanted. And then it’s like, be careful what you wish for.
Especially because Bravo is her family, but in a sense, they can’t be her family. She shouldn’t be singing them out like that.
Exactly. Exactly. And I think that’s going to be, I think it’s safe to say, a theme that’s going to continue to come up this season, is that balance between duty and loyalty and how she’s going to navigate the people that she considers to be absolute family and also the job that she takes really seriously. That is her pride and joy.
How does she handle any pushback that she might get? She does get some, but she stands her ground…
Oh, she does. … God, that was such a frustrating situation. I think that she didn’t anticipate getting pushback on what she thought would be like, we’re all going to be on board with this initiative. We’re all going to be on board on being more efficient and having less danger for the people involved, especially when the landscape of war has changed. And I think that she comes up against a lot of dudes, a table full of dudes, that are stuck in their ways and are just like, we are made for and trained for one kind of war fighting, one kind of way to engage with our enemies, and we’re not really interested in being clever or taking a new approach.
And I think the thing that saves Davis time and time again is that she’s super smart and she believes in her goal. She believes that what she is doing is for the greater good, so she’s not easily swayed, so she’s not going to come up against someone that outranks her and be swayed that she’s not doing the right thing. She’s not going back down. She’s just going to work harder to find a new approach. And I think that kind of tenacity with Davis tends to help her navigate these situations again and again. And also having Lieutenant Blackburn [Judd Lormand] as an ally is also just really helpful to her. She can press the pause button sometimes and go to him and be like, okay, look, talk to me here. What are we doing?
Yeah, I’ve loved that dynamic the entire series. It’s been so good because also just to see the different parts of what they do—that can be its own show right there, what’s going on with Davis and Blackburn.
I know, thank you. We should do a spinoff.
The trailer shows Davis on the ground with Bravo on a mission. What can you preview about that mission and why does she say that it’s “one last ride with Bravo” before it’s all over?
It’s rare in these past few seasons, seeing Davis end up on a mission with the guys. I’ve really found myself in space that are much more strategical and intelligence-based. So the circumstances that lead me to be on a mission with them, I can, I guess, tease a bit and say, as much as I think Davis thrives in the situations when she can work shoulder to shoulder with the team, this particular situation is not her choice. And one last ride with Bravo, I think you might have to wait and see.
Does that play into why she’s joining them on this mission or is that two separate things?
They’re kind of holding hands, but the majority is two separate things. I think left to her own—Yeah, I guess that’s all I can say, but it’s not her choice, but she ends up on that mission.
So there’s a new teammate on Bravo played by Beau Knapp, and he clashes with the team a bit, but w
