00:00Obviously, we didn't have to go through Hell Week or anything like that, because I think I would probably die.
00:03No, that was what we made you do.
00:06Why don't you tell me what happened?
00:07Somebody fed us bad intel.
00:09This is set up.
00:12What kind of research did you do about the Navy SEALs, and what did you learn along the way?
00:17We surrounded ourselves with Navy SEALs on this job.
00:21The book, The Terminalist, is written by Jack Carr, former Navy SEAL.
00:24And so the training was weapons work, transitioning between different platforms.
00:30Obviously, we didn't have to go through Hell Week or anything like that, because I think I would probably die.
00:34No, that was what we made you do.
00:36No, I wasn't going to do that, because I already got this role.
00:41Because Navy SEALs, they're a different breed.
00:43There's maybe 1 or 2% of people that actually try to go and try to do it that actually
00:49come out the other side.
00:50So when you do meet a SEAL, you know, you look at him like, and kind of marvel over him
00:54like, you've got some different kind of things going on.
00:57I'm not going to tell you again.
01:00Stay off my list.
01:02Ray Mendoza, who was our tech advisor in this, trained me for Lone Survivor.
01:07So I won't say it's old hat, because it's no joke to do that and take that responsibility on.
01:14But I love that responsibility, and I love that brotherhood that we have in this show.
01:19It felt less like research and more like just getting to immerse myself in the situation to get to work
01:27on the tactical stuff with these real Navy SEALs and work side by side with them so that we knew
01:32exactly what it'd be like when it came to filming days.
01:35Answers or blood?
01:40Blood.
01:40I had done a show several years back called Dimension 404, where I played an Army psychologist who studies PTSD.
01:49And so I used a lot of that research because I think my character, Katie, the reason the truth matters
01:54so much to her is she knows these guys as humans.
01:58She knows the human toll of it.
02:00I got connected specifically with a former female Kiowa helicopter pilot who served in Iraq and Afghanistan.
02:08And getting to hear her stories and what it was like for her serving her country in that way, what
02:13it was like being a woman in the military, it was just something I didn't know anything about.
02:18The military has a language all of its own and all of these abbreviations, so I had to have almost
02:26a dictionary thesaurus for the script itself.
02:30And even when I read the book, there's so many abbreviations.
02:33If there's connection to you and your men, I'll find it.
02:37For me, it was mostly, of course, speaking to SEAL wives and just, you know, having really honest conversations with
02:44them.
02:44What it's like to have to say goodbye to their husbands and not know whether or not they're going to
02:49come home and how you have those conversations with your children and something I'd never considered before.
02:54My dad was a LAPD officer and Marine for over 30 years, so I was, I've grown up in that
03:01world.
03:01But for Tony specifically, he's just this human being catching a legend.
03:06So I wanted to put myself into a position where I was learning with Tony.
03:11I have 12 men flying on the caskets right now.
03:14This is personal.
