We were heartbroken when we had to say goodbye to Clay Spenser in SEAL Team Season 6. But why did Max Thieriot leave SEAL Team and what happened to his character, Clay Spenser, on the show? Keep reading to find out.
Thieriot played the role of Clay Spenser, the Navy SEAL and Special Warfare Operator First Class of Bravo Team. Spenser followed in the footsteps of his father, Ash Spencer, a former member of SEAL Team 3. In Season 2, Clay was severely injured in a surprise bomb attack in Manila while trying to train Filipino SEALs. Thieriot portrayed Spenser from the very first season of SEAL Team, which premiered in September 2017, until his last appearance in Season 6, Episode 8, “Aces and Eights.”
The actor spoke with the Daily Caller in March 2019 ahead of Season 2 and explained why it’s important that the show feels authentic for everyone involved. “I think the thing is, to be honest, that’s the most important thing to us. Whether the technical aspect [of] the military tactics or the stuff that now goes on in this community or if it’s the personal life stories or the sacrifices that these men and women make … to make sure we are as authentic as we can possibly be is, by far, the most important thing,” he said in the interview. Thieriot also talked about the tactical and weapon training he and his costars received on the show to make it look realistic. “We had amazing technical advisors on set, and we still have a couple Delta guys, guys from various field teams, we have Marine Force Recon, we have guys from all different branches of the military that are on the show as producers, writers, actors, stuntmen, crew and, so, we have a lot of time rehearsing now,” he added.
Thieriot grew up in a small town in Northern California where “everybody owned guns,” which he said helped him get used to being around different kinds of weapons on the show. “I’m a country boy so I came from a small town, Northern California, where everybody owned guns. We grew up, you know, hunting and fishing. It’s obviously not the same gun movement, but I spend a lot of time around guns and have been around them since I was eight or nine years old. For me, it was kind of more learning some of the technical stuff,” he also said in the interview.
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