

team, so there’s a lot more responsibility and a lot more pressure involved as an actor and as a character. “I have had to step up my intensity, emotional range and leadership capabilities because I am the lead of the show and also the leader of the S.W.A.T. “Physically I gained 12-15 pounds to have the certain presence that I felt Hondo needed, because I definitely wanted to have a different presence than I did on Criminal Minds, but also the mindset of S.W.A.T.

“I joke that Hondo is Derek Morgan on steroids,” says Moore. members who are training us – our tactical advisers who have dealt with real life and death, who have seen the dark side and somehow still fight for the light side, who risk their lives every day to leave their families and go help complete strangers – find justice proud.”īest known to audiences for his role as Derek Morgan for 11 seasons on the hit crime series Criminal Minds, Moore stepped up and beefed up to play “Hondo”. We want to be real and we want to make the S.W.A.T. “We’re going to give you the signatures, which is the theme song, Black Betty, and the cool action, but we don’t just want to be a cool show.

“It’s like The Fast and the Furious, it’s like Bourne , and it’s like the movie S.W.A.T., except we don’t want to repeat the movie. “ S.W.A.T.is like watching a movie every week on television,” says star Shemar Moore of the reboot. Jackson and Colin Farrell, CBS’s S.W.A.T. series remains faithful to its predecessors while carving out its own identity. Inspired by the 1970s TV series and the 2003 feature film starring Samuel L. Award-winning actor, model and philanthropist Shemar Moore talks to STACK about his first lead role playing Daniel “Hondo” Harrelson in the latest S.W.A.T. reboot.
