BAYWATCH star David Charvet chose family over fame — with “no regrets.”
“I left Hollywood because I wanted to be a good dad, and for me, today my children are my legacy,” he told Fox News. “It’s not the career you built or the money you have or all that. It’s really what you leave behind. And what I’m leaving one day behind is really my children. And if I did it right in that way, then I think I’ve successfully done my job as a man on this planet. So, for me, there’s no regrets.”
Charvet acknowledged that BAYWATCH jumpstarted his career, saying, “I’ve had a lot of incredible opportunities from it. Incredible life lessons, incredible friendships and relationships, so for me, I’m just grateful, you know, I’m super happy with whatever the outcome has been.”
He also commented on the upcoming reboot of the popular lifeguard series, saying “Getting people to really watch something today is more of a challenge,” adding, “They got their work cut out for them.”
Now, Charvet is returning to TV for the latest season of SPECIAL FORCES: WORLD’S TOUGHEST TEST.
“It’s not every day that you get thrown out of a helicopter, or you jump out of 25 stories and things like that,” he explained. “And then also the mind games. Do I really have what it takes? To take on what we took on was a real thing that I wanted to see if I could do. So for me, it was a huge challenge, an incredible opportunity, and hopefully my kids will be proud.”
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Speaking to PEOPLE, the actor said it was also a chance for his children to see him work.
“I’ve been out of the game for 20 years,” he said. “I kind of retired to be a dad, so they never saw that, and I thought it’d be kind of fun for them to see their dad go at it one more time.”
So, does his return to TV with SPECIAL FORCES mean there might be a BAYWATCH reboot cameo in Charvet’s future?
“For me it’s always about, ‘What am I doing this for, and is there a real story behind it?’” he told Entertainment Tonight. “Who knows! We’ll see what happens. I’m definitely talking to the executives and figuring it out, so we’ll see what happens. Stay tuned.”
New episodes of SPECIAL FORCES: WORLD’S TOUGHEST TEST premiere every Thursday on FOX and will be available to stream on Hulu the following day.
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