{"id":502025,"date":"2026-06-16T06:25:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T06:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/502025\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T06:25:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T06:25:08","slug":"david-boreanaz-talks-son-jadens-rockford-files-pilot-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/502025\/","title":{"rendered":"David Boreanaz Talks Son Jaden’s Rockford Files Pilot Role"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tDavid Boreanaz<\/a> has revealed that his son Jaden appears in the pilot of NBC<\/a>\u2018s The Rockford Files<\/a>, and roughed him up along the way. The actor has also spoken about how James Garner<\/a>\u2018s daughter Gigi gifted him one of the late star\u2019s sets of worry beads after he took on the iconic role of Jim Rockford.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe SEAL Team alum is at the Monte-Carlo<\/a> TV Festival. He talked about working with his son, Jaden Boreanaz<\/a>, who stars in the opening episode of the show, which has been given a full season order by NBC.<\/p>\n

\n\tNo spoilers, but Jaden\u2019s character and some associates have an issue with Jim Rockford, and things get physical.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cYou show up on set, you let it go, you just do your thing and live the moment, and he lived it pretty hard,\u201d Boreanaz said. \u201cHe got me a few times. He was hitting me with this stick. I had a pad in the back of my leg. Well, that pad was great, but the stick ended up here a couple times on my calf, and I was pinned down.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Rockford Files hails from writer Mike Daniels, producers Sarah Timberman and Carl Beverly and Universal Television. Once again, Jim Rockford is a charming and rough-around-the-edges P.I. back to solving cases after being wrongly jailed.<\/p>\n

\n\tBoreanaz expanded on how he sought the blessing of Garner\u2019s daughter Gigi before agreeing to be Jim Rockford.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI said, \u2018Listen, I\u2019m not here to imitate your father. Your father\u2019s an icon, he\u2019s an inspiration, he\u2019s his own thing,\u2019\u201d he recalled. The actor then made sure Gigi was across everything that was happening with the show and she gave him a keepsake in return. \u201cShe gave me one [set] of his worry beads that he would hold in his movies and shows. That was a big moment.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tFilming starts in October for a January premiere. Boreanaz said he didn\u2019t seek out the role. \u201cI wasn\u2019t looking to do The Rockford Files. It came to me when I was doing something else. I was in development at NBC with a show called Doctor Vigilante.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tWhen that did not work out, Jim Rockford came into view. \u201cThe Rockford Files is an iconic show, with an iconic theme song and an iconic car. The car\u2019s in it, which is great. The theme song was kind of tough [because] theme songs don\u2019t really exist these days.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"David Boreanaz has revealed that his son Jaden appears in the pilot of NBC\u2018s The Rockford Files, and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":502026,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[321,195507,93,214747,61,60,214748,43292,209845,214749,9057,214750],"class_list":["post-502025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-david-boreanaz","tag-entertainment","tag-gigi-garner","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-jaden-boreanaz","tag-james-garner","tag-monte-carlo","tag-monte-carlo-tv-festival","tag-nbc","tag-the-rockford-files"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=502025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502025\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/502026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}