The brand new Magnum P.I. has had a slew of superior visitor stars throughout its five-season run, together with Lee Majors, Brian Austin Inexperienced, Ken Jeong, Cydni Lauper, and extra. However in a early Season 5 episode, there may be one other acquainted face you will have acknowledged out of your favourite NBC cleaning soap opera: Shawn Christian. 

Who’s Shawn Christian?

Shawn Christian is an actor who’s greatest recognized for his main position as Dr. Daniel Jonas within the long-running NBC cleaning soap opera Days of Our Lives. (Which now you can watch on Peacock. He performed the position for a whopping 12 years, from 2008 to 2020, earlier than his character was all of the sudden killed in a tragic automotive accident. He additionally performed Miles Henderson in a Season 7 episode of Chicago Med titled “Something Can Occur.”

In an interview with SheKnows, Christian mentioned the emotional course of behind taking part in his character. 

“I believe, with the angle of a surgeon and an adrenaline junkie like Daniel is generally, it brings you again right down to Earth and grounds you. These moments when the factor you labored to your complete life is taken out from beneath you. And surgeons actually run at a excessive degree. And I believe for Daniel, he thrives on life or demise conditions. It is sort of a life pressure for him. So even whether it is hazard in his complete private life, it’s most likely why he finds himself in so many precarious conditions,” he advised the outlet.

“I’m not doing any surgical procedure, however I seek the advice of. The hand could also be weakened however the thoughts nonetheless thrives. And the hand, it isn’t as whether it is addressed utterly, however the again story is that he has traveled the world and explored some different therapeutic strategies and sometimes I’ll therapeutic massage it as a type of exhibiting that is one thing he went by, one in every of his demons, however we’re not actually addressing it within the story line however I attempt to keep true to a number of the historical past of his character,” he added. 

Who did Shawn Christian play on Magnum P.I.?

A flexible actor, Christian performed a a lot completely different sort of character this time round. Christian starred within the second episode of the fifth season, titled “The Breaking Level”, which aired on February 19. He performed the position of Cole Graham, a lifeguard working at a seaside close to Robin’s Nest. Magnum and Higgins went undercover to research the suspicious demise of one in every of Graham’s staff. (Spoiler alert: Graham was not the nice man). 

Watch Magnum P.I. on NBC Sundays at 9/8c and subsequent day on Peacock.   

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