Photo by FOX via Getty ImagesBest known for playing David Silver on the iconic ’90s drama Beverly Hills, 90210 (or perhaps for his long roller-coaster relationship with Megan Fox), Brian Austin Green can now add reality TV to his vast repertoire of projects, having competed on Season 30 of Dancing With the Stars with girlfriend Sharna Burgess in 2021, and, more recently, joining the cast of Season 2 on Special Forces: World’s Toughest Test, which premieres Monday, Sept. 25, on FOX. The very down-to-earth actor gladly answered our “5 Questions.”
What was the most challenging part of your time on Special Forces?
I think it’s the entire thing. The challenges are tough and grueling, but when you get to the barracks and you realize, “Oh, this is my life for the next eight days,” you realize, OK, there’s no such thing as running water. Life as I know it and have lived for 50 years is completely different. So now it’s just a matter of surviving, surviving this way with these people. Most of them I’ve never met, but I equate it sort of to a plane crash. You can’t possibly have that connection with anybody else in your life. It’s a very unique experience. I didn’t go in feeling like, “Oh, I need to win this. I need to make it all the way through this to prove something.” I was honestly in it for myself. I was really curious to see physically what I was still capable of.
You’ve been acting since you were very young. How did you originally get into it?
A kid that I rode the bus with to elementary school was a commercial actor. He always had video games and money, and I thought, “I want to do that. What is this thing?” I met with his agent and started taking acting classes and the rest is history.
If you had to pick any other career besides acting, what would it be?
Music. I’d be a drummer for sure. My dad was a musician. I grew up in music. The 90210 writers followed my life a little bit that way; they knew that I was into music, and they slowly started incorporating music into the character.
What about a career that wasn’t in the arts?
I’d be a contractor. I absolutely love DIY building. It’s become such a huge passion for me, so I would absolutely be doing construction.
What are your favorite shows or movies of all time?
Jaws is one of them, just because that has got to be the best example of a director making the absolute best out of a really difficult situation and making a movie, performance-wise, that to this day stands up on its own. It’s so good. When I was a kid, Three’s Company was a big show for me. And I was really into English humor, like Fawlty Towers and Benny Hill and things like that.
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