They have been feeling blue.
“Blue Bloods” star Donnie Wahlberg talked to The Submit about filming the ending of the lengthy operating hit procedural.
“Oh my gosh, it was really emotional,” Wahlberg, 55, advised The Submit, whereas selling his ID present “Very Scary People” (returning Sunday, Dec. 15 at 9 p.m.).
“I think when we finished the final take of the final dinner scene, everyone just kind of sat there in silence. Secretly, we hoped someone would walk in and say ‘it was a joke, there will be 14 more seasons!’” Wahlberg mentioned about “Blue Bloods.”
When his co-star, Tom Selleck, broke the silence and began talking, “we all started crying,” he recalled.
“Blue Bloods” premiered in 2010. The police procedural follows the Reagan household, together with NYPD Commissioner Frank (Selleck) and his son, NYPD detective Danny (Wahlberg). The forged additionally contains Len Cariou (PC Henry), Will Estes (Sgt. Jamie Reagan), Vanessa Ray (Officer Eddie Janko) and Bridget Moynahan (ADA Erin Reagan).
After a 14-year TV reign, the community introduced final 12 months that the profitable present would finish this fall.
Selleck has been vocal about his unhappiness that the present is ending. The collection finale airs Friday, Dec. 13 at 10 p.m. on CBS.
Wahlberg revealed what Selleck mentioned that introduced out the waterworks for the remainder of the forged.
“He said a poem. He kind of did that from time to time. He would have these old poems,” Wahlberg defined.
Sellect learn the poem “The Man in the Arena,” initially written by Theodore Roosevelt, Wahlberg shared.
The poem reads, “It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds.”
The “Band of Brothers” actor mentioned that it grew to become “tradition” for Selleck to learn the poem “every now and again.”
So “of course, he did it” after filming the ultimate “Blue Bloods” scene.
“And I’m sitting next to him at the table looking at him…I think it hit me for the first time.”
In that second, “a lot of life passed by me while he was speaking,” he recalled.
“I used to watch [Selleck in ‘Magnum P.I’] as a kid with my parents, and my parents are gone. And that little kid is now here with this guy making this show. It’s a lot to process in the moment.”
As a result of “Blue Bloods” aired for fourteen seasons, Wahlberg noticed his fellow forged and crew members undergo many life occasions, akin to assembly and marrying their partner, “including myself and Jenny,” he mentioned, referring to former “The View” co-host Jenny McCarthy, who he married in 2014.
“In some ways, at least for myself and I suspect some of the other cast members, we really wanted the show to keep going,” the New Children on the Block singer mentioned. “And we wish we could have delivered that gift to the crew, because they were so good to us.”
“It hurt to not be able to tell them we’re going to keep going. I can’t tell you how many people every day and even guest actors would say, ‘my parents love it, and I watch it, and they’re so excited I’m going to be on the show.’”
CBS ending the present, “was sad and difficult in that regard,” he mentioned.
However, “I take that away from the show as the thing that makes me feel most gratitude. We were part of something that meant a lot to a lot of people.”
Wahlberg will put the Reagan’s dinner desk in Wahlburgers, the restaurant chain he owns along with his brothers, Mark and Paul.
“Personally, I think it should be in the Smithsonian. But if it’s not going to go there, I said, ‘Why don’t we try to do something great with it?” he advised the Submit.
“Carry on the tradition of of family dinners at that table with customers, with fans of the show….and maybe do something like ‘Blue Bloods Fridays’ where people can come and sit at that table with me, and have dinner in the restaurant. We’ll do it to raise money for the Widows and Children’s Fund.”
He added, “I thought it was important to carry on the legacy of it and to do something charitable for people who’ve sacrificed for New Yorkers.”
CBS hasn’t confirmed if “Blue Bloods” can have spinoffs, however there have been rumors.
If he was requested to look in a by-product, Wahlberg would signal on.
“I would say yes, depending on what the project was. It’s a lot to think about, because to do ‘Blue Bloods’ outside of New York, it’s going to have to be done carefully,” he revealed. “New York was a character in the show.…So whatever is coming next, it’s going to have to keep that in mind.”
Wahlberg added, “Would I be open to it? Of course. I love the show. I love the character.”
