Actor Donnie Wahlberg, show patriarch Tom Selleck, and the rest of the cast are saying their last goodbyes to BLUE BLOODS.
“He’s really tall and he’s standing above everyone in the back corner,” Wahlberg recalled of Selleck after they filmed the final scene,” just watching with tears in his eyes. It just was like the waterworks turned on. I could literally cry just thinking about it.”
Selleck played Wahlberg’s father in the show, but he’s a little bit like a father to Wahlberg in real life, too.
“We have real conversations. We work,” Wahlberg explained
“It’s not, I don’t show up and go, ‘Tell me what to do, Tom’… we have a back and forth… there’s a process and he respects me… what I do and what I bring to the table as I do him,” Wahlberg said, recalling that Selleck supported him on set in the show’s final scene.
He thinks the show’s fans will ‘be happy’ with the finale.
“There’ll be a lot of tears. I think the same kind of tears we had, but there is… a very sad scene that happens in the middle of the final episode, which will be very emotional,” he said. “It feels like a finale, but a hopeful, forward-thinking finale.”
“I felt tremendous gratitude, not saditude, but everyone cried. Everyone was crying, of course. The last day was heartbreaking,” he shared.
“I’m just incredibly grateful, you know? It’s very unbelievable to be doing so many things that I love to do,” Wahlberg explained. “I’ve been in my band for almost 40 years, 30-something years, and I’ve been doing this show for 13 years, and I’m so grateful for it.”
The finale was filled with many emotions among the cast.
“It was a lot of emotions,” Wahlberg said. “Because, in one sense, the 14 years went by in the blink of an eye. In another sense, it’s been 14 years of my life… I didn’t even know my wife when the show started.”
Selleck also admitted the final scene was filled with emotion and “an enormous amount of hugs.”
Abigail Hawk, who plays Abigail Baker in the show, said in the final scene, “There is sadness, there is joy and it is all wrapped up in the same beautiful final moments.” She added “There will be satisfaction” for the fans, too.
The show’s cancellation has peeved Selleck in particular.
“I’m kind of frustrated. During those last eight shows, I haven’t wanted to talk about an ending for ‘Blue Bloods’ but about it still being wildly successful,” the actor told TV Insider.
“My frustration is the show was always taken for granted because it performed from the get-go. So, how do I feel? It’s going to take a long time to sort all of this out.”
The final eight episodes of BLUE BLOODS will be released in December.
