This week will mark the primary week with no new Blue Bloods episode for the reason that collection finale aired on December 13. However Donnie Wahlberg assured viewers that he tried his finest to avoid wasting the present from going off the air.
“I feel one of many issues we haven’t actually talked about is having labored so lengthy with the crew that we had in New York Metropolis,” Donnie, 55, informed Fox News Digital on December 14. “I personally — and I’m certain a number of the different castmates — felt unhealthy. I felt sad.”
“Like, we tried to maintain the present going,” he added. “We tried to assist the present keep it up, and we couldn’t. We couldn’t do it. , we did the whole lot we may, the whole lot in our energy, to have the present keep it up.”
After 14 years on air, CBS determined to drag the plug on the beloved present for causes nonetheless unknown. Up till the final day of filming, most of the solid members nonetheless had religion that the community would come round and realize their mistake.
“I feel there was a protracted pause after they mentioned ‘lower.’ And I feel all of us stood there or sat there sort of hoping that both, A, somebody would say, ‘Hey, it’s all only a joke. We’re going to maintain filming extra episodes.’ Or B, everybody was hesitant as a result of we knew as soon as anyone began speaking, we’d all grow to be emotional,” Donnie admitted.
It’s been arduous to let the Reagan household go after falling in love with their dynamic and admiration for the present’s main man, Tom Selleck.
“All through the 14 years, at essential instances — not simply within the present’s existence, however within the state of our nation — Tom had a knack for displaying as much as work and delivering a message, and oftentimes, not even in his personal phrases,” Donnie informed Variety on December 12. “He would quote various things to go away us with one thing to consider and focus us on what’s vital. It was a magical factor. Once they mentioned, ‘That’s a wrap,’ all of us waited.”
However the New Youngsters on the Block Singer already has another project to maintain himself busy — internet hosting a brand new season of Very Scary Individuals.
“I feel for season 6, we wished to attempt a barely completely different strategy,” he informed Nearer on December 13 earlier than the Blue Bloods collection finale aired. “The present remains to be very a lot the identical present. It’s protecting the identical matters. However I feel we’re attempting to present just a little extra voice to survivors, victims and, you understand, the victims’ households, individuals impacted.”
“It’s at all times been a fragile tightrope doing this present and never desirous to glorify wicked people who do horrific issues,” he added. “However we need to inform the tales. And we expect one of the simplest ways to try this is to additionally give voice to some people who find themselves shut and impacted. It will likely be a distinction within the present this season for certain. And I feel it provides much more movement to the present.”
