The ultimate Reagan household dinner ever is upon us with the sequence finale of Blue Bloods airing this Friday within the 2024 TV schedule. The household dinners have turn into a fan-favorite custom amongst not solely the forged however the followers as effectively, and each is arguably the spotlight of the episode with the Reagans coming collectively, laughing and arguing. It’s one of many solely instances followers see all the household on-screen collectively. Along with the ultimate dinner having some particular friends, Tom Selleck commemorated the scene in an emotional method.
Blue Bloods wrapped filming over the summer season. Although the ultimate day on set was identical to another day, that doesn’t imply that there weren’t nonetheless loads of emotions. Wahlberg informed Leisure Weekly what it was like filming that closing Reagan household dinner, and it seems like everybody simply tried their hardest to not sob:
I bear in mind displaying up that morning and there have been a lot, way more crew members watching than traditional. There’s often loads, everybody is available in and watches the rehearsals, and typically we’ll say a bit one thing. I would say, ‘It may be a fantastic day’ and I am going to get everybody all fired up and stuff. We’ll improvise some strains simply to get a number of laughs and such. However today, I believe everybody was actually hanging on and, once more, attempting to remain current and concentrate on the work and ensure we did the work effectively, but in addition attempting to not get misplaced within the emotion of all of it.
The Reagan household dinners have actually been a continuing on Blue Bloods for nearly 300 episodes, and the truth that the forged and crew managed to make it by means of the ultimate scene is spectacular. That’s to not say that it was simple, although, as a result of as soon as the scene was completed, nobody wished it to really finish. Wahlberg went on to share what Tom Selleck did to make it particular:
I believe once we completed filming is what I am going to bear in mind most. All of us simply form of sat there for a very long time, and I believe everybody was hesitating to say one thing to say goodbye as a result of A, no one wished to, and B, everybody knew as soon as anyone begins speaking, it is a wrap. The tissues are popping out, and everybody’s going to begin crying, and certain sufficient, they did. I bear in mind Tom learn a poem — or, he did not learn it. He’d memorized the poem and recited it. He is identified the poem for years, and he did that on occasion. He would say a poem or he would quote some outdated well-known saying or one thing. He would at all times simply drop these sage little issues upon us at dinner on occasion.
After all, everybody has had time to organize for the top of Blue Bloods after it was introduced final yr that the Reagans could be leaving us. However filming these closing scenes simply made it all of the extra actual, particularly when “Wrap” was known as on the dinner. To not point out that the dinner was Selleck’s first and closing scene ever filmed. Fortunately, he got here by means of with a poem and it took Donnie Wahlberg again in time:
And he began the poem, and I simply bear in mind feeling like I transported again to 10-year-old Donnie watching Tom Selleck on TV and it simply form of hit me once more. The primary day we ever shot was the dinner scene, proper? I did not have time then to be in awe of Tom Selleck or to assume, ‘Wow, after I was a bit child, for those who informed me I’d work with Tom Selleck for 14 years — or ever — it will be greater than I might ever have dreamed of.’
Regardless of enjoying Selleck’s son for 14 seasons, it was nonetheless a dream for Wahlberg by the top. It reveals simply how a lot Blue Bloods means to him, particularly since he admitted he “began crying and didn’t cease for a number of hours” whereas desirous about what these final 14 years have been like. Wahlberg shared that he could be watching Selleck on TV together with his mother and grandma, who’re each gone now, and “how profound it was that by some means my life’s journey had taken me to this second,” and that he “could not assist however really feel extremely blessed and extremely grateful in that second.”
The Blue Bloods forged is actually particular, and never simply because the unique Magnum is on the present. It is going to be laborious to say goodbye to the Reagans on Friday, but it surely’s good to listen to another time simply how a lot the present and people household dinners meant to the forged.