Donnie Wahlberg showed some love to his Blue Bloods costar Tom Selleck amid the show’s final season.
The New Kids on the Block member shared a photo in his Instagram stories with Tom, 79, on Sunday, October 27. The photo was captured when the Blue Bloods cast appeared at the Paley Center for Media on October 17.
“Love this pic,” Donnie, 55, captioned the candid snapshot of him and Tom smiling while on stage. He added a blue heart emoji to his caption.
Just recently, Donnie revealed that Tom had a rather emotional reaction when it came time for their final day on set.
“On the last day, I was filming all my squad room scenes and it’s kinda like where I hold court as Danny Reagan, and Tom Selleck came in just to watch,” the actor shared during an appearance on SiriusXM’s “Andy Cohen Live.”
“When he shows up to watch you work and to be there to say goodbye to everyone, and like, I’m filming the scenes. I’m already emotional. I look across the room and I see him. He’s really tall, and he’s standing above everyone in the back corner just watching with tears in his eyes,” he remembered. “It just was like the waterworks turned on. I could literally cry just thinking about it.”
While marking the show’s 14th and final season, Donnie said that he “felt tremendous gratitude, not saditude, but everyone cried. Everyone was crying, of course. The last day was heartbreaking.”
All in all, Donnie feels like viewers of the beloved crime-drama series will be satisfied with the finale.
“The audience will probably be happy. 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 teased of the show’s finale. “But I think the audience is gonna be really happy because I think there are a lot of things — so to answer your question directly, I think it feels like a finale, but a hopeful, forward-thinking finale.”
As for Tom, he was admittedly “frustrated” that CBS decided to pull the plug on the show, but has high hopes for the future of broadcast television.
“I have great faith and have had great faith in broadcast television. I think it’s suffered from being put in second or third place,” he said at PaleyFest. “And, you know, I don’t think everybody in the world wants to spend an hour on their remote control looking for what they might want to see.”
“I think we’re aware of the enormous amount of cliches in series television,” the Magnum, P.I. alum added. “And we comment on them, and we bring them up, and by commenting on them it really helps with the audience because you’re, again, sharing something. Magnum had a voice-over narration. We have an audience, that, by the time we sit down to the family dinner they know an awful lot of secrets that maybe everyone at that table does not know. And that’s the sense of discovery … ‘Hey, wait till he hears that.’”