The final episode of the CBS police drama Blue Bloods, which has been on since 2010, is set to air on Friday. Now, star Donnie Wahlberg is speaking out to admit that he broke down in tears while filming the final Blue Bloods Reagan family dinner scene.
Wahlberg Talks Final Episode
“We were all walking this real delicate tightrope during the finale, knowing that it was the last episode and feeling very emotional each day,” Wahlberg, 55, told Entertainment Weekly.
Wahlberg went on to talk about how emotional the final dinner scene was.
“They may be sitting down feeling conflicted by emotion because it is the last episode,” he said of how fans will likely respond to it. “We definitely went to work every day knowing it was the last episode and tried to hold back the tears and the emotion, and the audience will probably do the same.”
“I think when we finished filming is what I’ll remember most,” Wahlberg continued. “We all just kind of sat there for a long time, and I think everyone was hesitating to say something to say goodbye because A, nobody wanted to, and B, everyone knew once somebody starts talking, it’s a wrap. The tissues are coming out and everyone’s going to start crying, and sure enough they did.”
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Wahlberg ‘Started Crying And Didn’t Stop’
Blue Bloods star Tom Selleck, 79, recited a poem. He’s done this often over the years, but this time it was more emotional, given the circumstances.
“The first day we ever shot was the dinner scene, right?” Wahlberg explained. “I didn’t have time then to be in awe of Tom Selleck or to think, ‘Wow, when I was a little kid, if you told me I would work with Tom Selleck for 14 years — or ever — it would be more than I could ever have dreamed of.’ And now here I am, closing out 14 years with him, and I allowed myself to think about that while he was talking.”
“I started crying and didn’t stop for a few hours,” he added.
Wahlberg ended up speaking after Selleck, though he admitted that he “could barely get a word out.”
“I don’t know the exact words, but I think I really tried to convey how much the crew meant to me, and that even though it was a really difficult time for all of us to be saying goodbye, I just kind of encouraged everyone to just remember how lucky we all were to have been a part of this,” Wahlberg recalled.
“If there’s anything that can make you feel OK about such a special opportunity ending, it certainly would be the fact that you even had the opportunity to be part of something so special in the first place,” he concluded. “I think that was really where I tried to go, and that’s how I try to approach it every day.”
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Final Blue Bloods Episode
The final episode of Blue Bloods, which is the 293rd episode of the series, will air on Friday night. The episode is fittingly called “End Of The Line.”
The official description for the episode reads, “It’s all hands on deck for the Reagan family, as they race to stop deadly mayhem in the city when the gangs of New York unite together to demand amnesty for the release of their imprisoned members and those awaiting trial, in the historic series finale.”
Blue Bloods has been one of the most beloved shows on television for the past fourteen years. Be sure to tune in on Friday night so it can get the ratings sendoff that it deserves!
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