When one door closes, Tom Selleck He hopes to open another soon.
Selleck, 79, looks forward to his future in Hollywood with the end of the hit series “Blue Bloods” after 14 seasons.
The veteran actor has shown no signs of slowing down, and recently revealed that he wants to take up horse riding and return to the western genre.
However, Selleck expressed his frustration with Hollywood, noting that he has not been a fan of his rise to fame since his early days on “Magnum, P.I.” and recently felt “taken for granted” due to the cancellation of “Blue bloods.”
Tom Selleck expressed his frustration with Hollywood after his popular drama show, Blue Bloods, was canceled after 14 seasons. (Patrick Harbron/CBS via Getty Images)
While Selleck has graced television screens with his role as Commissioner Frank Reagan in the crime drama since 2010, he has floated the idea of turning his police badge into a cowboy hat.
“Good westerns are always on my list,” Selleck said recently Shared with procession. “I miss it. I want to sit on a horse again.”
Selleck, who lives on a 63-acre ranch in Ventura, Calif., has previously starred in six Westerns.
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Tom Selleck appeared in the 1990 film “Quigley Down Under.” The actor noted that when it comes to future jobs, “a good western is always on my list.” (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/Getty Images)
He channeled his inner cowboy in the 1979 TV series “The Sacketts” starring opposite Sam Elliott, Jeff Osterhag and Glenn Ford. The show was based on two books by famous western fantasy writer Louis L'Amour. Later that year, Selleck teamed with Jerry Reed in the TV movie Concrete Cowboys.
In 1982, Selleck reunited with Elliott and Osterhag for The Shadow Riders. In 1990, he appeared in one of his most famous cowboy roles, playing sniper Matthew Quigley in the Australian western film Quigley Down Under.
“I'm very proud of Quigley Down Under, which has stood the test of time and is still very, very popular,” he told the outlet.
“That was a big Western, and he was clearly an iconic hero,” Selleck said. “I don't mind saying that I was a little eager to play a role that John Wayne might have played better.”
Selleck last wore a cowboy hat in the 2003 TV movie “Monty Walsh,” and he hopes to collaborate with “Yellowstone” creator Taylor Sheridan in the near future.
Tom Selleck says he is “very proud of Quigley Down Under, which has stood the test of time and is still very, very popular.” (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/Getty Images)
Selleck expressed interest in sharing the screen again with his co-star Elliot, who worked with Sheridan on the Yellowstone spin-off series “1883.”
“Sam was great in (‘1883’),” he said. “Sam is always great. We go back and forth. I love him so much. I love working with Sam.”
While Selleck joked that offers for new acting roles aren't “flowing in,” he added that “some people are thinking about me.”
“I don't know where my next job will take me,” he said. “People ask: What do you want to do next?” “I'm not sure I wouldn't want to do that to Frank Reagan II.”
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Selleck added that he would be open to a “Blue Bloods” spinoff, but explained that no one had talked to him about one.
However, he is upset that the hit show has been cancelled.
“I'm kind of disappointed,” he told TV Insider. “During those last eight shows, I didn't want to talk about the end of Blue Bloods, but about it continuing to be a huge success.”
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Tom Selleck plays Commissioner Frank Reagan in Blue Bloods. (Getty Images)
He continued, “My frustration is that the show was always taken for granted because it was made from the beginning. So, how do I feel? It's going to take a long time to sort all this out.”
The “Magnum, P.I.” actor's comments came after he admitted he might have to give up his California ranch without the income he earned from the show.
Donnie Wahlberg stars alongside Tom Selleck in Blue Bloods. (Getty Images)
In May, he told CBS Mornings: “You know, I hope I keep going long enough to keep the place.”
The “place” is his 63-acre ranch in Ventura County, California. He bought it in 1988 after quitting Magnum, P.I., which was an avocado farm before the drought, but now, Selleck is focused on rebuilding the place.
“That's always a problem,” the actor admitted. “If I stop working, yes. Am I ready for life? Yes, but maybe not on a 63-acre farm.”
“My frustration is that the show was always taken for granted because it was made from the beginning. So, how do I feel? It's going to take a long time to sort all this out.”
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His first roles came in the late 1960s, and since then, he has developed a big name for himself.
Selleck rose to fame thanks to his 1980s role as private investigator Thomas Magnum in “Magnum, P.I.,” but he admitted he wasn't happy with his early stardom.
American actor Tom Selleck starred in the police drama “Magnum, P.I.” (CBS photo archive)
“I didn't like it,” Selleck said.Where everyone knows your name With Ted Danson and Woody Harrelson, “Podcast,” “Mainly because of family and a sense of privacy.”
“I started getting questions in interviews that I didn't want to say — give an answer to,” he said. “I was trying to—I said, ‘You better find a way and find a line about what you're going to talk about.'” “I didn't always succeed, but it grew and I still can't quite describe it.”
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“But I wasn’t going through that every day,” Selleck added.
“I had a beautiful house in Hawaii,” he said. “It was a little house, a one-bedroom house. I rented it, and then later bought it. It's the first house I could ever afford. And I belonged to a place called the Outrigger Canoe Club, and that place was locals.”
“I was living the magnum life at the beach and stuff,” he continued.
Tom Selleck appears as private investigator Thomas Sullivan Magnum. (CBS photo archive)
However, the fame that came with the great success she achieved “Magnum, P” It was hard to get used to.
“It was really, I don't know, a lot to adjust to, I guess,” he said.
In 1981, Selleck received his first People's Choice Award. Selleck also received a Golden Globe and Emmy Award nomination every year from 1982 to 1986 for his role in Magnum, P.I.
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Following this iconic role, Selleck earned numerous television and film credits, including “Three Men and a Baby,” “Friends,” “Boston Legal,” and “Meet the Robinsons.”
Selleck married Gilly Mack in 1987. He was previously married to Jacqueline Ray. The two share a daughter named Hannah and a son named Kevin.
