As a door closes, Tom Selleck I hope another one opens soon.
Selleck, 79, is considering his future in Hollywood as the hit series “Blue Bloods” comes to an end after 14 seasons.
The veteran actor has shown no signs of slowing down, recently revealing that he wants to get back on the horse and make a return to the western genre.
However, Selleck expressed his frustration with Hollywood, noting that he was not a fan of his rise to fame since his debut in “Magnum, PI” and that he had recently felt “taken for granted” following the cancellation of “Blue blood.”
Tom Selleck expressed his frustration with Hollywood as his popular crime series “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 on the detective series since 2010, he floated the idea of trading in his police badge for a cowboy hat.
“A good western is always on my list,” Selleck said recently shared with Parade. “I miss it. I want to sit on a horse again.”
Selleck, who lives on a 63-acre ranch in Ventura, California, has previously starred in six Westerns.
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Tom Selleck starred in 1990’s “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 television miniseries “The Sacketts,” starring Sam Elliott, Jeff Osterhage and Glenn Ford. The show was based on two books by famous Western fiction 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 Osterhage in “The Shadow Riders”. In 1990, he appeared in one of his best-known cowboy roles, that of sharpshooter Matthew Quigley in the hit Australian western “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.
“It was a great 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 and that maybe John Wayne could have done better.”
The last time Selleck donned a cowboy hat was in the 2003 TV movie “Monte Walsh,” and he hopes to potentially 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 co-star Elliot, who worked with Sheridan in the “Yellowstone” spinoff series “1883.”
“Sam was great in (‘1883’),” he said. “Sam is always great. We go way back. I really like him. I would love to work with Sam.”
While Selleck joked that offers for new acting roles “aren’t pouring 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 don’t want to do Frank Reagan II. »
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Selleck added that he was open to a “Blue Bloods” spinoff, but he clarified that no one had talked to him about it.
However, he is upset by the cancellation of the hit series.
“I’m a little frustrated. Over the last eight shows, I haven’t wanted to talk about how ‘Blue Bloods’ ended but how it was still a huge hit,” he told TVInsider.
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Tom Selleck plays Commissioner Frank Reagan in “Blue Bloods.” (Getty Images)
He continued: “My frustration is that the show has always been taken for granted because it was played out from the start. So how do I feel? It’s going to take a long time to sort all this out. “
The “Magnum, PI” actor’s comments came after he admitted he might be forced to abandon his California ranch without the income he earned from the series.
Donnie Wahlberg stars alongside Tom Selleck in “Blue Bloods.” (Getty Images)
In May, he told “CBS Mornings”: “You know, I hope I continue to work hard enough to keep my spot.”
“The place” is his 63-acre ranch located in Ventura County, California. He bought it in 1988 after leaving “Magnum, PI”. It was an avocado farm before the drought, but now Selleck is focused on rebuilding the place.
“It’s still a problem,” the actor admitted. “If I stopped working, yes. Am I ready to live? Yes, but maybe not on a 63-acre ranch.”
“My frustration is that the show has always been taken for granted because it was played out from the start. So how do I feel? It’s going to take a long time to sort all this out.”
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His first credited roles came in the late 1960s, and since then he has built a big name for himself.
Selleck became famous for his role in 1980’s private detective Thomas Magnum in “Magnum, P.I.,” but he admitted he was unhappy with his early fame.
American actor Tom Selleck starred in the crime drama “Magnum, PI” (CBS Photo Archive)
“I didn’t like it,” Selleck said on the “Where everyone knows your name with the “Ted Danson and Woody Harrelson” podcast, “mainly because of family and a sense of intimacy.”
“I started being asked questions in interviews that I didn’t want to say or answer,” he remarked. “I was trying to — I said, ‘You better find a way and come up with a line about what you’re going to talk about.’ I wasn’t always successful, but it just grew, and I still can’t describe it.”
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“But I didn’t experience that every day,” Selleck added.
“I had a nice house in Hawaii,” he said. “It was a very small house, a one-bedroom house. I rented it. I bought it later. It was the first house I could ever afford. And I belonged to a place called the Outrigger Canoe Club, and it was the locals.”
He continued, “I was actually living the Magnum life at the beach and all that.”
Tom Selleck is introduced as private detective Thomas Sullivan Magnum. (CBS Photo Archive)
However, the fame that came with the immense success of “Magnum, PI” it was difficult to get used to.
“It was definitely, I don’t know, a lot to adjust to, I think,” he said.
In 1981, Selleck won his first public prize. Selleck also received a Golden Globe and Emmy nomination each year from 1982 to 1986 for his role in “Magnum, P.I.”
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Following this famous role, Selleck had various television and film credits, including “Three Men and a Baby”, “Friends”, “Boston Legal” and “Meet the Robinsons”.
Selleck married Jillie Mack in 1987. He was previously married to Jaqueline Ray. The two share a daughter named Hannah and a son named Kevin.