Tom Selleck hopes that as soon as one door closes, another one will open.
Selleck, 79, is eyeing his future in Hollywood as his successful series Blue Bloods comes to an end after 14 seasons.
The veteran actor shows no signs of slowing down, recently revealing that he wants to get back on his horse and return to the Western genre.
But Selleck has expressed frustration with Hollywood, saying he hasn’t been a fan of his rise to fame since the early days of Magnum, P.I., and has recently been “taken for granted” over the cancellation of Blue Bloods. He said he felt that way.
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Tom Selleck has expressed his dissatisfaction with Hollywood after the hit crime drama show Blue Bloods was canceled after 14 seasons. (Patrick Herbron/CBS via Getty Images)
Selleck, who has graced TV screens since 2010 as Chief Frank Regan in the crime drama, came up with the idea of swapping his police badge for a cowboy hat.
“A good Western is always on my list,” Selleck recently told Parade. “It’s nostalgic. I want to ride a horse again.”
Selleck lives on a 63-acre ranch in Ventura, California, and has appeared in six westerns.
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Tom Selleck appeared in Quigley Down Under in 1990. The actor said that when it comes to future work, “a good Western is always on my list.” (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/Getty Images)
He channeled his inner cowboy in the 1979 TV miniseries The Sackets, opposite Sam Elliott, Jeff Osterhage, and Glenn Ford. The show is based on two books by famous Western novelist Louis L’Amour. Later that year, Selleck teamed up with Jerry Reed in the TV movie Concrete Cowboys.
In 1982, Selleck reunited with Elliott and Osterhage in Shadow Riders. In 1990, he was cast in one of his most famous cowboy roles, playing sniper 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 hugely popular,” he told the outlet.
“It was a great Western, and he was obviously an iconic hero,” Selleck said. “I don’t mind saying I was a little nervous about playing a role that John Wayne could have played better.”
Selleck last donned a cowboy hat in the 2003 TV movie “Monte Walsh,” and is hopeful of collaborating with “Yellowstone” creator Taylor Sheridan in the near future.
Tom Selleck said: “I’m very proud of Quigley Down Under, which has stood the test of time and remains hugely popular.” (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/Getty Images)
Selleck expressed interest in sharing the screen again with co-star Elliott, who co-starred with Sheridan in the Yellowstone spinoff series 1883.
“Sam[in 1883]was great,” he said. “Sam is always great. We go way back. I love him dearly. I would love to work with Sam.”
Selleck joked that he hasn’t been “inundated” with new acting offers, but added, “Some people are thinking about me.”
“I don’t know where my next job is going to be,” he said. “People ask, ‘What do you want to do next?’ I don’t want to do Frank Reagan II.”
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Selleck added that he would be open to a Blue Bloods spinoff, but clarified that no one had ever talked to him about it.
However, he is angry that the popular show has been cancelled.
“It’s kind of frustrating. For the last eight shows, I didn’t want to talk about how Blue Bloods ended, but I wanted to talk about how it was a huge success.” he told TV Insider.
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Tom Selleck plays Secretary Frank Reagan in Blue Bloods. (Getty Images)
He continued, “My frustration is that I was always taken for granted because the show performed from the beginning. So how do I feel? It’s taken a long time to sort this whole thing out.” It will cost.”
The “Magnum, P.I.” actor’s comments came after he confessed that he might have to give up his California ranch without the income he received from the show.
Donnie Wahlberg co-stars with Tom Selleck in “Blue Bloods.” (Getty Images)
“I hope I keep working long enough to keep this position,” he told CBS Morning in May.
That place is his 63-acre ranch in Ventura County, California. He bought this place in 1988 after leaving PI Magnum. It was an avocado farm before the drought hit, and Selleck is now focused on rebuilding the site.
“That’s always a problem,” the actor admitted. “If I quit my job, yes. Am I going to do it forever? Yes, but maybe not on a 63-acre ranch.”
“My frustration is that the show has always been taken for granted because of its performance from the beginning. So how do I feel? It’s going to take a long time to sort this whole thing out. .”
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His first credited role was in the late 1960s, and he’s made a huge name for himself ever since.
Selleck skyrocketed to fame in the 1980s when he played private detective Thomas Magnum in Magnum, P.I., but he admitted he was not satisfied with his early stardom.
American actor Tom Selleck stars in crime drama “Magnum, P.I.” (CBS Photo Archive)
“The reason I didn’t like it was mostly because of my family and my sense of privacy,” Selleck said on the podcast “Ted Danson and Woody Harrelson Where Everyone Knows Your Name.”
“I started getting asked questions that I didn’t want to ask in interviews. I wanted them to answer,” he said. “That’s what I was trying to do — I said, ‘I’d better find a way and find a line in what I’m trying to say.’ I wasn’t always successful, but… I just grew up, and I still can’t really explain it.”
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“But I wasn’t experiencing it every day,” Selleck added.
“I had a nice house in Hawaii,” he said. “It was a tiny little house, a one-bedroom house. I rented it. Then I bought it. It was the first house I was ever able to buy. And , I belonged to a place called the Outrigger Canoe Club. It was local people.”
He went on to say, “Actually, I was living a Magnum life on the beach and stuff.”
Tom Selleck is portrayed as private investigator Thomas Sullivan Magnum. (CBS Photo Archive)
However, it was difficult to get used to the fame brought by the huge success of “Magnum, P.I.”
“Really, I don’t know, I think it’s been tough adjusting,” he said.
In 1981, Selleck won his first People’s Choice Award. Selleck was also nominated for a Golden Globe and an Emmy Award every 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 his wife Jilly Mack in 1987. He was previously married to Jacqueline Ray. They have a daughter named Hannah and a son named Kevin.
