You’ll never see this series the same again: Tom Selleck still uses the same trick for dinner scenes in Blue Bloods

As Tom Selleck has previously revealed, the famous family dinner scenes in Blue Bloods are not easy and quite intense to film. The man who plays the family patriarch and police commissioner, Frank Reagan, has a special trick to make these scenes easy for him, a trick that you can watch at almost every dinner party now!

Brilliant advice from Tom Selleck

As Screen Rant reports, it takes quite a while to film these ensemble scenes before all the dialogue is captured by the camera at the perfect angle. To be precise, dinner at the Reagan house can take six to eight hours.

The actors must also eat (or pretend to eat) the same food on their plate as believably as possible throughout the sequence. This is by no means an easy task, as Dear Danny Reagan’s translator Donnie Wahlberg made clear.

“Everyone has a technique for appearing active at the table. I am studying. The next show or movie I do, if I have to eat, I’ll use Tom’s trick. Tom takes a roll or piece of bread and spreads butter on it. So, during all his lines, he looks like he’s having dinner.“

now that you know Tom Selleck Constantly smearing cookies during these scenes should keep you smiling at almost every dinner party. However, so that the entire Reagan family could not make sandwiches in front of the camera in every episode, it was strictly forbidden. Donnie Wahlberg Use the “Selleck method”. Poor Donnie finally got to like the rest of the cast and improv in the rest of the episodes. But in his next series, he has to pour bread! let’s stay…

The final eight episodes of Blue Bloods will air from October 18, 2024, every Friday in the United States. In France, you can find the series on Paramount+.