This Thursday evening at PMC’s brand-new New York video studio, Bridget Moynahan was invited into the TVLine Spotlight, for an in-depth conversation about getting her start on Sex and the City and in the film Coyote Ugly, ABC’s gone-too-soon Six Degrees and, of course, CBS‘ Blue Bloods, which will wrap its 14-season, nearly 300-episode run in December.
With just five episodes left to air (including tonight’s), the prospect of Blue Bloods fading to black — more than four months after filming wrapped — still has the famly drama’s cast getting emotional, Moynahan shared.
“Tom [Selleck], Donnie [Wahlberg], me…. I mean, Vanessa [Ray] cried four times at the Paley Center [panel in October],” Moynahan told me at the 1:30 mark in the YouTube video below. Whomever succumbs to waterworks at any press stop, she said, “depends on the day and the moment.”
Detailing her own reaction to getting the “final season” news nearly a year ago, Moynahan said, “I dont quite understand it…? But it is what it is.
“I mean, we have incredible ratings… and there’s a loyal fanbase that would make the time on a Friday night to sit down and watch it, or make time over the weekend,” she said. Among that audience, “There’s a younger generation coming in and appreciating the great stories, but also the good values,” she noted. Speaking to the void Blue Bloods will leave, “You’re hard pressed to find those values in stories on television right now.”
Other topics covered in the TVLine Spotlight conversation with Moynahan include her very first acting roles (including “Girl No. 3 on bench”), learning to be “tougher” than Piper Perabo in Coyote Ugly, playing spoiler to Carrie and Big (and mom to Selena Gomez), the Tom Selleck crush that sneaked up on her, and acting opposite Keanu Reeves, Colin Farrell and Will Smith on the big screen.
We also spoke about Blue Bloods‘ handling of the Erin/Jack relationship over the years (and her working relationship with “gorgeous” “goofball” Peter Hermann), the Season 6 introduction of Steve Schrirppa as Anthony, how the cop drama navigated the 2020 Defund the Police moment, and the one or two times she had to say a firm “No!” to Erin wardrobe choices.
In the clip above (or at 32:30 in the YouTube Q&A), Moynahan gives a sense of what viewers can expect when the series finale hits their screens in December.
“I think that fans will feel somewhat satisfied… but then you’re going to want more,” she said. “There are these nuggets where people are going to be like, ‘Yes!!!’ And then the show’s over. It’s going to be bittersweet in some ways.”
