Leaving behind Blue Bloods after 14 seasons isn’t easy for Donnie Wahlberg, who has played Danny Reagan since the inception of the hit CBS series. In fact, this is the first winter in as many years that he’s had some free time, but he’s filled it with filming the sixth season of his ID series Very Scary People and prepping for the New Kids on the Block Las Vegas residency at Park MGM.
“I’m someone who tries to move on quickly and keep moving forward,” Wahlberg told Parade. “I’ll look back with gratitude, but I look forward always to each new day. I guess, though, with Blue Bloods after 14 years, it’s a lot. We had an amazing time in New York, we had an amazing time working together, and we were part of a show that meant so much to so many people. I try not to say, ‘I’ll never do something that cool ever again,” and I just try to say how lucky am I that I got to do something so cool in my life.”
Even now as the final episode of the series is about to air tonight, Wahlberg doesn’t really understand why the show was canceled. He still loves playing his character and would have continued to do so.
When asked about the possibility of a spinoff, which The Powers That Be at CBS have hinted at, Wahlberg says, “I would certainly be open to carrying on the character, it’s just there’s a lot of things that would have to make sense to do it.”
