Tom Selleck knows there’s a danger to playing the same character for so long and has taken the best precautions to make sure saying goodbye to playing Frank Reagan wouldn’t be like saying goodbye to a huge piece of himself.
After 14 fantastic seasons, the show has finally ended, and it’s truly a bittersweet moment for fans and the show’s cast and crew alike. But maybe no one’s felt the loss quite so acutely as the show’s main man Tom Selleck.
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Tom Selleck’s long-held role on the original ‘Magnum P.I.’ has taught him a thing or two about not getting too attached to a character, but that wasn’t enough to save him from the pain that showed up once the show was approaching its end after over a decade of thrilling drama and suspense.
In his latest chat with Entertainment Weekly, the star, 79, revealed that the show’s ending, which was shot in July, would “take an enormous amount of getting used to” to be able to move on and truly say goodbye.
And it’s not just that he’s gotten too comfortable or too attached to the character, it’s also to do with the people he won’t get to meet at work anymore.
“We loved the show. It was a blessing for 15 years. I mean, we had two families. We had the Reagan family that we portrayed, and quite quickly we had this family of actors who all actually liked each other, which never happens in television. So it was an enormous blessing,” he said.
