Blue Bloods Star Reveals Filming Final Episode Felt ‘Routine,’ But What Happened After Left Them Struggling to Cope
Blue Bloods Star Reveals Filming Final Episode Felt ‘Routine,’ But What Happened After Left Them Struggling to Cope 😱
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The 2024 TV schedule is starting to wind down, and so is Blue Bloods’ final season. The long-running CBS procedural is set to air its series finale in mid-December, meaning fans will be saying goodbye to the Regan family in a matter of weeks. Although filming wrapped over the summer, Len Cariou recently shared what came after that made it extra difficult to say goodbye, and the realization hit harder than ever.
Filming the end of a show can never be easy, especially when it’s been on for 14 years. It was announced late last year that Blue Bloods was on 2024’s list of canceled or ending shows, and despite much protest from fans and the cast, that hasn’t changed. However, since everyone had been anticipating the end and all the goodbyes, Cariou, who plays retired PC and Reagan patriarch Henry, told TV Insider that filming the finale was like a normal day for the most part:
It was pretty bittersweet. The last scene, of course, was at a funeral, and so we weren’t even in the house the day that we wrapped it up. I was finished that day myself and several of the others, Tom [Selleck]‘s group of guys, Bridget and Steve [Schirripa], and the others, they were done that day, too, before the rest of the episode was finished. So it was kind of strange in that sense, just like any other day, any other week. And we had just kind of gotten used to the fact that we had said our goodbyes, if you will, with not a lot of emotional times together.
The final day of filming can certainly be filled with a mix of emotions, and it sounds like Blue Bloods was no different, especially since the series wasn’t officially wrapped when Cariou shot his last scene. However, there was still a job to do and more to work on, so in a sense, this last day felt like any other day.
