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donny wahlberg Be honest about how much it costs to produce blue blood — and why that led to the cast taking a pay cut before the show was cancelled.
“With Blue Bloods, they came to us before their final year and said, ‘You need to take a 25 percent pay cut or we’re going to go off the air.'” Some people were like, ‘No.’ Others were like, ‘Okay,'” Wahlberg, 56, told the show on Tuesday, April 21The George Janko Show” podcast.
actor, Who plays Danny Regan? On the show, trying to negotiate. “I thought, ‘Why not just take (a) 15 percent (salary cut) in exchange for four more seasons?'” he recalled. “Because they said, ‘This is the last year, so take a 25 percent pay cut.’ “I just thought, ‘Let’s get on with it.’ I would rather have seventy-five percent of something than zero percent of anything. “
Blue Bloods Finally Achieved ended after 14 seasons on CBS.
“I naively thought that if we took a pay cut—and that’s what everyone else was right about—we could continue. But the show has become so expensive, and the industry has changed,” Wahlberg explained. “They used to do 10 to 20 TV pilots at a network. … There’s no pilot season anymore. Everything has changed.”
The hit series premiered on CBS in 2010 and gained a strong fan base. After 14 seasons, viewers aren’t ready to say goodbye to New York Police Commissioner Frank Reagan.Tom Selleck) and his children: Danny (Wahlberg), Erin (Brigitte Moyna) and Jamie (Will Estes).
CBS, however, had different plans when speculation increases That blue blood The show could end despite the cast and producers agreeing to take a 25% pay cut. back blue bloodWahlberg is teaming up with CBS’s Boston Blue for a spinoff ahead of the December 2024 series finale.
“I can promise everyone in the audience that no one is more disappointed than me. No one is crying more than me. No one is more heartbroken than me,” Wahlberg said exclusively. US Weekly February. “I did everything I could to save the blue bloods. I did everything I could.”
Wahlberg recalls having to mourn Finish blue blood Before making transition.
“I had to go through the process of saying goodbye to our crew and cast and coming to terms with the fact that (Blue Bloods) might now be in my rearview mirror,” he continued. “I had to give up on Danny Regan and Blue Bloods. So when this happened, I had to reevaluate. It wasn’t just a snap decision.”
He concluded: “The decision became easier when I worked with the Brandons (writers Brandon Margolis and Brandon Sonnier) on the pilot script. I found ways to make Danny believable, to make him believe he was going to Boston, and to find ways to really make Danny a fish out of water.”
boston blue Airs Friday at 10pm ET on CBS. New episodes will air on Paramount+ the following day.