<p id=”par-1_8″><a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/tag/tom-selleck/?swcfpc=1″>Tom Selleck</a> is ready for his cowboy era. </p>
<p id=”par-2_56″>The <em>Blue Bloods </em>star is hanging up his badge after playing NYPD Commissioner Frank Reagan for 14 seasons. (The <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/see-edward-james-olmos-blue-bloods-series-finale-photos.html/”>series finale</a> airs Dec. 13 on CBS.) But the 79-year-old actor has no intention of retiring. He’s looking forward to taking on more acting roles, and there’s one person in particular with whom he’s interested in working. </p>
<h2 class=”wp-block-heading” id=”h-after-blue-bloods-tom-selleck-wants-to-do-a-western-nbsp”>After ‘Blue Bloods,’ Tom Selleck wants to do a Western </h2>
<figure class=”wp-block-image size-full” id=”emb-1″><img decoding=”async” src=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Tom-Selleck-Sam-Elliott-The-Sacketts.webp?strip=all&quality=80″ alt=”Tom Selleck and Sam Elliott in cowboy outfits in ‘The Sacketts'” class=”wp-image-3750626″><figcaption class=”wp-element-caption”>American actors Tom Selleck (L) and Sam Elliott as Orrin and Tell Sackett in ‘The Sacketts,’ directed by Robert Totten, 1979 | Silver Screen Collection/Getty Images</figcaption></figure>
<p id=”par-3_34″>Selleck recently chatted with <a href=”https://parade.com/tv/tom-selleck-blue-bloods-series-finale-interview” target=”_blank” rel=”noreferrer noopener”>Parade</a> about the end of <em>Blue Bloods </em>and what’s next for him. The <em>Magnum P.I. </em>star said he didn’t have any new projects on the horizon, joking that he’s “unemployed.” </p>
<p id=”par-4_17″>“I wouldn’t say [offers] are pouring in, but maybe some people are thinking of me,” he said. </p>
<p id=”par-5_17″>One person Selleck wouldn’t mind hearing from? <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/blake-shelton-teaming-up-yellowstone-creator-taylor-sheridan-new-show.html/”><em>Yellowstone </em>creator Taylor Sheridan</a>, especially if he’s casting another Western. </p>
<p id=”par-6_20″>“A good Western’s always on my list,” Selleck said. “I miss that; I want to sit on a horse again.”</p>
<p id=”par-7_33″>In addition to eyeing a role in a Western, Selleck has also talked about <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/tom-selleck-hints-might-bring-back-fan-favorite-character-blue-bloods-ends.html/”>reviving the Jesse Stone character</a>. He played the detective in a series of TV movies between 2005 and 2015.</p>
<h2 class=”wp-block-heading” id=”h-tom-selleck-starred-in-quigley-down-under-nbsp”>Tom Selleck starred in ‘Quigley Down Under’ </h2>
<figure class=”wp-block-image size-full” id=”emb-2″><img decoding=”async” src=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Tom-Selleck-Quigley-Down-Under.webp?strip=all&quality=80″ alt=”Tom Selleck dressed as a cowboy and holding a rifle in ‘Quigley Down Under'” class=”wp-image-3744746″><figcaption class=”wp-element-caption”>Tom Selleck in ‘Quigley Down Under’ | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/Getty Images</figcaption></figure>
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<p id=”par-8_51″>Selleck has saddled up for acting roles in the past. His best-known Western is 1990’s <em>Quigley Down Under, </em>where he played an American sharpshooter who takes a job in Australia. When he arrives Down Under, he’s horrified to discover that his rancher boss (Alan Rickman) wants him to kill Aboriginal Australians. </p>
<p id=”par-9_11″>Selleck was initially hesitant to take the part of Matthew Quigley. </p>
<p id=”par-10_54″>“It was this bigger-than-life, iconic character, the kind of role you would want to cast John Wayne in,” he told <a href=”https://www.cowboysindians.com/2020/10/tom-selleck-quigley/” target=”_blank” rel=”noreferrer noopener”>Cowboys & Indians</a> in 2020. “I’m 6-4, but so what? In the back of my head, I still feel like I’m 17 years old, even now. It seemed like a lot to bite off.” </p>
<p id=”par-11_54″>Selleck also played a cowboy in the 2003 TV movie <em>Monte Walsh. </em>In 1997, he played a Confederate veteran fighting to reclaim his Arizona homestead from carpetbaggers in <em>Last Stand at Sabre River. </em>His other Westerns include the TV movies <em>Crossfire Trail </em>(2001) and <em>The Shadow Riders </em>(1982) and the miniseries <em>The Sacketts </em>(1979). </p>
<p id=”par-12_68″>The Emmy-winner also nearly appeared in the hit 1989 miniseries <em>Lonesome Dove. </em>The adaptation of Larry McMurtry’s novel helped revive the TV western and featured a star-studded cast that included Robert Duvall, Tommy Lee Jones, Anjelica Huston, Diane Lane, and Danny Glover. Director Simon Wincer wanted Selleck to play Jake Spoon, a former Texas Ranger. But his <em>Magnum P.I. </em>schedule meant he had to pass on the part.</p>
<p id=”par-13_50″> “Simon asked me to do it, but I didn’t have a lot of availability because I was in every shot on <em>Magnum</em>, Selleck explained. “It was a role my dear friend Robert Urich wound up playing. But since then every hiatus from <em>Magnum</em> I thought, I gotta find a Western.”</p>
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