Tom Selleck Eyes New Role with Yellowstone Creator After Blue Bloods, Dreams of Riding Again

Tom Selleck is looking toward the future as his hit show “Blue Bloods” comes to an end after 14 seasons.

During a new interview with Parade, the 79-year-old actor, who has played Commissioner Frank Reagan in the crime drama since 2010, revealed that he is not planning to retire anytime soon.

Selleck shared that he hopes to make a return to the Western genre in a project led by “Yellowstone” creator Taylor Sheridan.

.“A good Western’s always on my list,” Selleck said.  “I miss that; I want to sit on a horse again.”

tom selleck in western/tom on red carpet

Selleck, who lives on a 63-acre ranch in Ventura, California, previously starred in six Westerns.

The actor first played a cowboy in the 1979 TV miniseries “The Sacketts,” starring opposite Sam Elliott, Jeff Osterhage, and Glenn Ford. The show was based on two of famed Western fiction writer Louis L’Amour’s books. The same year, Selleck teamed up with Jerry Reed in the TV movie “Concrete Cowboys.”

Selleck reunited with Elliott and Osterhage in 1982’s “The Shadow Riders.” In 1990, Selleck appeared in one of his best-known cowboy roles, starring as sharpshooter Matthew Quigley in the hit Australian Western “Quigley Down Under.”

tom selleck in quigley down underDuring his interview with Parade, Selleck named Quigley as one of his favorite roles. “I’m very proud of ‘Quigley Down Under,’ which has passed the test of time and is still very, very popular,” he said.

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