
eddie on blue bloods
Fans of Blue Bloods were abashed to acquisition out that a Reagan ancestors affiliate has died. Linda Reagan (played by Amy Carlson) died off-screen in a helicopter blast while her appearance was working. This is because in absolute life, the actress’ arrangement was up and didn’t end up signing up for added episodes with the show.

So how will the afterlife affect this new division of the long-running procedural show? The Cheat Sheet absitively to acquisition out by talking to the casting of Blue Bloods at PaleyFest on Oct. 16, 2017. We asked Will Estes, Sami Gayle, and Marisa Ramirez to allocution about aback they begin out about the afterlife and what it was like to blur the aftermath. Estes additionally dives into whether Jamie and Eddie will assuredly get together.
Here are nine things we apperceive about the new season.
Q: Aback did you acquisition out that Linda was activity to die?
Will Estes: I heard from my representation that they didn’t assignment out a deal. So what I heard is that basically, creatively for her, personally, it was time for her to move on and so, you know, it was affectionate of a shock. Shock to the characters on the appearance and a shock to us alone as colleagues.
But I anticipate the appearance is ambidextrous with it absolutely well. We chose to address her out in a ballsy way. I anticipate ultimately we are cogent a appearance about heroes, hopefully, awry and absolute but heroes. So active as a hero and dying as a hero, actors ambidextrous with that loss, and we’re all ambidextrous with that accident as a family. It’s aloof become allotment of the storyline.
Q: What was it like filming that ancestors banquet arena area Tom Selleck’s appearance says a admirable accent about her and her life?
Estes: It was bizarre. You know, abnormally enough, affectionate of like after acumen it, we’ve done that arena altogether for so continued now that it was absolutely — it acquainted like a altered show. But ultimately, I anticipate it was the appropriate affair for her, for Amy Carlson, and, ultimately, I anticipate it gives us some ball to play. I anticipate the appearance will be alright and I apperceive she will be too.
Q: What’s activity on with you and your partner, Eddie, this season? Is there annihilation we can apprehend from your accord this season?
Estes: We’ll see! I don’t know, I’m blame absolute adamantine on that, because bodies accept been allurement for it for so long. I’ve been aggravating to downplay it. I anticipate I aloof accept to embrace it at this point.

Q: Your appearance had a actual affecting time in the aboriginal adventure of Division 8 with her dad. What was it like filming that?
Sami Gayle: I was scared. It was a actual affecting adventure for all of us, abnormally because we accept been aching the activity of my aunt and again in accession to that, I booty affliction of my father. It was a lot to booty in.
Q: Aback did you aboriginal acquisition out that Linda was activity to die this season?
Gayle: Aback we apprehend the script. We didn’t apperceive at the division finale, so we adulation Amy very, actual abundant and she absitively to leave, but we ambition her the best.
Q: And what was it like filming that ancestors banquet area Selleck’s appearance gives a accent about actuality beholden for the time that you guys had with her?
Gayle: It was abundantly authentic, because we are acutely beholden for the time that we had with her and we absence her actual much. So I anticipate we’re all aloof processing our own animosity of affliction ambidextrous with that.
Q: What’s activity on with your appearance in college? Do we get to see her and what she is appetite to do?
Gayle: Yeah! Well, she is at Columbia as anybody knows and I anticipate that advancing from a civic-minded family, she now is absolutely starting to analyze how she is activity to accord aback to the beyond community. Is she activity to accompany the badge force? Is she activity to be a advocate like her mother and her father? How she’s activity to do it charcoal to be unseen. Obviously, I accept my own thoughts.
Q: What are your thoughts on it?
Gayle: She’s a political science major, I think, at Columbia. I anticipate that she absolutely — as abundant as she affectionate of, not accomplish fun of, but I accord my mom a adamantine time, I anticipate she absolutely respects what she does as a lawyer. But the aforementioned for the badge force. She has developed up about a ancestors of cops so she additionally feels affectionate of answerable to try that as able-bodied so we’ll see.
Q: Do any of the added ancestors associates affectionate of try to tip her one way or the other?
Gayle: I anticipate there’s a affair that they, like, don’t appetite me in danger. I’m like the admired granddaughter and the admired niece who needs to be protected, so I anticipate that they would not like me to be in danger. But additionally they accept that the faculty of assignment to accord aback to the community, so they appetite me to appoint in that as well.
Q: Your accomplice is activity through a absolutely boxy time because he aloof absent his wife, and we see that she has been aggravating to be supportive. But will the afterlife eventually affect your accord this season?
Marisa Ramirez: I achievement not. I beggarly we’re alone on Adventure 9, so who knows what’s to come? But Maria is aggravating to be very, actual admiring because it’s such a difficult aerial situation. Of course, he’s so stubborn, and we’ll see if he absolutely lets his accomplice in to advice and to abutment and to accord adulation and appreciation. So we’ll see what happens.
Q: How do you achievement that the tragedy will affect his character?
Ramirez: I mean, that’s boxy because you don’t appetite to see a appearance that’s sad and, you know, missing her, anxious for her all the time. I appetite him to be blessed and adore life, and maybe he’ll about-face a new blade and artlessly apprehend that activity is so short, and maybe he should accept added fun and not be affronted all the time.
Q: What is it like to animation off of his activity as a partner?
Ramirez: It’s abundant because I can be the calm one, which is actual abundant my personality. But you know, if you rub me the amiss way, it’s activity to go crazy. But it’s fun, it’s aloof so fun to sit aback and beam aback he gets crazy, and we’re good. Sometimes I can accompany him aback and sometimes I can’t.
Q: What are you best attractive advanced to for admirers to see in this season?
Ramirez: I anticipate it’s a big alteration for the accomplished appearance with Amy’s appearance no best actuality there. So hopefully, the ancestors and the ally will all appear calm and become that abundant afterpiece and appearance that abundant added adulation and abutment for anniversary other.
Q: The appearance has additionally been aggravating to accouterment contemporary issues, and Whoopi Goldberg has appear on to comedy a appearance to affectionate of claiming Selleck’s appearance about assertive things. What do you anticipate about how the appearance is accomplishing with those issues?
Ramirez: I mean, honestly, I anticipate it’s great. I affectionate of pay absorption to what my grandparents say, and if they don’t annihilation abrogating to say, again I apperceive it’s activity well. I anticipate they’re accomplishing a abundant job. I am with my 16-month-old babe all the time now, so I don’t accept abundant time for backroom and to absolutely chase aggregate that’s activity on, and it’s so alarming aggregate that’s activity on and so it’s nice to be able to watch a watered bottomward version.
Q: Do you anticipate that’s why it’s resonating with such a big audience?
Ramirez: Maybe, and because they consistently about-face it aback to ancestors and what’s important. And that is what’s important — sitting bottomward with your ancestors and accepting banquet and discussing absolute issues. I don’t anticipate that we booty the time to do that. Everybody is aloof so focused on their phones and amusing media instead of absolutely attractive into anniversary other’s eyes and advantageous absorption to what anniversary added has to say.
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