Andrew Terraciano spent 14 seasons playing Donnie Wahlberg‘s son on Blue Bloods — but has he seen the Boston Blue spinoff since being recast?
“I’m getting around to it. I’ve been very, very busy. I’m getting my Masters right now,” Terraciano, 22, exclusively told Us Weekly of whether or not he has seen the new series. “That means that I have put off almost all TV watching — unless it’s specifically related to a course.”
Despite his busy academic schedule, Terraciano, who originated the role of Sean, isn’t ruling out plans to watch the beloved spinoff in the near future.
“I’m going to give it the time and the respect that it deserves,” he said, before weighing in on a possible return despite Mika Amonsen currently playing Wahlberg’s son in CBS’ newest hit.
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“I said it to Donnie on the phone. If he says the word, I’ll be there,” he noted. “Not just with Blue Bloods or Boston Blue, but with anything in life.”
Terraciano became a regular presence on our TV screens when Blue Bloods aired from 2010 to 2024. While the show has since expanded into Boston Blue without Terraciano, the actor took the time to express his gratitude for Blue Bloods while speaking to Us.
“It was my first real substantial acting role. I was only 6 years old when my brother and I got [our parts] and he was 8. So it was kind of a whirlwind,” Terraciano recalled. “But we also really didn’t understand what was going on. I can’t say my parents did either. … We really had no idea at all what we were walking into and then my dad found out that [Tom Selleck] was going to be on the show and he immediately called his mom. They freaked out over that.”
Terraciano acknowledged that the experience was at times “super intimidating” for him.
“It was immediately us [as a cast] going, ‘Alright, we’re going to figure out whatever is going on and we’re going to have fun doing it,’” he recalled. “Then as soon as we got back to New York when we saw each other again, it was like seeing old friends. It just never went away.”
After bringing the character of Sean to life, Terraciano was thrilled to get the chance to expand on the role for over a decade.
“A lot of people don’t get the fun of leaving between one season and then coming back two feet taller with a completely different voice. It was incredible,” he quipped. “Every moment of finding myself was at the same time a moment for me to find out about Sean. It was for Sean to find who he was and to get a better understanding of not only the way that we could play on set, but also played with different family dynamics in the way that we depicted that.”
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In addition to sharing the screen with Wahlberg, Bridget Moynahan, Will Estes, Len Cariou and Selleck, Andrew and his older brother, Tony Terraciano, played siblings on set as well.
“Neither of us were classically trained actors. All of our experience was very much on the job learning. So we would sit down and we would discuss what we thought and we would read a bit of acting theory and then talk it out,” Andrew told Us. “Then we would go and we would be on the same football team and we would have the same practices. I have a twin sister and it’s the same thing in a very different light.”
He continued, “But it’s that experience of we can fight and we can hate each other but we will always love each other. We will always be kind to each other and we’ll always be like that.”
Despite not reprising their roles in Boston Blue, Andrew has been thriving in school and has continued to pursue his love for acting.
“At the end of last spring, I got the fantastic opportunity to work in a dear friend director Sabrina Carlier’s rendition of Annie Baker’s The Antipodes. Not only did I have that amazing opportunity that was my first play that I’ve ever been in but it really pulled me into the theater world,” he explained. “It showed me how much love I have for all forms of acting. I helped produce a friend’s short film recently, and I look forward to every opportunity that I get to act.”
He concluded, “You get a passion and you can’t get rid of it to continue to act and continue to participate in creating in any way, shape or form. I would love more than anything to be an actor for the rest of my life. But I’m a huge Star Wars fanatic so I would really do anything [in that universe]. And I would love to try out a sitcom.”
Blue Bloods is streaming on Paramount+.
