Tom Selleck is one of the most well-known television actors in Hollywood at present. A decorated thespian, Selleck has an arms-length list of accolades to his name. He has appeared in several popular shows, such as the long-running Blue Bloods and Magnum, P.I., playing the titular character, for which he received several Emmy Award nominations. Given Selleck’s standing in the television industry, he is also one of the richest actors around.
Tom Selleck‘s acting genius is not just limited to television, though. He has also acted in movies, such as Three Men and a Baby (1987) and its sequel, Three Men and a Lady (1990), where he played the bachelor architect, Peter Mitchell. Moreover, Selleck cemented his name in pop culture when he played Dr. Richard Burke, Monica Geller’s love interest, on Friends.
Selleck starred on Friends (Credits: Buzzfeed) Suggested“We’re not, you know, the Beatles”: Courteney Cox...
Tom Selleck‘s acting genius is not just limited to television, though. He has also acted in movies, such as Three Men and a Baby (1987) and its sequel, Three Men and a Lady (1990), where he played the bachelor architect, Peter Mitchell. Moreover, Selleck cemented his name in pop culture when he played Dr. Richard Burke, Monica Geller’s love interest, on Friends.
Selleck starred on Friends (Credits: Buzzfeed) Suggested“We’re not, you know, the Beatles”: Courteney Cox...
- 3/2/2024
- by Sreshtha Roychowdhury
- FandomWire
When beloved actor Matthew Perry passed away last October, the tributes from fans and collaborators poured in. Most of us anticipated the thoughts from his Friends co-stars, who made joint statements prior to individual ones. Now, Tom Selleck, who played Monica Gellar’s one-time love interest Richard Burke on the sitcom, is recalling his time working alongside Perry.
Speaking with USA Today, Tom Selleck remembered one moment where his character swapped mannerisms with Matthew Perry’s Chandler Bing, but the Blue Bloods actor had difficulty nailing Chandler’s trademark sarcasm. “Matthew had this speech pattern that I hadn’t been aware of…Matt told me, ‘It’s a joke, Tom.’ It’s the way he says it. But during that whole show, I kept going up to him asking, ‘Can you say it again?’ and he’d do the line. That was his signature.” On Perry’s skills overall, Selleck concluded,...
Speaking with USA Today, Tom Selleck remembered one moment where his character swapped mannerisms with Matthew Perry’s Chandler Bing, but the Blue Bloods actor had difficulty nailing Chandler’s trademark sarcasm. “Matthew had this speech pattern that I hadn’t been aware of…Matt told me, ‘It’s a joke, Tom.’ It’s the way he says it. But during that whole show, I kept going up to him asking, ‘Can you say it again?’ and he’d do the line. That was his signature.” On Perry’s skills overall, Selleck concluded,...
- 2/1/2024
- by Mathew Plale
- JoBlo.com
Tom Selleck remembers Matthew Perry and the time he shared with the actor on the Friends set.
Selleck joined the sitcom in Season 2 in the recurring role of ophthalmologist Richard Burke, a love interest for Courteney Cox’s Monica Geller. The actor recalled being on the show’s set and connecting with Perry, talking about his father, as Selleck had a friendship with John Bennett Perry.
“Everybody couldn’t have been nicer to me,” Selleck told USA Today in an interview. “But every day I’d see Matthew, and I’d ask him, ‘How’s your father?’ And he’d always smile and we’d catch up. I got to know his father when I was a young struggling actor. Almost any commercial or pilot I went out on, there was John. We became real good friends.”
Selleck has fond memories of Perry and the Friends cast and remembered filming...
Selleck joined the sitcom in Season 2 in the recurring role of ophthalmologist Richard Burke, a love interest for Courteney Cox’s Monica Geller. The actor recalled being on the show’s set and connecting with Perry, talking about his father, as Selleck had a friendship with John Bennett Perry.
“Everybody couldn’t have been nicer to me,” Selleck told USA Today in an interview. “But every day I’d see Matthew, and I’d ask him, ‘How’s your father?’ And he’d always smile and we’d catch up. I got to know his father when I was a young struggling actor. Almost any commercial or pilot I went out on, there was John. We became real good friends.”
Selleck has fond memories of Perry and the Friends cast and remembered filming...
- 1/30/2024
- by Armando Tinoco
- Deadline Film + TV
Tom Selleck recently told USA Today that he relied on Matthew Perry for line readings during the filming of one “Friends” episode during the NBC sitcom’s second season. The “Magnum P.I.” favorite was a recurring guest star on “Friends” as Richard Burke, an ophthalmologist who becomes Monica’s older love interest despite being friends with her parents. In one episode, Richard tries to act younger by using Chander (Perry) and Joey (Matt LeBlanc) as examples.
“We had this role reversal thing going, where [Richard] tried to be like them, and them like me,” Selleck said, remembering that he had difficulty nailing the way Perry would make jokes fly with his trademark sarcastic line readings.
One bit of dialogue that was tripping Selleck up was a line about Richard’s football skills delivered with the sarcasm of Chandler. The line read as followed: “Could that shot be any prettier?”
“Matthew had...
“We had this role reversal thing going, where [Richard] tried to be like them, and them like me,” Selleck said, remembering that he had difficulty nailing the way Perry would make jokes fly with his trademark sarcastic line readings.
One bit of dialogue that was tripping Selleck up was a line about Richard’s football skills delivered with the sarcasm of Chandler. The line read as followed: “Could that shot be any prettier?”
“Matthew had...
- 1/29/2024
- by Zack Sharf
- Variety Film + TV
Before Tom Selleck guest-starred on Friends, he had a long friendship with Matthew Perry‘s father, John Bennett Perry. That connection made entering the Friends set a much easier thing for the actor, and his time on the Emmy-winning sitcom led to another long friendship with the Chandler Bing actor. The Blue Bloods star is now reflecting on his beloved memories with Perry following the star’s death in October 2023. Selleck played Richard Burke, Monica’s boyfriend who was two decades her senior and pals with her and Ross’ parents. Monica (Courteney Cox) and Richard dated for a while before realizing their lives were going in different directions. This breakup opened the door for the endgame romance between Monica and Chandler. “Everybody couldn’t have been nicer to me,” Selleck told USA Today of his time on Friends. “But every day I’d see Matthew, and I’d ask him,...
- 1/29/2024
- TV Insider
Actor Tom Selleck thinks the late actor Matthew Perry was the “most talented” of the ‘Friends’ cast. The 78-year-old actor appeared in nine episodes of the sitcom from 1995 to 2000 as Richard Burke, the much older love interest of Monica Geller (Courteney Cox) and he’s praised the “raw” ability of the late star, who died last October aged 54.
Selleck told USA Today newspaper, “He was raw talent. Matthew’s gone, so it’s easy to say this, but it’s true. I think he was the most talented of a very talented group of people.”
The ‘Blue Bloods’ star, who was unable to attend Matthew’s private memorial service in Los Angeles in October because of filming commitments in New York, found it “fascinating” to witness the bond between the six main cast members on ‘Friends’, reports aceshowbiz.com.
He said, “There are no bad stories. No star stuff. Nothing like that there.
Selleck told USA Today newspaper, “He was raw talent. Matthew’s gone, so it’s easy to say this, but it’s true. I think he was the most talented of a very talented group of people.”
The ‘Blue Bloods’ star, who was unable to attend Matthew’s private memorial service in Los Angeles in October because of filming commitments in New York, found it “fascinating” to witness the bond between the six main cast members on ‘Friends’, reports aceshowbiz.com.
He said, “There are no bad stories. No star stuff. Nothing like that there.
- 1/29/2024
- by Agency News Desk
- GlamSham
Magnum P.I. was one of the most successful TV shows of the ’80s. With Tom Selleck in the lead, the crime drama aired on CBS from 1980 to 1988. Three decades have passed since the show went off the air, and the series has seen several actors die. One Magnum P.I. cast member — Roger E. Mosley — suffered a tragic death after a paralyzing car crash last year.
Roger E. Mosley played a helicopter pilot in ‘Magnum P.I.’ Roger E. Mosley (left), Larry Manetti, Tom Selleck, John Hillerman, and Jillie Mack in ‘Magnum P.I.’ in 1985 | CBS via Getty Images
The original Magnum P.I. follows a laid-back, aloha shirt–wearing private investigator living on a luxurious beach estate owned by a wealthy author after Magnum solves one of his cases. Thomas Sullivan Magnum (Selleck) doesn’t take many cases unless they suit him. And although his life in Hawaii is mostly breezy, he often...
Roger E. Mosley played a helicopter pilot in ‘Magnum P.I.’ Roger E. Mosley (left), Larry Manetti, Tom Selleck, John Hillerman, and Jillie Mack in ‘Magnum P.I.’ in 1985 | CBS via Getty Images
The original Magnum P.I. follows a laid-back, aloha shirt–wearing private investigator living on a luxurious beach estate owned by a wealthy author after Magnum solves one of his cases. Thomas Sullivan Magnum (Selleck) doesn’t take many cases unless they suit him. And although his life in Hawaii is mostly breezy, he often...
- 3/1/2023
- by Produced by Digital Editors
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
Friends had one of the most illustrious runs in television history. The series aired over 200 episodes across 10 seasons before Joey Tribbiani, Monica Geller, Rachel Green, Ross Geller, and Pheobe Buffay put their house keys on the counter for the last time. During those 10 seasons, fans watched countless storylines play out. While most of them were great, there were a few Friends storylines that we absolutely could have lived without.
The reason for Monica and Pete’s breakup made absolutely no sense
When Monica met a millionaire, Pete Becker, she didn’t initially like him. He persisted, and eventually, Monica figured out that she did want to date him. They were pretty cute together, and overall they appeared like a good couple on paper. Monica and Pete’s relationship is one of our favorite Friends storylines. Their break up was not.
The cast of ‘Friends’ | NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty Images...
The reason for Monica and Pete’s breakup made absolutely no sense
When Monica met a millionaire, Pete Becker, she didn’t initially like him. He persisted, and eventually, Monica figured out that she did want to date him. They were pretty cute together, and overall they appeared like a good couple on paper. Monica and Pete’s relationship is one of our favorite Friends storylines. Their break up was not.
The cast of ‘Friends’ | NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty Images...
- 2/26/2023
- by Andrea Francese
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
Jennifer Aniston previously opened up about some of her favorite guest stars on Friends, but now she's shedding light on one that wasn't so friendly. During a Wednesday appearance on SiriusXM's The Howard Stern Show, the 52-year-old actress recalled an actor who had an "attitude" on set. Without disclosing a name, Aniston said the person acted "as if they were just too above this, to be on a sitcom."
"The funny thing is, that male did apologize about their behavior years later, and just said, 'I was so nervous, to be honest, that I wasn't on my best behavior,'" Aniston prefaced. "I remember when we were doing a network run-through, the network and the producers would just laugh. And this person would be like, 'Listen to them, just laughing at their own jokes. So stupid, not even funny.'" She continued, "It was just like, 'What are you doing here?...
"The funny thing is, that male did apologize about their behavior years later, and just said, 'I was so nervous, to be honest, that I wasn't on my best behavior,'" Aniston prefaced. "I remember when we were doing a network run-through, the network and the producers would just laugh. And this person would be like, 'Listen to them, just laughing at their own jokes. So stupid, not even funny.'" She continued, "It was just like, 'What are you doing here?...
- 6/24/2021
- by Monica Sisavat
- Popsugar.com
Remember when Joey fell off his bed in the third season of Friends and had to wear a sling? It turns out there was a very real, very painful reason for that storyline.
HBO Max’s long-awaited Friends reunion, which premiered Thursday, reveals that Matt LeBlanc dislocated his shoulder while filming an earlier episode, inspiring the Powers That Be to write his injury into the show.
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HBO Max’s long-awaited Friends reunion, which premiered Thursday, reveals that Matt LeBlanc dislocated his shoulder while filming an earlier episode, inspiring the Powers That Be to write his injury into the show.
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- 5/27/2021
- by Andy Swift
- TVLine.com
Jennifer Aniston and David Schwimmer could have been each other’s real-life lobsters.
During HBO Max’s Friends reunion special, which premiered Thursday, the former on-screen couple revealed that their chemistry extended off screen — and for the first two seasons of the long-running NBC sitcom, they were practically inseparable.
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“The first season, I had a major crush on Jen,” Schwimmer said.
During HBO Max’s Friends reunion special, which premiered Thursday, the former on-screen couple revealed that their chemistry extended off screen — and for the first two seasons of the long-running NBC sitcom, they were practically inseparable.
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“The first season, I had a major crush on Jen,” Schwimmer said.
- 5/27/2021
- by Ryan Schwartz
- TVLine.com
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