Boston Blue simply launched a love curiosity for Sean — and the romance will proceed to create obstacles for the youngest Reagan and pa Danny.
Throughout the Friday, November 21, episode of the hit CBS collection, Sean (Mika Amonsen) had an unconventional meet cute with Penny (Xochitl Gomez), who turned out to have a prison file. Sean's father, Danny (Donnie Wahlberg), particularly wasn't thrilled with the idea of his son courting a felon.
Whereas Danny got here round by the tip of the episode, the brand new lady in Sean's life may trigger extra pressure for the Reagans.
“As Danny says, ‘That criminal.' He loves that line,” Amonsen quipped throughout an unique interview with Us Weekly. “However we now have our challenges. I'll let viewers proceed to tune in to see the place it goes and if Penny returns.”
In keeping with a CBS press launch, Gomez, 19, will visitor star as Penny in a number of episodes of the Blue Bloods spinoff.
“She'll be round and her relationship with Sean — it continues to broaden,” Amonsen teased. “Danny and Sean's relationship challenges them however I believe it challenges Sean in a means as properly. It appears like a primary severe girlfriend for him and he learns somewhat bit of labor and life steadiness.”
Boston Blue, which premiered in October, invests in Danny's story after he was initially launched on Blue Bloods, which ran from 2010 to 2024. The spinoff has additionally allowed extra of a give attention to Danny's relationship with son Sean, which he's working to rebuild all through the season.
“You're going to see the pushback in numerous methods [from Danny's side]. However you ultimately see Danny acknowledge that his son is a full-grown man. Even when there's something that Danny disagrees with, you're going to see him acknowledge that he simply needs his son to be glad,” Amonsen continued. “There's solely a lot Danny can impose — and Sean is at an age the place he's making his personal choices.”
He added: “No matter Danny's opinion, he takes a deep breath and says, ‘I simply need you to be glad.' That occurs in a number of alternative ways all through the season. We see a whole lot of Danny rising in opposition to Sean additionally rising. We see Danny actually broaden as a personality.”
Having Danny and Sean's reconciliation be so central to the present has allowed Amonsen and Wahlberg, 56, to place within the work on display.
“The method has all been very, very straightforward. Donnie simply makes it so easy. I had a reasonably good understanding of the character [that was created in Blue Bloods] and I introduced that and I spoke to the showrunners and writers about it,” he recalled. “[We discussed what they wanted to be] explored and the place they needed to go along with the position.”
Amonsen and Wahlberg prioritized the dynamic between Danny and Sean. “Donnie was very informative — clearly — as a result of he has a lot historical past with the present,” he added. “At any time when I had questions, it was very, very relaxed and it felt very pure with Donnie. He has this father-like power about him. As a lot as he's been Sean's father, he's been an incredible mentor to me on the right way to navigate a job like this and a present like this. I couldn't ask for a greater costar.”
The optimistic expertise didn't cease there. Amonsen has been in a position to develop Sean as a personality by his work as a patrol officer alongside Marcus Scribner‘s Jonah.
“Working with Marcus is as enjoyable because it appears to be like on display. He's superb. That real friendship that you just see between Jonah and Sean is us in actual life. We hang around on our downtime and we're always joking round off display. We had a extremely nice time,” Amonsen shared. “He felt like a brother on this present. As a personality, I really feel like they're greater than mates since you see this brotherhood between them.”
He continued: “You will notice as they navigate these tough conditions and so they're actually there for one another in a means that nearly feels past friendship. It's simply what the job is — a partnership. They've a extremely superb partnership the place they're at all times exhibiting up for one another.”
For Amonsen, the spotlight of taking part in Sean has been getting the “freedom to discover” who the character is now.
“My dad was a fan of the present and we'd watched it a number of occasions. However I hadn't actually gone in depth once I bought the audition. I knew it was based mostly on Blue Bloods nevertheless it all occurred actually shortly,” he recalled. “It was inside a few week's time and I used to be actually thrown into it shortly. I did binge watch as a lot as I may and I discovered doing the later seasons was extra useful. I needed to get a way of who Sean was towards the tip of the present and to actually get a way of his character at that time into maturity and his relationship with Danny.”
Boston Blue airs on CBS Fridays at 10 p.m. ET.
