'It's Your Funeral': Blue Bloods' Eddie Janko Actress Opens Up About Learning The Family Dinner Scene Ropes From Bridget Moynahan
By Megan Behnke,
6 hours ago
The final episodes of Blue Bloods are airing now on the 2024 TV schedule , and fans are preparing themselves for the final Reagan family dinners . The meals are a staple of the long-running CBS procedural, and it’s always an entertaining aspect of each episode as they can involve arguments, closure, or even someone new joining the family. However, filming the food-focused scenes can be tough, as Vanessa Ray explained while also revealing what she's learned about them from her on-screen sister-in-law, Bridget Moynahan.
Ray joined Blue Bloods in Season 4 as Jamie’s new partner, but she didn’t start coming around to the famous family dinners until the end of Season 8 after Eddie and Jamie got engaged. While she had already been on the show for four seasons at that point, being part of the Reagan's dinners wasn’t so easy at first.
Via Entertainment Weekly , Ray revealed during a PaleyFest panel that she was excited to do the scenes. However, she quickly learned how hard it is to film for a long time with food while revealing the sage advice Bridget Moynahan gave her:
It sounds like Moynahan had everything figured out and was merely just trying to warn Ray, who didn’t really take her advice at first. However, eventually, she did, which proved to work in her favor.
It turns out, the Erin actress has more than one trick up her sleeve too when it comes to filming these scenes, as Tom Selleck explained:
Everyone has their own tips for getting through these scenes after 14 seasons of Blue Bloods , and it’s clear that there are some masters of the family dinners. Now that Vanessa Ray has been doing them for six seasons, she probably has some of her own tips as well.
While learning about how these iconic scenes is certainly fun, these final Reagan family dinners are going to be hard to watch. However, at least fans can tune in for the final episodes as they air on CBS every Friday at 10 p.m. ET on CBS and stream the entire series with a Paramount+ subscription .
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What is real
43m ago
Too bad, it was one of the few shows I’d watch on cbs. In fact the only show of quality.
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47m ago
I love blue bloods. They’re all such good characters
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