Tom Selleck achieved his big breakout role when playing private investigator Thomas Magnum in Magnum, P.I. , going on to win several Emmy nominations and score more than 50 other film and television roles since.
But while his career has reached extraordinary heights since the 1980s, the actor has a love-hate relationship with fame. In a new interview, the Blue Bloods star admitted that his runaway stardom caused him a great deal of discomfort, having been catapulted to one of entertainment’s biggest stars at a time when he still wanted to claw back some privacy. ‘I didn’t like it,’ Selleck, 79, said as he reflected on the sudden interest in his life.
‘Mainly because of family and a sense of privacy.’ The veteran movie star added to People : ‘I started getting asked questions in interviews that I didn’t want to say, give an answer to. ‘I was trying to, I said, “You better find a way and find a line about what you’re going to talk about.
” I didn’t always succeed, but it just grew, and I still can’t quite describe it. ‘But I wasn’t going through it every day.’ Selleck went on to recall what kind of life he was living in his early days of fame, explaining that he ‘had a lovely one-bedroom house in Hawaii’, which he rented before he could afford to buy it.
While aware of his profession, the locals didn’t give him any hassle, as an actors’ strike meant they couldn’t start filming, leaving his neighbours blissfully unaware of his level of .