{"id":550525,"date":"2026-04-25T20:10:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T20:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/550525\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T20:10:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T20:10:15","slug":"donnie-wahlberg-offered-half-of-his-pay-to-film-boston-blue-in-boston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/550525\/","title":{"rendered":"Donnie Wahlberg Offered Half of His Pay to Film Boston Blue in Boston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/donnie-wahlberg\/\" id=\"auto-tag_donnie-wahlberg\" data-tag=\"donnie-wahlberg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Donnie Wahlberg<\/a> says he went as far as offering up a significant portion of his paycheck in an effort to film \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/boston-blue\/\" id=\"auto-tag_boston-blue\" data-tag=\"boston-blue\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Boston Blue<\/a>\u201d in his hometown, but the economics of television production ultimately won out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tSpeaking on SiriusXM\u2019s Radio Andy, Wahlberg detailed his push to keep the \u201cBoston Blue\u201d spinoff authentic to its setting. The series, a continuation of his long-running \u201cBlue Bloods\u201d character Danny Reagan, is set in Boston but largely filmed in Toronto due to cost considerations.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cWhen I got offered the job, I\u2019m like, \u2018This is a dream come true.\u2019 I thought, I\u2019ll do a spinoff in L.A. or Vegas or Texas, somewhere hot,\u201d Wahlberg said during the interview. \u201cAnd they were like, \u2018How about Boston?\u2019 I was like, \u2018Ahhhh.\u2019 They hooked me. And I was like, \u2018Alright, let\u2019s do it in Boston.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tHowever, he said producers quickly made clear that filming there wasn\u2019t financially viable. \u201cAnd they were like, \u2018But we can\u2019t afford to shoot it in Boston, we\u2019re gonna shoot it in Toronto.\u2019 I was like, \u2018No, no.\u2019 So, I said, \u2018Listen, I\u2019ll give back 50% of my paycheck if we can go to Boston.\u2019 I did,\u201d Wahlberg continued. \u201cAnd they said, \u2018You can give back 100% and so can the rest of the cast, we cannot film this show in Boston.\u2019 It\u2019s so expensive. For the most part, we shoot in Toronto.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tWahlberg added that even beyond cost, filming in Boston presents logistical challenges, noting that crowds and tour groups frequently disrupt shoots.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cBoston Blue\u201d has already been renewed for a second season. Season 1 is currently streaming on Paramount+.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Donnie Wahlberg says he went as far as offering up a significant portion of his paycheck in an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":550526,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[122092,6491,189402,96,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-550525","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-boston-blue","9":"tag-celebrities","10":"tag-donnie-wahlberg","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=550525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550525\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/550526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}