After portraying Donnie Wahlberg’s on-screen son for 14 seasons of Blue Bloods, Andrew Terraciano is finally sharing whether he’s checked out the spinoff Boston Blue especially since the role was recast.
“I’m getting around to it,” Terraciano, 22, told Us Weekly with a laugh. “I’ve been incredibly busy. I’m working on my master’s degree right now, which basically means I’ve had to put almost all TV on hold unless it’s something I’m watching for a class.”
Even with his demanding graduate-school workload, Terraciano who first brought Sean to life on Blue Bloods isn’t closing the door on watching the fan-favorite spinoff. In fact, he hinted that Boston Blue is still on his list once life slows down enough for him to finally press play.
“I’m going to give it the time and the respect it deserves,” he said, before opening up about whether he’d ever return even though Mika Amonsen has now stepped into the role of Donnie Wahlberg’s son on CBS’ newest hit.
“I told Donnie on the phone, if he says the word, I’ll be there,” Terraciano shared. “And not just for Blue Bloods or Boston Blue for anything in life.”
Terraciano became a familiar face to viewers during Blue Bloods’ original run from 2010 to 2024. Although the franchise is moving forward with Boston Blue and without him he made it clear how grateful he remains for the show that launched his career.
“It was my first truly substantial acting role,” he reflected. “I was only 6 when my brother and I got the parts he was 8 so the whole thing was a whirlwind. We didn’t fully understand what was happening. Honestly, I’m not sure my parents did either,” he added with a laugh. “We had no idea what we were walking into. Then my dad found out Tom Selleck was going to star in it, and he immediately called his mom. They both freaked out.”
Terraciano admitted that stepping into the Blue Bloods world as a child was “super intimidating” at times.
“It was immediately all of us as a cast going, ‘Alright, whatever this is, we’re going to figure it out and we’re going to have fun doing it,’” he remembered. “And every time we returned to New York and saw each other again, it felt like reuniting with old friends. That feeling never went away.”
As he grew up on-screen, Terraciano cherished the rare chance to evolve alongside Sean, the character he played for more than a decade.
“Most people don’t get the experience of leaving one season and coming back two feet taller with a completely different voice,” he joked. “Every moment of finding myself was also a moment of discovering who Sean was. We both grew at the same time not just in how we played scenes on set, but in the family dynamics we portrayed. It was incredible.”
Alongside sharing scenes with Donnie Wahlberg, Bridget Moynahan, Will Estes, Len Cariou, and Tom Selleck, Terraciano also got to work closely with his real-life older brother, Tony, who played his sibling on screen as well.
“Neither of us were classically trained actors. All of our learning happened on the job,” Andrew explained. “We’d sit down together, talk through our ideas, read a little acting theory, and then go out there and try to apply it. We were on the same football team, had the same practices and I have a twin sister too, so that dynamic of growing up side by side is familiar in a lot of ways.”
He added, “We could fight, we could annoy each other, we could hate each other in the moment but we’d always love each other. That never changed.”
Even though neither brother returned for Boston Blue, Andrew has stayed busy, thriving academically and continuing to pursue his passion for acting.
“At the end of last spring, I had the incredible opportunity to work on a close friend director Sabrina Carlier’s production of Annie Baker’s The Antipodes,” he said. “It was not only my first time doing theater, but the experience completely pulled me into that world. It reminded me just how deeply I love every form of acting. I even helped produce a friend’s short film recently. Now, I look forward to every single opportunity I get to perform.”
He continued with the same heartfelt enthusiasm. “When you find that passion, it sticks with you. You can’t shake it. I want to keep acting and creating in any way I possibly can. I would love nothing more than to be an actor for the rest of my life. And honestly? I’m a massive Star Wars fan I’d do absolutely anything in that universe. I’d also love to take a shot at a sitcom someday.”
