It makes you feel like you’re worth something here on Earth. But doing that gave me the greatest feeling. I got on an airplane, made it to New York, to Hawaii, with my wife Nancy’s help. I’m hoping that people watching that are handicapped or stroke-ridden like me, to take good advice from me: If you want to do it, you can do it. Then Kevin Wade says, “We want Manetti in the wheelchair.” Tom knew I was very capable in it. I did those and a movie, but nobody wanted me in a wheelchair. We didn’t see you in a wheelchair on your Magnum episodes, right? But I had a good time zipping around in that thing on the set. It was extremely courageous of them to use a handicapped actor, not knowing what his capabilities are, and putting him on the show. I’m pretty capable, except that I have a very, very difficult time walking. I’ve never said this before in an interview, but I had a stroke seven years ago. It seems that the retired cop was in a wheelchair. I never did a show as a guest star that I was so enthused and excited about. Selleck and everybody on the show bent over backward for me, treated me like a king. I worked with Vanessa Ray and she was so wonderful, giving, and a great actress. Wonderful! I love the show and I watch it religiously. Finally, about 1.5 years ago, he told the exec producer/writer Kevin Wade, “You know, I’d love to get my friend Larry Manetti on Blue Bloods.” Kevin said he’d think about it and, while he was recuperating from a neck problem, while he surfed TV, he saw a few episodes of other shows I did and told his writers to “find something for Larry Manetti - he’d be good for this show.”Ī post shared by DONNIE WAHLBERG was the Blue Bloods experience? Larry Manetti: First of all, Tom did not want to put me on the show because he thought it would confuse the audience because of Magnum.

How did your guest spot in the April 21 episode, “Family Matters” come about? Why did it take so long for you to show up on Blue Bloods? The 75-year-old actor tells us all about the episode and his time on the show and offers an exclusive update on his health. But it’s taken him 13 years to film an episode of his still great friend Selleck’s Blue Bloods. Manetti has shown up in several episodes of the rebooted Magnum series in a new role as retired crooner Nicky Demarco (with one more appearance slated). who can get their minds off the hunky Tom Selleck in his shorts and Hawaiian shirts, probably fondly remember his former Marine buddy turned beach club manager Orville “Rick “Wright, the comic relief, mob -connected brawler played by Larry Manetti.

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