One of the newer characters on "Blue Bloods" is Jamie's wife, Eddie Janko-Reagan, played by Vanessa Ray. When joining the cast, she was intimidated by the iconic dinner scenes and terrified of messing up. In a WFSB 3 interview with Ray and Will Estes, Estes tried to ease her anxiety.
"It's a scary room to forget a line at," Estes admits. "When you go up on a line at that table, it's a lot of people watching you mess up." He also added that, as patient as the cast is, they will call out mistakes — in an odd way. "They will snore at you," he said, giving an example. Fortunately, that hadn't happened to Ray ... yet.
It's not surprising that the cast would make mistakes during the dinner scenes, which notoriously take hours to shoot and can be grueling. "It's nice to spend time with the entire cast once an episode, but filming an eating scene is miserable," Tom Selleck told CinemaBlend. "We'll probably spend eight hours shooting this scene." That often means eating the same foods repeatedly, like pot roast or meatloaf, sometimes at 9 in the morning, per Country Living — or pretending to eat. Though apparently, Donnie Wahlberg's Danny doesn't pretend. "Danny probably eats the most because Donnie's the hungriest," Wahlberg joked to TV Insider. "Seriously though, Danny is kind of a bull in a china shop. The best way to play that at dinner is to talk a lot with his mouth full."
