At 65, with only a few furrows accentuating his rugged face, Selleck prefers to play flawed, complex characters whom he labels "kind of a mess." Case in point: Jesse Stone, the hard-drinking small-town police chief in a popular series of movies airing on CBS and based on Robert B. Parker's novels.
"Jesse's a decent man with a lot of issues," he says. "He's unpredictable and he breaks a lot of rules. But he's worth rooting for."
Selleck is executive producer on the series of movies, the first of which, Stone Cold, aired in 2005. He's also the co-writer on No Remorse, the sixth Stone film, which airs Sunday (9 p.m. ET/PT).
Selleck sees a resemblance between the rebellious Massachusetts lawman and his best-known TV character, Thomas Magnum, the Hawaii-based private investigator from the long-running 1980s series Magnum P.I.
"He's allowed to grow and change, like Magnum," Selleck says. "In that way, they're similar. Magnum was deeply flawed, and this character is even more flawed. The characters aren't the same at all, but there are common denominators."
Candid and personable, Selleck is also an amateur historian — though he's quick to point out "great holes" in his knowledge. He's particularly proud that some of Magnum's signature wardrobe pieces are on display in the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History. The character was most often seen in a Hawaiian shirt and Detroit Tigers baseball cap. (Selleck was born in Detroit and raised in California's suburban San Fernando Valley.) Though his shirt and hat are memorialized, it was his character's background that he says most impressed museum officials.
"The Smithsonian singled us out as the first show to recognize Vietnam veterans in a positive light," Selleck says. (Magnum was a veteran). "So I'm probably in there next to Archie Bunker's chair and Mary Tyler Moore's beret."
Selleck appears on the big screen with Ashton Kutcher and Katherine Heigl in Killers, out June 4. He also has shot a CBS drama pilot called Reagan's Law.
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