Why Tom Selleck ‘Didn’t Like’ His Early ‘Magnum, P.I.’ Stardom: ‘It Was a Lot to Adjust to’

“I didn’t like it,” Selleck said of all that sudden attention. “Mainly because of family and a sense of privacy.”

“I started getting asked questions in interviews that I didn’t want to say — give an answer to,” he added. “I was trying to — I said, ‘You better find a way and find a line about what you’re going to talk about.’ I didn’t always succeed, but it just grew, and I still can’t quite describe it.”

“It was really, I don’t know, a lot to adjust to, I think,” he told Danson.

Still, he noted that shooting in Hawaii helped. “Say the same show was in L.A., and it got the same kind of heat,” he said. “I don’t know how people do that. I had this huge buffer, and it was a blessing.”