In an interview with GQ, Selleck said he believes in the role of the patriarch and disagrees with how modern TV shows portray fathers as idiots.
Selleck is one of the few celebrities of his caliber who has never tried drugs.
Despite his daughter Hannah being his only biological child, Selleck adopted his first wife’s son Kevin. Kevin Selleck grew up to be an actor himself and had a role in Scream 2.
When Tom Selleck was offered the role of Indiana Jones, he had already signed on for the role of Magnum P.I, and he decided the honorable thing to do would be to stick with his first obligation. However, filming for ‘Magnum P.I’ got delayed by six months, in that time, he would have finished filming his scenes in ‘Indiana Jones’. Not only that but while waiting for filming of ‘Magnum P.I’ to begin he was in Hawaii, which is the location where Steven Spielberg and George Lucas were filming the ‘Lost Arc’ movie.
Around 1996, rumors of John Hillerman’s death began to spread, this, however, was incorrect and a case of mistaken identity, as the deceased was a different John Hillerman. The Magnum P.I star is still alive and kicking.
