As Boston Blue prepares for an explosive season finale, Sonequa Martin-Green teased a difficult revelation.
“What a journey I take as Lena Silver. There’s some threads of it in the beginning of the season [and] you’ll begin to see us delving into some really serious things,” Martin-Green exclusively told Us Weekly about what continues to be to return.
Martin-Green warned that there “were difficult stories to inform.”
“I applaud Brandon Sonnier — our coshowrunner — since the Silver family relies on his family. There are a whole lot of dynamics in Lena’s life which might be based on his life,” she continued. “So that is real and that is authentic. That is his experience. So I’m just so excited for people to see it since it’s rough. It’s rough stuff that Lena is about to undergo for the remainder of the season.”
Throughout the Friday, April 10, episode of the Blue Bloods spinoff, Lena was seen asking her mother, Mae (Gloria Reuben), for more details on her birth father. Mae was reluctant to open up concerning the past — and that can proceed to be addressed on the show.
“It’s going to have a ripple effect. It’s going to be time for this family to begin unearthing some serious stuff. We went there and we went to those difficult places since the story was just really necessary,” the actress noted. “I’m really hoping that folks can relate to it and may see examples of it in their very own lives.”
Martin-Green recalled a mess of conversations being sparked on screen.
“We’re only one example of it. We’re a pretend example but I believe that sometimes examples are needed to be seen,” she continued. “Lena is a cool cat — as I wish to call her — and it’s nice if you get to see layers with any person like that. She is self-assured, confident and carries herself with ease and smoothness. It’s really good storytelling to see someone like that be broken down and humbled.”
Lena was introduced to Us when Boston Blue premiered in October 2025. Along with being Danny’s (Donnie Wahlberg) recent partner, Martin-Green’s character brought in a brand new fictional family into the Blue Bloods universe: the Silvers.
“We’re standing on the shoulders of Blue Bloods and there’s so many amazing characters and relationships,” she told Us. “I don’t take that frivolously.”
Martin-Green did use the chance to take what Blue Bloods built to pave the way in which for more authentic and necessary storytelling. Through Lena, Martin-Green was thrilled to expand the world with stories while offering insight right into a Boston detective finding her place while a part of a noted police family.
“There have been the detectives on the BPD that actually made an impact on me. It was amazing to have the option to be there in person and see after which continuing to have those conversations on set is just invaluable,” she shared. “We ask them for a few of every thing and so they are so open and willing and collaborative and gracious and generous with their stories which might be difficult. I’ve been learning quite a bit about what it means to be a cop. I’m pulling from all of the resources that I even have around me.”
The work didn’t stop with the scenes Martin-Green filmed. She also spoke to Us about constructing Lena out through her wardrobe as well, saying, “It’s a conversation that we proceed to have about finding that balance since you don’t need to be able where you’re standing out but you furthermore mght need to be put together. There’s something so elegant to me about Lena but additionally understated. The suits are a necessity because I even have to wear those. Nevertheless it was about, let’s work with certain cuts which have more of a femininity to them. It’s great to only dive into your femininity and into your softness because you’ve to have that masculine shield up if you’re at work.”
She added: “You have got to place that force field up since the job just requires it. But if you’re home, you possibly can be soft and you possibly can sink into that softness. I would like to continue to grow in that and I appreciate that it’s a collaboration and that we’re capable of have these conversations.”
Looking ahead, Martin-Green is worked up about where the show goes from here.
“I just can’t stress enough how grateful I’m to be telling a character-driven story in a procedural format. I couldn’t have imagined and I actually appreciate it. We cover quite a bit and quite a bit goes down by the top of the season,” she told Us. “There are a whole lot of things which might be open-ended. There are such a lot of questions and so many things have been introduced. Things are so big within the second half of the season that I feel like we’re going to see the undoing of all of those things — or the approaching together of all of those things — for episodes and episodes to return.
Martin-Green can also be starring in Rick Gomez‘s directorial debut She Dances, which follows a struggling father who attempts to reconnect along with his daughter while serving as her chaperone at a dance competition. Steve Zahn, Ethan Hawke, Mackenzie Ziegler, Rosemarie DeWitt and Audrey Zahn make up the remainder of the forged of the movie, which is out now.
Boston Blue airs on CBS Fridays at 10 p.m. ET. Recent episodes stream the subsequent day on Paramount+.