Paying tribute to a great. Tom Selleck remembered his Three Men and a Baby director Leonard Nimoy on Tuesday, March 3, speaking to Seth Meyers on Late Night about the celebrated star.
Selleck, 70, appeared on the late-night talk show just four days after Nimoy passed away. The Star Trek alum died in California on Friday, Feb. 27, at the age of 83. While he may have been best known for his role as Spock, Nimoy had a diverse resume, including a gig directing the 1980s classic Three Men and a Baby, which starred Selleck with Steve Guttenberg and Ted Danson.
"I didn't know Leonard when he came onto the movie," Selleck explained to host Meyers, 41. "We had had a French director… [but] they brought on Leonard."
"I'm going, 'Well there's a good choice,'" the Magnum, P.I. star joked, going on to reference the cold personality of Nimoy's Stark Trek character. "You got this guy with no emotion who's gonna do a funny little comedy."
While Selleck may have been skeptical of Nimoy at first, he quickly came around on the Emmy-nominated star.
"Leonard was irreplaceable," Selleck reminisced. "He's a lovely guy, he is not Spock. He was a warm, funny guy, but he was just a fine director. I don't think you could overstate his contribution to that movie. It was a big deal, that movie."
"He was so good…" the Blue Bloods actor added. "Bless him, a lovely man."
Watch Selleck remember Nimoy in the video above.
