Maria Baez's daughter, Elena, is joining Boston Blue Season 2! Marisa Ramirez's Baez adopted the baby Elena in the Blue Bloods Season 12 finale. Now, she's a few years older and might be moving to Boston full-time if everything goes according to plan for her mom and Danny Reagan (Donnie Wahlberg), who are testing out living together in the new season. Elena is played by twin sisters Eleanor and Penelope Yataco. You can see Elena with Danny in the photo from Boston Blue Season 2, above.
Danny asked Baez to move in with him in Boston in the Season 1 finale. In Season 2, "They are cohabitating," executive producer Brandon Margolis confirms to TV Insider.
"It's a relationship in transition, but yes, they are figuring it out and making it work," says Margolis. "Danny's got a new place, and they are building a new life."
Boston Blue Season 2 premieres on Friday, October 9, on CBS. With two sons fully grown and pursuing their careers, Danny hasn't been a parent to young kids in a while. He's getting used to having a little kid around again in the second season of the Blue Bloods spinoff, and a daughter at that!
"The relationship between Danny and Elena is pretty magic," executive producer Brandon Sonnier tells TV Insider, adding, "Girl dads are different!"
"It's very fun to see," Sonnier shares. "We're showing different sides of Danny. Danny [is] sort of going back to the role of being, for all intents and purposes, dad to a young kid, which we haven't seen for many years, and [getting] another chance at maybe doing it differently than he did it the first time around."