Nearly two years after his breakthrough series This Is Us went off the air, Justin Hartley is teasing a reunion with his former co-stars on his latest project.
The 46-year-old actor returns to the small screen for the firs time since This Is Us went off the air in 2022 with the upcoming CBS series Tracker.
While doing press for the series – debuting February 11 – Hartley opened up about the possibility of reuniting with some of his This Is Us co-stars.
The actor admitted to ET there is nothing in the works at the moment, but he’d love the chance to bring them aboard at some point.
‘I’m always thinking about ways to get back together with those guys,’ Hartley shared. ‘[But] it’d have to be something really special.’
Nearly two years after his breakthrough series This Is Us went off the air, Justin Hartley is teasing a reunion with his former co-stars on his latest project
The 46-year-old actor returns to the small screen for the firs time since This Is Us went off the air in 2022 with the upcoming CBS series Tracker
While doing press for the series – debuting February 11 – Hartley opened up about the possibility of reuniting with some of his This Is Us co-stars
Hartley jokingly suggested the possibility of a very meta crossover episode.
‘Maybe we could find out [my character’s] such a good tracker, maybe he finds Jack [Pearson],’ Hartley joked of Milo Ventimiglia’s This Is Us character.
‘Like [maybe] he never died, something like that?’ he added.
Hartley played Kevin Pearson for all six seasons spanning 106 episodes, admitting that he will be taking that role with him forever.
‘I will always take pieces of Kevin Pearson with me everywhere I go. It’s exhausting work diving into another character, because you you do have to start over,’ he said.
Hartley is starting over with Colter Shaw in Tracker, based on the bestselling novel The Never Game by Jeffery Deaver.
Shaw is described as, ‘a lone-wolf survivalist who roams the country as a reward seeker, using his expert tracking skills to help private citizens and law enforcement solve all manner of mysteries while contending with his own fractured family.’
The series was given the sought-after post-Super-Bowl debut slot, airing directly after Super Bowl LVIII on CBS, which shows the network’s level of confidence in the show.
Hartley jokingly suggested the possibility of a very meta crossover episode.
Hartley played Kevin Pearson for all six seasons spanning 106 episodes, admitting that he will be taking that role with him forever
The series was given the sought-after post-Super-Bowl debut slot, airing directly after Super Bowl LVIII on CBS, which shows the network’s level of confidence in the show
‘It feels good. We worked really hard on this pilot and we did something I think is really special,’ he said.
Hartley also serves as executive producer on the series, explaining that it’s, ‘a show that I just haven’t seen before.
‘[We] got the rights to the book… and in reading that book, I fell in love with that character,’ he added.
‘This lone wolf survivalist, the idea of this guy who is raised in a certain way where his father took him off the grid, taught him how to be a survivalist, and then you have him as an adult using all of those skills to help other people roaming around the country. He lives in an Airstream. I just love the idea of that the guy is so free,’ he said.
