- Thank you so much for watching.
Right now we're reunited with Justin Hartley.
- Yes.
- Reunited and it feels ...
- So good. - So good.
- I can finally breathe again.
- You can breathe again.
How have you been, how's life?
I know you did a - Good.
- little bit of traveling.
- Did a little traveling, yeah, went to Maui.
Took my honeymoon finally, so that was good.
Just got back from Alaska not too long ago.
Went back to Chicago, visited some family and friends.
So I've been kinda traveling quite a bit.
- Now since we've last talked and I mean, I guess
for a while now everyone has been talking about
your story line last season and giving you so much praise.
What is that feedback like as an actor
and what does it mean to you to be able
to have portrayed Kevin's story line
last season like that?
- Thanks man.
- I mean it, like serious-
- Oh, thank you, thank you.
No, it's, obviously it's great you know and
I pour, well we all do, but I poured so much into that.
It's a huge effort, it's a huge undertaking
not just by me but by the entire crew.
- Yeah.
- My castmates, the writing staff, and so to get praise
on something that I feel like was a really difficult
storyline to pull off and I feel like we pulled it off
in a very respectful, real, honest way.
That feels good because it's such an important thing
that people, great people are dealing with
all over the world that I just wanted to make sure
we all wanted to make sure that it was done in a way
that was respectful of that but also very honest and true.
Which meant sort of, digging in and getting dirty
and we did that and I'm very proud of what we did.
So to get the praise and the feedback
it definitely means a lot.
- Awesome, now I mean it's a pretty emotional story.
I mean, what part of it impacted you the most personally?
Was there an aspect to it that...
- Man, all of it.
You know you got this guy who, seemingly has it all, right?
Gosh, when we find him, he seems like this surface guy
that just cares about fast cars and fast women
and big houses and popularity and money
and who likes me and what kind of clothes I'm wearing.
And then, as the story goes on you realize
that prejudgment that you had about this guy
has lead in a part to the very hole that he's in.
He's surrounded by people that are staring at him,
praising him, telling him how great he is
and yet he's in that room, completely and totally alone,
on an island, with no one to talk to
and it's the saddest thing I could possibly imagine
so that's sort of how I approached it.
And I think we needed the first season
to sort of tell that story to be able to go
oh okay, well, man, I saw him a certain way
and that's kind of what he's talking about.
- Yeah, now you've been acting for years.
What has landing this role, being a part of "This Is Us"
meant to you as an actor, has it changed your life?
- Yeah, it's everything, I mean, I'm not, I'll be totally
honest with you it's changed everything.
You dream as an, at least I do, I did
as an actor you dream to have a moment where you can
like they say, sink your teeth into something
and really challenge yourself and you like to believe
that if you were handed that challenge that you'd be
up for it but until you are, you never really know, right?
Until you actually are in it, and so yeah
it's changed everything, it's great.
It's wonderful to be able to do something
that I always thought that I could do.
To be actually given the opportunity to do it is,
it's nothing short of a dream honestly.
- Awesome, now let's play a game.
- I love games.
- Are you down for a game?
- What kind of game?
- I invented this game.
- (laughing) I love it already, what is it?
How hard can it be? - A lot can happen.
- Oh God.
- So I recently perused the internet to gather
some random facts about your co-stars.
- Oh God.
- So I wanna see if you can guess.
- Okay, no, I
- A guessing game kind of.
- Okay good, let's, you invented.
- I invented this.
- You invented the guessing game.
- The guessing game.
- Okay, alright, I didn't know that.
- Let's start.
- I feel like you're lying - These are random facts
off the internet and so they might not even be true but
- I think it was invented way before we're playing right now
but, okay, okay. - This is the first time ever.
- Agree to disagree.
- Which one of your co-stars was
discovered by a FedEx employee?
- Which one of my co-stars was discovered by
a FedEx employee, that would be Ms. Mandy Moore.
- Oh you know that?
- No, I didn't know that, am I right?
- Yeah, yeah, how did you guess that?
- Boom, see how confident-
- Why did you think her?
- Because I, that just seems like something
that would happen to her. - Would happen to her.
- Yeah, it seems like she would be walking her dog
or doing anything really and some FedEx guy
or even UPS would be like, excuse me, I think you should be
- I heard you were - a movie star.
- discovered by UPS actually.
- No, I was, I was not.
It was the water guy, yeah, no,
- He saw you.
- I haven't been discovered yet.
You know after you're done inventing games
you can discover me - Discover you.
- and then you can just keep-
- Let's do it, I can't wait
- Which one of your co-stars recently had lunch with Oprah?
- I feel like I'm the only one that didn't,
actually. - Was it all of them?
- Well, yeah I know, are you talking about Chrissy?
Or are you talking about Sterling?
You're probably talking about Chrissy?
- Chrissy. - Yeah.
- Chrissy was more recently I think.
- Okay, alright, still waiting for my phone call.
- Which one of your co-stars used to dress up as Madonna?
- Which one of my co-stars used to dress up like Madonna?
That would probably be, Chrissy?
- Nope.
- Was it Sterling?
- Nope.
- Was it Milo?
- Yeah.
- (laughing) Oh he hasn't changed a bit.
- It's really interesting. - I know that he does that now
I didn't know that he did that way back.
- He still does it, right?
- Yeah, yeah, yeah we both do.
- Fun stuff, you do? - Yeah yeah.
- Alright, which one of your co-stars grew up in Japan?
- Grew up in Japan?
- Yeah.
- One of them grew up in Japan?
- This is off the internet I just pulled
(mumbles) I think it's right.
For like, their formative years is what it said online.
- Oh, would that be Milo?
- No.
- Oh, would it be Chrissy?
- It was Chrissy, yeah.
- Okay, maybe that rings a bell.
- Who was born in the same hospital
as their significant other?
- Sterling.
- Yep.
- Isn't that amazing?
- That was a cool story.
- Yeah, it's a great story.
- Last one, who starred in "The Princess Diaries"?
- I feel like I'm doing pretty good at this.
- Yeah, you're pretty good.
- "Princess Diaries," who starred in "The Princess Diaries"?
- If you've ever seen "The Princess Diaries"
this is a big deal.
- Who starred in "The Princess Diaries," Mandy?
- Yeah.
- Yes.
- She was like the villain.
- I feel, really?
- Yeah.
- I feel like I got like a B plus or an A.
- I think you got most of them right.
- That's what happens.
- That's exactly what I'm
- This is me getting discovered.
- Now last, last question.
- Uh huh.
- What's a random fact about you
that no one knows about that...
- (sigh) I feel like I've told everybody everything
at this point, yeah I don't know if I have any random facts.
- Just make one up.
- Yeah, uh, gosh, gosh I don't know, you know.
I'm not 6'4", people think I'm 6'4", I'm 6'2".
There's a random fact for you.
- I've never heard of that, correct your image.
- I'm inventing boredom, yeah, making
people bored by listening to me.
- What do you want to say to viewers before we go?
- Oh, thank you, I get a chance to talk to the viewers.
- Yeah.
- Okay, gosh, so first of all thank you, for embracing
the show, thank you for watching, thank you for continuing
to watch and to have all of those emotions that we asked
that you have every week, I know it's a lot to ask.
But we really appreciate it, thank you for the job
and going forward, I can't wait to show you season three.
I think you're going to be blown away, it's our biggest,
best, that sounds so cliche but it's true.
- Have you got the scripts yet? Like a new teaser?
- No, I've just gotten like a download
of the outline of the season, so it's pretty amazing so
- Ron Howard movie - thank you for everything.
- that's coming out.
- Yeah, what do you mean?
- You're in it, you're in it.
- Yeah, in season three, yeah, a fake Ron Howard.
- It's gonna be awesome.
- Yeah.
- Awesome, thank you guys.
- Thank you.