-You were telling me backstage that you were very stressed out
because --
-Well, I'm typically not stressed out.
But I am -- Well, I was sharing with him,
my daughter -- Oh, God. She's wonderful,
but she's 15 now, 15 going on like 50.
And she's --
Brother, she's dating a little bit.
And I -- Yeah, man, I just want to crawl into a hole and die.
I know it's a natural thing.
I know it's a healthy thing. She's wonderful. She's sweet.
She's responsible. She's great. She's earned the trust.
-Of course. -But I hate -- I hate it.
-No, it's not -- -I hate all of it.
-You really hate it. Really.
-Yeah, I've never loathed anything more in my life, man,
'cause I loved her first, man. You know what I mean?
-Aww, that's right. You loved her first. You're the dad. Yeah.
But, I mean, you've not met -- There hasn't been one guy
you go, "Okay, maybe he's cool."
-Well, uh, no.
Not even close, man. Not even close.
I have yet to meet me, right?
When I meet me, that's the guy.
-That's the guy, yeah.
But do you remember what you were like?
-Not like me.
Yeah, I don't want her to meet that guy.
-No, exactly. Yeah, yeah.
-She'll be all right. She'll figure it out, you know?
She'll figure it out. I got, like,
some stress sort of releases.
-What are you doing to relieve stress?
-Well, I've picked up -- My wife and I moved,
and so I have a little, tiny basketball court in my backyard.
-That small?
-Well, but look at my finger. Look how -- Yeah, so, I broke --
We have a basketball tournament with a bunch of us old guys
get together, and we're like, "Let's play basketball.
What could go wrong?" -Yeah, no.
-And then we have people with, like, sprained ankles,
sprained knees. ACLs are blown out.
We have tendinitis. I have a broken finger.
-Do you have awards for that stuff?
-It's amazing. I got everybody medals.
So, we won the gold medal, so then, like,
the next day at brunch I'm wearing the gold medal,
and my wife is like, "Really?"
And I'm like, "Hey, this is --
Come on. I paid for this."
She's like, "I cannot believe this is happening."
I'm like, "If only my daughter could meet a guy like me."
-"Now hand me my crutches so I can get breakfast."
[ Laughing ] Yeah, exactly.
"This Is Us" premiered tonight.
-Yeah! Finally. -This is the big night.
-Finally. The wait is over. We've --
And it's so hard, like, keeping those secrets,
you know, because we're taping episode 7 right now.
So it's great that it aired,
one, selfishly, because now
people, instead of asking me what's going to happen next,
they want to talk about what they just saw,
which kind of lets me off the hook
because I got to sometimes --
-Yeah, 'cause sometimes you've been on our show, and I go,
"What can you tell us?" And you go,
"I can't tell you anything." -Yeah, I'm sorry, man.
-Like one thing. I know -- No, I get it,
but also, you don't really even know, do you?
-Somet-- Yeah. I mean, like I said, we're on episode 7 now,
so we do, but --
Yeah, and then he kind of -- Dan has filled us in
as to sort of where the show's going,
where it ends up and everything.
It's great. You all are going to love it for years to come.
You're going to love it. You're going to love it.
-Is there anything that surprised you,
like, when you first --
-Sure. -You're like, "Oh, wow,
I didn't know that." -Well, when I --
I remember when I found out that Kevin was -- had a wife,
that he was -- used to be married.
-Oh, yeah. -I didn't find that out
until about -- I think it might have been like a month
before we shot it. And I was like, "Wait a minute.
Oh, this is so great. Like, I guess --"
As then as an actor, you think, "Well, does that change anything
about the way I played these particular scenes before?"
But it really didn't.
-Well, it goes to the future and the past.
But just like the first episode,
this episode that aired tonight had a good twist.
-Yes. -A good, like, zap,
like, "What is this show --"
-That's right, yeah. Very much --
-No, I'm not telling you! I wouldn't --
Won't say anything. I know we're live,
but I'm not rude. Hello, yeah.
You're not allowed to talk about "This Is Us"
for another 10 years. We know that.
That's the spoiler rule. -Yeah, and what is the cutoff,
by the way? I tell people, "Oh, yeah, you know --"
and then I tell them about Jack. I don't want to even say it.
-No, yeah. They go --
-Yeah, and they're like, "What?!"
And I'm like, "It was like 2004! Like, where were you?"
-No, they go, "Ross and Rachel are on a break."
They're like, "What?!" -"On a break?"
-Yeah, exactly. -"They're on a break?
You ruined this --"
-M. Night Shyamalan --
-Yeah, so, he comes on, and he --
-He's part of the cast. -He's part of the cast.
He's great. He's directing Kevin.
-That was in the trailer. I didn't spoil it.
-Yeah, and he has these sort of, like --
He's a very thought-provoking kind of guy.
Have you spent time with him? He's a very smart,
very interesting -- -Dude, you know what's
the best story ever? He was in my audience.
-I heard about this,
just because he wanted to see your show.
-And I'm going through the audience. I'm slapping five.
I go, "Hey, thanks for coming." I'm like, "Hey.
M. Night Shyamalan, what are you --"
He's like, "I --" He just --
He just pops up. He's magical. -I know.
I'm like, do you have that amount of available time?
Like, I thought he was working like all the time.
-But that's how he keeps his brain so tricky.
-He's so great, yeah. -I want to show a clip.
Here's Justin Hartley in next week's episode of "This Is Us."
Take a look. [ Audience cheering ]
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-And cut. Fantastic.
-Hey.
♪♪
-Hey, man. -Hi. Thanks for the opportunity.
I really appreciate it. That was fun.
And thanks for being a good sport
about all the "I see dead people" jokes.
-Yeah, that never gets old. -I bet.
-Yeah. -[ Chuckles ]
All right. -You know, when --
You know, when you strip away all the artifice,
all those tricks you use
to make yourself seem appealing and charming and handsome,
when you let all that crap go?
You're absolutely incredible.
♪♪
-I mean, come on. [ Cheers and applause ]
Learn a little bit from Night. -That's right.
-Justin Hartley, everybody!
"This Is Us" airs Tuesdays at 9:00 p.m. on NBC!