-Congratulations on the success of the show.
We had Chrissy Metz -- Your co-star was here last week.
-Love her.
And we were just talking about --
And I wonder what it´s like for you.
Obviously, you started shooting the show last year.
You had shot a bunch of episodes before any of us saw it.
-Right.
-So it was not the giant hit it is now.
Has your life changed shooting Season 2,
versus how it was Season 1?
-Well, I mean, I´m sitting here next to you.
-That´s true.
We would have had no interest in having you here.
-No, no, no. No, it was less than zero.
Yeah. No, no. It has.
You know, so, we had this trailer that came out
at the beginning of the series,
and a bunch of people sort of took to the trailer.
-Mm-hmm.
-So, we kind of knew there was interest there,
but it hadn´t aired yet, and it was just the trailer.
It was a 2-minute thing or whatever.
And then the show started gaining momentum,
and it just kept going and going and going.
And now we´re into Season 2.
And we´ve had this long sort of --
this hiatus, where everyone has been, you know,
missing the show and wanting the show to come back.
So there´s been that buildup.
And now we finally came back last week,
and the ratings were better than ever, thank goodness.
-Yeah, congratulations. -Thank you.
-I will tell you --
on just the scope and the reach of your show, I did a cameo.
I played myself, a cameo in one of the episodes.
-It was one of my favorite moments.
-Thank you very much. -Yeah. No, it was.
-I stumbled on you and -- Kevin and Randall fighting.
And I can tell you I got more calls and e-mails
from friends about that than I ever do about this.
Like, people genuinely said,
"You were so good in ´This Is Us.´
Are you doing anything else?"
-Oh, that´s great. That´s great. I get the same kind of thing.
You know, I did a sci-fi show for a while,
and there was that fan base out there
that just watches sci-fi shows.
And, so, they´ll say to me -- They´ll be like, "Oh, my God!
Green Arrow from ´Smallville.´ What? Did you just quit acting?"
And I´m like -- I don´t even know what to say.
I´m like, "Yeah, I´m done. I quit."
-That´s better.
They don´t want to see where Green Arrow is now.
"No arrows?! You don´t have any arrows."
-Yeah, exactly. Just tears.
-But, so, we did this cameo together.
That was the first time we met.
It was lovely to hang out with you.
But then I did not realize we had been in a movie.
This is true.
We had been in a movie before together,
but we did not have any scenes together.
It was called "Spring Breakdown."
Rachel Dratch wrote it.
And we both played love interests of her.
-Yeah.
-You played the hunky guy she meets on spring break --
shirt off, looking rad.
And I, her very dear friend, was cast as her gay fiancé.
So, that is me.
-That´s great. That´s great.
-You know, when she called and said I won a part,
I just assumed I´d be a shirt-off hunk,
and she went a different way.
-She went a different way. -She went a different way.
-We can´t get away from each other.
-You got to work with Sylvester Stallone.
-Yeah. -How was that?
-I mean, it´s everything you
could possibly imagine times ten.
It is -- I mean, I grew up watching his movies.
-Yep. -I´ve wanted to be Rocky.
And, for a moment in my life, I think I thought I was Rocky.
-Sure. -And then there he is.
I worked out with him at the gym a few times.
We go to the same gym. How cool is that?
And then Milo knows him and sort of made a phone call.
And he came.
And graciously accepted to do the role.
And he´s on set, and here he is, Sylvester Stallone.
And you´re like, "How am I supposed to work
with this guy, a legend?"
And he immediately disarms you.
He immediately, like, puts everybody at ease.
And he´s just, like, the coolest guy in the world,
and you´re just having a conversation.
And then he does a bang-up job, is a wonderful actor.
says a few gracious words, tells a few jokes,
and then he leaves,
and as soon as he leaves, you´re like, "Oh!"
You missed him. You were like, "Oh!
Come back, Sly! Come back!"
-You didn´t know how good you had it.
-He´s the real deal, man. He´s the real -- It´s amazing.
-That´s really exciting. You have a 13-year-old daughter.
-I do. -And is she a fan of the show?
Is this correct? -Uh-huh. Yeah, yeah.
-Is this exciting for you?
Is this the first time
she has liked a piece of your work like this?
-Yeah. I mean, kind of.
I think she --
No, not liked, but I think it´s the first time
it was, like, cool.
-Sure. ´Cause you´re on a hit show
that, probably, I´m assuming a lot of her friends watch.
-I mean, the parent-teacher stuff is great.
You know, going to the school is great.
I´m allowed to go to the school now, which is great.
-That´s nice.
-Yeah, ´cause I was on a -- Yeah, I was on a --
It was a hiatus for a year or two, and now I´m back.
-Just, yeah, wait in the parking lot,
and now you can actually walk --
-Yeah, she´s like, "You´re, like, as cool as a 13-year-old."
And I was like, "Well, thank you."
-Whoa! -What a compliment.
-That is high praise. -Life goals right there, man.
Life goals.
-You go to a lot of Dodgers games.
Congratulations on making the postseason.
-Thank you. Thank you. No, I bleed blue.
I´m a diehard, lifelong Dodger fan.
I have been since I was a kid.
My dad was a big Dodger fan when we were growing up.
So, I was the only kid in Chicago
that was, like, a Dodger fan.
People would see the blue hat, and then I´d turn around.
They´d be like, "Boo!" You know?
And, so -- -Optimistic? Hopeful?
How do you feel?
-I´m hopeful and optimistic every year.
We stumbled a little bit going into the playoffs,
but I feel like that builds character
and I feel like --
You know, they don´t need any pep talks, obviously.
They´ve got some great pitching
and they´ve got a lot of great players,
a lot of energy, and they´re good as a team
when they play well together, and they can do it.
And I´m feeling good about this year.
-I think they would take that as a pretty good pep talk.
I like that you did that sort of back-door thing,
where you said, "This isn´t a pep talk,"
but then you gave a pep talk.
-That´s right. -Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, you can´t just go right at it.
They´d be like, "Why are we listening to this guy?"
But the way you said it, I think they were like,
"Hey, what´s he saying?"
-Don´t take any advice from me, but this is what I would do.
-Well, best of luck on that. And congratulations on Season 2.
-Thank you. Thank you so much.