Yahoo Finance Justin Hartley Teases His Idea to Revive Milo Ventimiglia's Jack Pearson After “This Is Us ”Death
"It'd have to be something really special,” said Hartley, who portrayed Kevin Pearson on 'This Is Us'
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Justin Hartley (left) and Milo VentimigliaJustin Hartley is brainstorming ways to reunite with his costars — and bring back one of This Is Us' most beloved characters in the process.
Hartley, 46, recently shared with Entertainment Tonight that he’s open to welcoming his former This Is Us costars as guest stars on his new CBS series, Tracker.
After the actor shared how “fun” it would be to reunite with the cast — which includes Milo Ventimiglia, Mandy Moore, Sterling K. Brown, Chrissy Metz and Susan Kelechi Watson — he said, “I'm always thinking about ways to get back together with those guys. It'd have to be something really special."
The actor then proposed a possible episode that facilitates a crossover between both series and would guest star Ventimiglia. The Gilmore Girls actor, 46, starred as Jack Pearson, the father to Hartley's character Kevin Pearson, on This Is Us for its entire six-season run.
"Maybe we could find out [my character's] such a good tracker. Maybe he finds Jack? Like maybe he never died, something like that? A plot twist," Hartley suggested.
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He then quipped about how audiences would react if that plotline actually made it to the screen. “Could you imagine? Like he is good," he said.
While the Tracker star toyed with the possibility of welcoming his former costars to set, he also emphasized how important his role as Kevin Pearson was to his acting career.
"I will always take pieces of Kevin Pearson with me everywhere I go," revealed Hartley. “He had so many emotional [scenes] — talk about an emotional spectrum that guy ran the gamut.”
“It's exhausting work diving into another character, because you you do have to start over," he added.
Prior to Hartley’s upcoming CBS series, he starred in the Emmy-winning NBC series for six seasons before it concluded in 2022.
Hartley’s upcoming project will see him star as Colter Shaw, "a lone-wolf survivalist who roams the country as a reward seeker,” according to the network. Throughout the series, Shaw will use “his expert tracking skills to help private citizens and law enforcement solve all manner of mysteries while contending with his own fractured family.”
The CBS original series was created by Ben H. Winters based on The Never Game by Jeffery Deaver.
While speaking to ET, Hartley noted that he loves how Shaw is “so free.”
“He's a restless guy,” he explained. “He’s definitely got his past, but I just liked the idea of this guy just having total control and freedom of his own life and helping people along the way.”
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Justin Hartley as Colter Shaw in 'Tracker'Addressing what drew him to the show as both the star and executive producer, Hartley said, "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 continued, "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.”
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Tracker premieres after Super Bowl LVIII on Sunday, Feb. 11, 2024.
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