Justin Hartley on Reuniting With Jared Padalecki and if This Is Us Cast Is Joining Tracker

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00:00We would like to see your This Is Us co-stars drop by the show.

00:02Yeah, me too.

00:03Have we talked to anyone?

00:05We have.

00:06Mandy's such America's sweetheart.

00:07I want to see her play somebody bad, like ruthless, like cutthroat.

00:11Wouldn't that be great?

00:12Yeah, that'd be great.

00:13I'm sure she wants to do that too.

00:14I bet she would.

00:15I just want to help in any way I can.

00:16Okay, so when Tracker first premiered last season, it ended up being the first new series

00:22to be number one in over 20 years since Survivor.

00:25So I know you love the show.

00:26I know you believed in the show.

00:28But when you go back and reflect, are you amazed at how well this show did so quickly?

00:33I think, yeah.

00:35And I still am.

00:36I still am.

00:37I pinch myself every day.

00:38You know, you put yourself out there, and this is the first thing that I've ever attached

00:42myself to that I sort of created from inception.

00:46You did, yeah.

00:47It's your baby.

00:48Yeah, typically I show up and I'm acting on a show, which is wonderful, but this one we

00:52built together.

00:53My friend and I kind of went and built this together.

00:56And we had this idea, and I thought, you know, I feel like there's a yearning for this kind

01:01of television.

01:02I feel like there's an audience.

01:03People want this.

01:04For sure.

01:05There's an appetite for it.

01:06And we were right, I guess.

01:07And it's just, it's always great when you see something that you want to do, and then

01:13other people go, oh, that's really good.

01:15And they agree with you.

01:16It's kind of nice.

01:17But to answer your question, I'm always amazed and always humbled by the fact that busy people

01:22tune in for an hour out of their busy lives to watch us.

01:25Hang on.

01:26Compelling storylines, Justin Hartley searching for people who are lost, family drama, sexual

01:32tension, and of course, all of this right here are just a few reasons more than 15 million

01:38watch Tracker, the CBS Sunday night drama, is broadcast TV's number one show.

01:45Did being on another juggernaut like This Is Us kind of help you have your sea legs

01:49early for how to navigate something like this?

01:52I think so.

01:53Yeah.

01:54And you know what's really cool about it?

01:55I've been able to actually share that experience with the crew.

01:58And I will tell them, I will say, stop for a second.

02:01This is rare air.

02:02This doesn't happen.

02:03Your brother hired me to find you.

02:04We need to go.

02:05What are some of the perks in starring in like a top TV series?

02:09Oh, God.

02:10Well, I get to talk to find people like you.

02:13I get to come here and spend time with you.

02:14Good answer, Justin.

02:15Yeah.

02:16Yeah.

02:17And, you know, one of the great things I think is walking around and having people come up

02:24to me and say, you know, I watch the show with my wife or my kids or we watch it as

02:28a family.

02:29You don't get a lot of time to do things as a family nowadays.

02:32Everyone's so busy.

02:33And to sit down and go, yeah, we all get we all sit together.

02:35We watch it.

02:36So we all enjoy it.

02:37And we talk about it.

02:38That is I mean, that's all I need.

02:40It's amazing.

02:41I'm not sure if you saw this, but your former YNR dad, Eric Braden, just recently really

02:46praised you and the show.

02:49And he said he compared you to John Wayne or Jimmy Stewart.

02:53Oh, well, when you hear that from him.

02:57Yeah.

02:58Well, look, that's that's the key, right?

03:00When you hear it from him.

03:01Yeah.

03:02He doesn't that man does not mince words.

03:03He's not afraid to say what's on his mind.

03:04He's a very, very calculated individual, very smart man.

03:09And to say things like that, he's not saying it.

03:12It's well, I mean, there's no one who's had swag on

03:17television longer than him.

03:18So he knows what he sees.

03:20Yeah.

03:21Yeah.

03:22No.

03:23He and I, we became pretty close on the show.

03:26And and he's he's a remarkable, remarkable, talented, remarkable man.

03:31And and to hear him say something like that is, you know, that's that's just.

03:36You're being humble because he said John Wayne and Jimmy Stewart.

03:39Those are big compares.

03:40Those are big shoes.

03:41Yeah.

03:42I.

03:43Yeah, that's crazy.

03:44Yeah.

03:45Yeah.

03:46But but thank you, Eric.

03:47That's crazy.

03:48I know what he means.

03:49He means he likes to show it.

03:50It's fine.

03:51Yeah.

03:52He said it with his chest.

03:53He did not just say he could have just said, I like the show.

03:55What he was saying was, you're right.

03:56I believe that Justin is a rare talent.

03:59You know, that generational type of talent.

04:01Well, that's a nice thing to say.

04:02That's a nice thing.

04:03So we'll try to try to, you know, try to measure up.

04:06He's got you, Victor.

04:07You know, we previously talked about the fact that we would like to see or this is

04:15us.

04:16Co-stars drop by the show.

04:17Yeah.

04:18Me, too.

04:19Where are we at?

04:20Who do you want me to come up with like a storyline?

04:23What can we do?

04:24You could have we talked to anyone we have.

04:27So we interestingly enough, John Huertas, who played Miguel on We Love We Love John

04:32played Miguel on This Is Us is actually directing the episode that we're filming right now.

04:37But as far as having, I would love to have, oh, gosh, it would just have to be the right

04:42part because, you know, you want to write something that is brilliant.

04:45That you present them with and they have to do it.

04:49But I also, you know, I would prefer to have them all on at once.

04:52But then it looks like it.

04:53Yeah.

04:54But that pulls that would pull you out of the show, I think.

04:56And you would just be watching This Is Us, which I'm not.

04:58I'm not.

04:59I don't want that.

05:00Right.

05:01But but we'll have to find out.

05:02Look, I mean, and they can all do so many different things.

05:04You have Chris Sullivan, Mandy Moore, Sterling, Milo, Chrissy.

05:07They can all do so many different things that, you know, it just has to be the right.

05:11Mandy's South America's sweetheart.

05:12I want to see her play somebody bad.

05:15Wouldn't that be great?

05:16Putthroat.

05:17Yeah, that'd be great.

05:18I'm sure she wants to do that, too.

05:19I bet she would.

05:20I'm sure.

05:21She would crush it.

05:22So you've seen stuff.

05:23Oh, brother.

05:24Stuff I've seen?

05:25Blow your hair back.

05:26So Jensen, we know Jensen is like your brother from another mother, you know, and he plays

05:30your television brother on this show.

05:32And he struck up a little bit of a flirtation with your former TV girlfriend, Fiona.

05:37Right.

05:38Right.

05:39OK.

05:40Do you have any chance of like a future romance between those two?

05:44Or...

05:45Maybe.

05:46You know, we have a we have a storyline going on right now that I think is really cool for

05:49the Renie character.

05:50So what is happening in Vancouver?

05:52Because Jensen isn't the only like former Supernatural star that's shooting a CBS show

05:58in Vancouver.

05:59I think Jared Padalecki and he's shooting Fire Country.

06:01He has an arc there.

06:02Do you ever envision a crossover between these shows, like with Supernatural as the core?

06:09I don't know.

06:11You know, I'm open to anything.

06:12It would just have to make sense, you know, if it was something that was that was a really

06:17compelling story.

06:18I, you know, certainly.

06:19We've talked a little bit about your daughter, Isabella, who's 20 now and in college.

06:24Do you ever whisper in her ear like you're a creative or don't ever do this business?

06:29Like what do you hope she pursues?

06:31Yeah.

06:32You know, honestly, I've been so lucky.

06:34She I don't know where she got all this because I certainly was not this kind of student,

06:39but she gets straight A's.

06:40She's a magnificent student.

06:42She's a great lady and a pleasure to be around and and whatever she wants to do, honestly.

06:49Is she a creative?

06:51She is.

06:52Massively.

06:53And I think whatever her heart desires.

06:54I think that's what she should go after.

06:55I really do.

06:56Has she ever said to you like, maybe dad?

06:57She changes her mind a lot.

06:58OK, got it.

06:59Well, she's 20.

07:00Exactly.

07:01So I'm like, whatever she wants to do today, she should do it.

07:02Whatever she wants to do tomorrow.

07:03I think that's what she should do for now.

07:05You know, that's how you figure it out.

07:06Yeah.

07:07She's at that age.

07:09And now she's got a new baby girl.

07:10What does she smell like?

07:12Look.

07:13Smell her head.

07:14What does she smell like?

07:15She smells like honey.

07:16Smells like honey.

07:20She's got her own big three now, right?

07:22Yeah.

07:23Which is kind of cool.

07:24Is there advice, though, in like raising a little girl?

07:27Hmm.

07:28Gosh.

07:29You know, it's it's life advice for everything.

07:32I guess patience.

07:33Yeah.

07:34Is that what she taught you?

07:35Is that what your daughter taught you?

07:36Yeah.

07:37Well, for me, and just speaking for myself, I tended to be a little bit, you know, I worry

07:41about her.

07:42I still do.

07:43Yeah.

07:44And you really do have to.

07:45And it's the hardest thing in the world to do as a dad, especially, I think, to a little

07:48girl.

07:49They look so fragile and they're like little girls, but they're women.

07:53They're little women is what they are.

07:54Yeah.

07:55And they're little powerhouses.

07:56And you just you really have to let go sometimes.

07:58And you start to realize when you do that, that whatever they're doing is way better

08:02than any advice you probably could have given them.

08:04Yeah.

08:05And you just you're just in awe when you watch it.

08:07What's the thing that she did like throughout life and maybe even still does today that

08:12just makes you melt?

08:14That just like.

08:15My daughter, Isabella?

08:17Yeah.

08:18Oh, I'll get I mean, I'll get texts out of nowhere that just I love you or or thank you

08:24for.

08:25You're going to make me cry.

08:27Thank you for, you know, whatever it might be from three days ago.

08:29Just how was your day?

08:31Are you working right now?

08:32I bet you're tired.

08:33I'm thinking about you.

08:35It's just incredible.

08:36She's so thoughtful.

08:37And you just like, she wraps you up all over the things, gets whatever she wants.

08:41And then I wait for the next text, which is like, she probably needs something.

08:45You know, it's a leader.

08:46Why do we always do that?

08:47Why do we always do that?

08:48And I was like, oh, she's so sweet.

08:50And I just wait, wait.

08:51And it's like, ding.

08:52I'm like, there it is.

08:53She needs.

08:54No, I'm kidding.

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