'This Is Us' star Justin Hartley thought he'd be cast as Jack Pearson

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00:00my buddy calls me he's like hey did you read this uh dan fogelman uh pilot i think do you know him

00:05i said yeah i know him and he goes how long have you known him and i i said no no i i know of him

00:09i don't i don't know him and he goes like oh really because i think he might have written you

00:14and i was like what what do you mean and i was aware that he had this baseball

00:19pilot that he was doing yeah yep and he goes i'm gonna send this thing to you he sends me this

00:24script and i start reading it right away and i i got to like the first second third page and i was

00:29like oh my god he wrote me like how is he doing this i'm jack pierce it's unbelievable it's me i'm

00:37like i'm exactly i'm like i do everything for my daughter and i'm it's amazing i you know this is

00:43incredible like if i had this i mean this is holy cow and it's a great character and this is like

00:49it's going to be a beloved character look at that when he's doing this all over he's under everything

00:54he's doing is perfect holy i'm kevin i'm not jack at all oh