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Justin Hartley has come a little bit of a approach since portraying Kevin Pearson on the hit drama, “This Is Us.”
He’s now starring as Colter Shaw on the brand new CBS collection “Tracker.” The character is a talented survivalist who makes his residing incomes rewards for monitoring down people.
Hartley joked to CNN that the function requires “much more stretching.”
“I undoubtedly get my steps in additional on this present, I might say, than I did on ‘This Is Us,’” he mentioned, laughing. “Each character is completely different, but additionally the prep, a few of the prep is identical. There’s actually bodily prep, however the emotional prep can be one thing that I spend numerous time on.”
Happily, he had loads of supply materials to seek advice from with the intention to put together.
The character is predicated on the protagonist in a e book collection by bestselling creator Jeffery Deaver.
Hartley mentioned he and “Thirtysomething” star Ken Olin, who together with him function govt producers on the present, discovered the character through Deaver’s e book, “The By no means Recreation.”
He and Olin, who had additionally served as a producer on “This Is Us,” went to go to Deaver to speak about bringing the character to the small display.
“We talked to [Deaver] about what our plans have been, and he bought excited and we went to our studio and this was all proper earlier than the final season of ‘This Is Us’ was even filmed,” Hartley mentioned. “We bought them excited after which we ended up discovering an amazing community in CBS and it’s simply type of all labored out. And right here we’re a pair years later and able to go lastly.”
Hartley discovered intrigue in why Shaw turned a survivalist.
“He’s undoubtedly a novel character. I imply, a man who learns all of those expertise are type of uncommon. Individuals don’t essentially know do all of these things,” Hartley mentioned. “Most individuals don’t. Given his childhood, his very tough upbringing…he learns all of those expertise and simply the concept that he would develop up and as an grownup use all of these expertise to assist different individuals, I believe may be very simple to root for.”
He doesn’t view Shaw as an “anti-hero,” regardless of the very fact “he would possibly bend the regulation” occassionally.
“He would possibly work exterior the regulation, however simply as a way to get justice or to assist somebody in want. He’s not an intentional rule breaker,” Hartley mentioned. ”He does all of it. He’s a businessman.”
“Tracker” is scheduled to premiere Sunday following Tremendous Bowl LVIII on CBS.