Justin Hartley has been profitable over the hearts of tv watchers for many years now. Whereas followers of the actor all have their favourite roles — mine occurs to be his work as Kevin Pearson in NBC’s Thursday evening hit sequence This Is Us — Hartley additionally has one second in his profession that he feels most pleased with, and it maybe shockingly has nothing to do together with his iconic Inexperienced Arrow swimsuit he wore on the DC super-drama Smallville.
Hartley shared a listing of particulars with Us Weekly that even his greatest followers don’t learn about him. In the midst of these factoids, the Tracker star shared what he feels is the proudest second of his profession, and it simply so occurs to tie on to the CBS drama that returned to the 2025 TV schedule in February.
The proudest second of my profession is constructing Tracker from the bottom up with [director] Ken Olin and having folks consider in us sufficient to provide us cash to shoot it. Seeing the response from the those who watch it, that adore it, that’s it. You by no means suppose you’re gonna be capable of do one thing like that, nevertheless it’s been exceptional.
The motion drama sequence is tailored for the display from the 2019 novel The By no means Recreation, and follows Colter Shaw (Hartley), an skilled survivalist who helps regulation enforcement and personal residents find lacking folks and remedy crimes. The primary season was met with robust viewership, scoring the printed drama an early Season 2 renewal, and as of February 2025, it was picked up for a 3rd season.
Hartley pulls double obligation on the present, taking part in the lead function and likewise serving as one of many high govt producers alongside showrunner Ken Olin. It marks the primary time the This Is Us star has produced tv since getting his performing begin within the early aughts.
It’s no shock, then, that Hartley’s first foray into tv producing ranks leagues above his days sporting the Inexperienced Arrow swimsuit in Smallville. Although, I’m positive followers of the superhero drama would disagree. However don’t fear, Hartley did love his time taking part in the superhero.
In reality, the Tracker star mentioned in the identical interview that he’d like to play a superhero once more, possibly even an older model of Inexperienced Arrow. If DC doesn’t take him up on the provide, I’m positive the ever-expanding MCU can be glad to welcome the Daytime Emmy nominee. Hopefully, we can’t be ready lengthy to see him in an upcoming superhero film.
For now, Hartley is stored busy with Tracker’s grueling schedule that has your entire crew filming one high-action episode each week. One thing even he thinks shouldn’t be doable however is clearly working for the present that managed to develop its rankings on the finish of 2024, not like many different CBS exhibits.
You possibly can catch new episodes of Tracker each Sunday at 8 p.m. ET on CBS. The sequence can also be out there to stream with an lively Paramount+ subscription.