(ex-Adam, Y&R, 2014-16; ex-Fox, PASSIONS, 2002-06)
Soap Opera Digest: First of all, congratulations on your second consecutive Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series for THIS IS US.
Justin Hartley: Thank you! I’m feeling good. It’s pretty incredible. I remember last year, they put us at the front of the room and I thought, “Well, if they put us at the front, we might have a shot at this.” This year, when we got to the theater, we were at table 41 all the way in the back and I was like, “Well, it’s a good show anyway [laughs].”
Digest: How does it feel to be acknowledged by your peers again?
Hartley: It feels great. It’s the best. There were actors in that room I’ve looked up to for years and years, younger than me and older than me, and to know they’re clicking a box [for us], it’s overwhelming.
Digest: Speculation is those awards are heavy.
Hartley: They’re 12½ pounds. My wife [Chrishell] looked it up. She’s like, “This is like 40 pounds!” and I was like, “It’s not 40 pounds, baby,” but it is 12½.
Digest: Let’s talk about Kevin on THIS IS US this season. Finding out his uncle is alive and his father lied to him about it really threw him for a loop.
Hartley: That revelation brings up a lot of things for Kevin. A recurring theme in his life is that he feels things in a different way, and he thinks he can overcome without taking all of the necessary steps. Bringing his uncle back into his life and realizing the gravity of all that, and what it meant for his dad to lie to him about this man being dead, it opens up a whole can of worms for Kevin, and he starts to realize that he’s not as mentally sound as he thought he was.
This story is from the March 18, 2019 edition of Soap Opera Digest.
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