… it’s going to be “very satisfying.”
What youdon’tknow, though, is whom Kevin will end up with.
Last week’s episode,“The Guitar Man,” a.k.a.
Caitlin Thompson, Justin Hartley, and Alexandra Breckenridge on ‘This Is Us’.Ron Batzdorff/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal (3)
But what about that other kind of passion?
It may be that his role is more of friendly support as she seeks treatment for her suicidal ideation.
(Remember earlier this season when she told him that he was “chasing the wrong blonde?”
And bear in mind, both Sophie and Madison are blonde.)
“I think so,” Hartley tells EW.
“But I also think that, you know… [laughs] this is Kevin.
Which way the wind blows, you never know.
Something could happen and all of the sudden he’s like, ‘Wait a minute, wait a minute.
You are the one for me!’
So he’s struggling with that.
But I think he’s settling down into that idea that they’re friends.
And he’s comfortable with that.
Did he have a rooting interest in whom Kevin ends up with?
“Yeah, I did,” he says.
“Look, I’ve been so lucky, man.
I’ve been gifted with all these really great scene partners.
So whichever way it turned out, I was like, ‘Okay, great.’
I just cared about the story, that it made sense, you know?”
“I don’t think everyone’s going to be happy necessarily,” he shares.
“Every single person is not going to be like, ‘That’s what I wanted.’
Some people will want something different.
He’ll figure it out.
What’s interesting is there’s a significant group of people that want him to be with someone else.
And I understand that, too.”
It also sounds like you may not be the only one shouting at your TV.
Quips Hartley: “Sometimes I just sit there and I go, ‘Dude, just be alone.
Just be alone for a while, man!'”
Hartley had a lot more to say about Kevin and his decisions in the first trilogy episode.
31 and was directed by Hartley.
