Sofia Pernas Says She Was 'Very Honest' With Husband Justin Hartley About Not WatchingThis Is Us(Exclusive)

Mar. 15, 2025

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ForSofia Pernas, this is… the truth!

While speaking to PEOPLE about her upcoming guest appearance on husbandJustin Hartley’s new CBS dramaTracker,Pernas, 34, admitted that his six-season stint onThis Is Uswas just too much for her to take in.

“I was very honest with him. I saw the first season, and I don’t know how people binge-watch that show,” she says. “I don’t really like to emote much, so I couldn’t do it.”

“It pulled too many heartstrings for me. [Creator] Dan Fogelman is too good and the cast is too good. I couldn’t,” she says. “I was just like, “I need something [else]… I can’t cry every day. I can’t!”

Sterling K. Brown as Randall, Chrissy Metz as Kate, Justin Hartley as Kevin in This Is Us.Ron Batzdorff/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty

Now, a year and a half after wrapping the beloved NBC series, Hartley is enjoying a new role as Colter Shaw onTracker, where he plays a “rewardist” who traverses the country looking for people to help (and, as the job title begs, rewards to collect).

Pernas’ appearance on the show will see her character Billie go head-to-head with Shaw, but in reality, Pernas says working with her husband again (the two also co-starred onNBC’sQuantum Leap) is like “riding a bike.”

Sofia Pernas and Justin Hartley attend the 39th annual PaleyFest LA - “This Is Us” on April 02, 2022 in Hollywood, California.Rodin Eckenroth/FilmMagic

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“We get asked all the time, like, ‘You guys don’t take a break from each other?’ I’m like, ‘I love him.’ Thankfully that’s reciprocated because how often do you get that?" she says. “I’m just really thankful that we both feel that way about each other and that we’re able to take that to work and not need extended breaks from each other because we’re so absorbed.”

The pair originally met while they were costars onThe Young and the Restlessafter Pernas joined the soap opera in 2015 — though, she admits she doesn’t remember their first meeting.

“When Justin’s in work mode, and I think anyone who’s ever worked with him would say this, he is like a Terminator. He has one goal, he has one focus. Also, he’s a man, so he doesn’t multitask very well,” she quips of being on set with her now-husband. “I mean, we were strictly, strictly co-stars. I might have had one, two conversations with him in the middle of some scenes because he wasn’t really a big scene partner of mine.”

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“I always say it’s so cliche for everyone who’s with someone to obviously be obligated to say, ‘This is my best friend.’ But he truly, truly is,” she says. “We get along in so many ways, we’re so, so compatible, and even when we were dating early on, it was just, I was like, ‘Oh, you like that? Oh, that’s weird. I feel like I’m dating myself!”

Trackerairs Sundays at 9 p.m. ET on CBS.

source: people.com