Justin Hartley on This Is Us' return episode: "I’ve been in that situation before"

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Hartley discussed the season's 13th episode, which was delayed to the coronavirus surge in Los Angeles County. "I think there’s a bigger reason, and I think it would affect him for the rest of his life," he says. Meanwhile, executive producer Isaac Aptaker said of last night's episode: "We wanted to throw him into a situation where he really was tested and forced to become a hero in the most literal sense of the word, in a way that we've seen Jack be a hero before."