Sofia Pernas is opening up about her love story. ET’s Nischelle Turner spoke to the actress about her first impression of her now-husband, Justin Hartley, and the way they turned their friendship into romance.
“My first and solely impression was, God, that man is available in and leaves as quickly because the bell goes ding,” Pernas informed ET of Hartley, who she met on the set of The Younger and the Stressed. “… Generally he’d do as much as 65 pages a day. He was simply ripping items off, throwing them within the trash, as quickly as he’d be performed with the scene. It was virtually like pop smoke after which he would go away. It was unimaginable.”
On the time, Hartley was married to Chrishell Stause, so it was only a friendship between the This Is Us star and the actress. Hartley and Stause called it quits in 2019, although, at which period Pernas “was going by a very dangerous dry spell.”
Pernas ultimately determined to “begin throwing out feelers” for a possible love match, and one bloomed when she messaged Hartley in the beginning of 2020.
“I bear in mind I texted him ‘joyful flip of the last decade’ in January,” she stated. “That was it.”
For a time, the duo acted as “pen friends,” Pernas stated, however, when the COVID-19 pandemic started in March 2020, that every one modified.
“We did a dip within the pool with quarantine. I sort of by no means left him and we got married a 12 months later,” she stated.
Whereas Pernas famous that it is “actually cliche once you’re in a relationship to say that that individual is sort of obligated to be your finest pal,” she insisted that Hartley “actually is” that for her.
“It’s totally uncommon once you simply appear to be on the identical web page with every part,” she stated. “In fact there’s rising pains with sure issues, however when you already know, you already know. When you may have the correct individual as your companion you simply kind of glide by the rising pains.”
“It felt so improper ‘trigger so many individuals have been going by arduous, robust time throughout COVID and I used to be sort of having the very best time of my life, simply falling in love,” Pernas added. “… For us, it was working and dealing and dealing. [It was] so seamless and simple that it was only a no brainer.”
Now, the couple is again to sharing the display screen on Hartley’s present, Tracker. Pernas stated that working alongside her husband once more “was enjoyable,” earlier than describing the character she performs on the CBS sequence.
“She’s a fellow reward seeker. It is kind of a type of issues the place they do the identical job, however they only have a special bag of tips,” she teased. “He does a really particular factor. She does a really particular factor. They used to work collectively again within the day.”
“I sort of was doing a job I wasn’t actually into after I met him and discovered what he was doing and sort of received entangled in that world. After which I, after all, received a chip on my shoulder and I am like, ‘I can do that too,'” Pernas added. “I sort of exit by myself department, if you’ll, and there was a troublesome pace bump of their previous after I did that.”
Throughout their time working collectively, Pernas revealed that she and Hartley received to boost the script a bit.
“It wasn’t actually scripted for us to kiss,” she stated. “We performed with some moments the place felt was like, do they kiss on this second? Simply because there’s a lot historical past, and there was a lot rigidity, and there was a sure life-threatening occasion that occurred proper earlier than, so it is all of this pent up stress.”
As for if she’ll return to the present, Pernas stated that her look “opened the door a sliver” for a potential continuation of her storyline.
“I like her. She’s such a cool character. She’s attempting to cover a lot ‘trigger, clearly, she’s so weak,” she stated of her character. “I believe that is what’s so cool, watching each of them play. He is clearly so confident and commanding and highly effective when he walks right into a room, however I believe, due to their historical past and every part going ahead, it is good to see that peep gap within the vulnerability.”
Pernas’ episode of Tracker will air March 24 on CBS.
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