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Quantum Leap: Dr. Ben Rejects Marriage Proposal
Justin Hartley is making the leap from 1 NBC bid to another.
The This Is Us alum impermanent stars arsenic bounty huntsman Jake connected the Oct. 10 occurrence of Quantum Leap and volition squad up with Dr. Ben Song (Raymond Lee) and hologram helper Addison Augustine (Caitlin Bassett) connected their latest clip question adventure. Not lone was the relation amusive for the histrion arsenic a instrumentality of the archetypal '80s series, but besides due to the fact that helium got to impermanent star alongside his wife, histrion Sofia Pernas.
"It was the implicit best," Hartley said successful an exclusive interrogation with E! News. "I don't cognize if I've ever laughed arsenic overmuch connected a set. We had specified a bully time."
The occurrence follows Ben arsenic helium travels backmost to the '80s and leaps into the assemblage of Jake's bounty huntsman woman Eva. The pair's newest people is Pernas' character, Tammy Jean, who Hartley teased "might beryllium presenting arsenic idiosyncratic that she's not."
"Then there's a full large twist that happens," the 45-year-old continued, "and that's each alongside Jake, my character, trying to fig retired this full connection thing. He proposes to his fiancée."
But with Ben wrong Eva's body, Jake's connection doesn't precisely spell to plan, the aftermath of which you tin ticker successful the sneak peek clip above.
Unlike his character, Hartley's emotion beingness is moving overmuch much smoothly. The histrion shared all astir however helium and Pernas'—who tied the knot successful May 2021—off-screen chemistry lent itself to moving unneurotic connected set.
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"Sofia's got a truly large consciousness of humor," Hartley told E! News. "There were a mates of moments wherever she took immoderate liberties, she did a small adlibbing, which allowed maine to bash a small adlibbing. And the characters became much and much annoyed with each other, specifically Jake becoming annoyed with her, not truly the different mode around, and we had a batch of amusive with that."
Improvising connected Quantum Leap is thing Hartley said not a batch of impermanent stars get the chance to do. But connected This Is Us, it was thing that was encouraged.
"The crushed you were present is due to the fact that you're gonna bring thing for america to the show, truthful please, 'Tell us, what bash you privation to do?'" helium shared. "'Let's go. We'll play with you.' We loved that, and Quantum Leap has the aforesaid benignant of vibe."
While the thought of leaping into different person similar Ben does connected the show doesn't dependable appealing to the Hartley, determination is 1 lawsuit successful past the star would emotion to question backmost to.
"The time the [Chicago] Bulls won their past title with Michael Jordan," helium revealed. "I'd beryllium sitting courtside and I would ticker that game, and I would emotion to person been determination for that. That would person been amazing, his past championship. And past 'boom,' close backmost to me."
Quantum Leap airs Mondays astatine 10 p.m. connected NBC.
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