Justin Hartley is teasing what fans can expect from his “Tracker” character, Colter Shaw, in Season 3 of his hit CBS series.
“I know we’ll get to the nitty-gritty of why my mother hired this guy,” he told Variety Wednesday at the premiere of his new movie “Bride Hard” in Los Angeles. “Was she protecting her kids? Was an affair happening? Was the government involved? Was it strictly just my mother? Why did she hide that from us for so long? Why did she lead me to believe that it was my brother who was involved when he wasn’t? It seems like this divide-and-conquer thing that she’s doing. It was just an odd thing to do with your children. There’s some deep psychosis there. We’ll unpack that.”
Hartley said he admires the mysterious element of Colter.
“One of the things I love about our show is it seems like every time we answer a question, there are five more questions,” he said. “It’s almost like he’s getting deeper and deeper. I really enjoy that about our show.”
The new season of “Tracker” is set to start shooting in July.
Sherry Cola, Anna Chlumsky, Anna Camp, Rebel Wilson, Justin Hartley, Gigi Zumbado at the “Bride Hard” Los Angeles Premiere held at the DGA Theater on June 18, 2025 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Michael Buckner/Variety via Getty Images)
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In “Bride Hard,” Hartley stars opposite Rebel Wilson — they previously worked alongside each other in 2022’s “Senior Year” — as the groom’s best man (Chris) who assists a group of mercenaries that crash the wedding. Wilson plays a secret agent (Sam) whose cover is blown when she has to take on the mercenaries. Rounding out the cast are Anna Camp, Anna Chlumsky, Da’Vine Joy Randolph, Gigi Zumbado and Stephen Dorff.
For Hartley, portraying one of the bad guys who sets out to help the mercenaries is what interested him about the role. “I thought it was so interesting because he’s such a worm and a buffoon,” he said. “To play something that I’ve never intentionally done before was fun for me.”
Hartley praised Wilson for her stunt work throughout the film, particularly for the fight scene the two co-stars shared in the movie. “You don’t get a lot of time to rehearse that,” he said. “She did a lot of that choreography. She did all of the hard work. I was trying to get out of the way or not quite get out of the way. She did a good job of not cracking me, but she never did.”
For the other cast members, watching Wilson play an action hero was also a highlight for them.
“I love it,” Sherry Cola, who played Wilson’s handler, said. “Women can do it all. We can save the day. We can prove people wrong and break stereotypes. With Rebel, she’s built such an exceptional career. I’m so excited for people to see her in this way.”
The film’s director, Simon West, also complimented Wilson’s fight and stunt performances: “She threw herself into it. She’s a tough girl, and she wanted to do the action as much as she could herself. But she has her own style. It’s kind of John Wick on steroids. She is not a quiet fighter. She’s a crazy fighter, and she seemed to love it.”
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