That is her new life.
Chrissy Metz, finest recognized for taking part in Kate Pearson on the NBC drama “This Is Us,” just lately ditched Hollywood after 21 years.
“I moved to Nashville,” the actress, 44, revealed to Individuals in an interview revealed Friday.
“I was in LA for 21 years, but my family is in Florida, where I’m from, and during the pandemic, I could drive to them from here. It’s just a better quality of life here,” Metz defined. “Everything is 15 minutes away, and it’s just so much less stress.”
“There’s a lot going on,” she continued. “There’s obviously great music, great food. I grew up in the South, so I’m used to sort of that hospitality — it feels more communal here. In LA it was always like, ‘Oh, you have an audition? What’s it for? Oh, you have an audition? What for?’ It was all very dog eat dog!”
Metz has been protecting busy since starring on the hit drama “This Is Us” for six seasons from 2016 to 2022. When not performing, she additionally has dabbled in music. In July 2021, she even carried out at Nashville’s famed Bluebird Cafe. Her debut nation album, “Prayed for This Day,” was launched in 2023.
Much more, the “American Horror Story” alum just lately wrote a brand new kids’s ebook, “When I Talk to God, I Talk About Feelings.” It hits bookstores on April 8.
The brand new story is a follow-up to Metz’s 2023 ebook, “Once I Speak to God, I Speak About You.“
“I taught preschool for five years, and ultimately kids always want to talk about their feelings,” the Golden Globe nominee informed the outlet of her inspiration. “They want to feel seen and heard.”
“I think we’re coming into this age of mental health awareness and just talking about our feelings in real ways,” Metz defined. “And so I wondered, could we preemptively strike and get the kids to name their feelings and then express their feelings and have the confidence to even do that?”
Regardless of leaving Hollywood, the star would like to reunite together with her “This Is Us” forged. The ensemble additionally included her TV dad and mom Mandy Moore and Milo Ventimiglia, on-screen siblings Sterling Ok. Brown and Justin Hartley and love curiosity Chris Sullivan.
“I would [be down],” Metz informed Leisure Tonight in 2023. “I’m like, where would it be set?”
“I mean, anything’s possible,” she went on. “I think everybody wants to see it. Every single time I see someone they’re like, ‘We wish the show was still on.’ I’m like, ‘Me too.’ You know, job security. But I do love the show and everybody involved.”
“I think, like, in 10 years and we’re all, like, 50-ish, I think that will be cute, a little reunion,” she stated. “Fingers crossed. It takes a while to make art, y’all! One can only dream!”
Metz is pushing for the Pearson’s reunion to happen in Nashville.
“There’s so much talent,” she gushed in regards to the metropolis. “In the airport, literally every single person is talented, whether they’re playing an instrument or they’re singing their face off at [Blake Shelton’s] Ole Red. Everybody’s talented here. And everybody’s a songwriter. It’s everywhere. It’s all the time. It’s so exciting. You’re around it all the time. And I feel like it’s a very communal city, which is nice. People like working together.”
Within the meantime, followers of the Dan Fogelman-created sequence can tune into the “This Was Us” rewatch podcast hosted by Moore, 40, Brown, 48, and Sullivan, 44.
Lately, Ventimiglia, 47, is headed to Netflix to star reverse Sam Worthington within the restricted sequence “I Will Find You.”
The drama is predicated on Harlan Coben’s novel of the identical identify and also will function Britt Decrease, Erin Richards and Logan Browning. The information comes on the heels of Ventimiglia’s home burning down within the Palisades Fires.
“You start thinking about all the memories and the different parts of the house and whatnot and then you see your neighbors’ houses and everything around and your heart just breaks,” he informed CBS Night Information on the time.
Moore was additionally personally affected as she misplaced her house within the Easton Hearth. She and her husband, Dawes frontman Taylor Goldsmith, briefly moved in with Hilary Duff and her husband, Matthew Koma, within the aftermath.
Hartley, for his half, now stars on CBS’ “Tracker” whereas Brown leads the Hulu sci-fi sequence “Paradise,” which was simply renewed for Season 2.
