The actress speaks to The Hollywood Reporter about her and Justin Hartley's long-awaited love story and how a production conflict amid the pandemic nearly complicated her return.
But as Tuesday’s heartfelt hour eventually revealed, the woman in question turned out to be the fan-favorite choice: Kevin’s on-and-off love but forever soul mate, Sophie. And it took a winding road before arriving there.of watching the final season, along with viewers, and seeing the Pearson sibling grow into the man her character always hoped he could be — now, in his mid-40s. “It took him years,” she says.
Kevin’s adult romances have been nothing but fraught. Most recently, after calling off his wedding to Madison , the mother of their twins, flash-forwards in recent episodes have shown Kevin falling back into his serial dating ways, particularly after an ill-timed attempt to woo Cassidy falls flat. As he explains to his childhood sweetheart, Sophie, in “The Night Before the Wedding,” any relationship attempts after her have failed.
call, appearing in some capacity in all six seasons. The first season saw them reconnecting as adults — more than a decade after young Kevin cheated on Sophie to end their marriage. But the pair broke up, again, in season two.
Alexandra Breckinridge says of her return, “it’s kind of a once-in-a-lifetime set to work on and the fact that the show is so successful is just the cherry on it, so to speak.”