Chrissy Metz Says ‘This Is Us’ Exec Asked If Her Role Was Plus-Size “Like Kate Winslet”

Chrissy Metzhad to endure some unnecessary Hollywood comparisons in her breakout role.

Anytime I think about Dan, it really makes me emotional, Metz said onThe Jamie Kern Lima Show.

First of all, hes absolutely brilliant in the most humble way, self-deprecating way.

Chrissy Metz in ‘This Is Us’.Ron Batzdorff/NBC/Courtesy Everett Collection

And hes just so in tune with emotion and the human condition.

It just comes through, I think, with everything he does.

And [Fogelman] was like, First of all, what are you saying?

Sterling K. Brown, Chrissy Metz and Justin Hartley onThis Is Us.NBC