And the trip down memory lane appears to have unlocked some mixed feelings.
“I saw his audition for the first time,” she revealed. “I called him and I was like, ‘I feel inappropriate because you’re so cute and you’re, like, a 26-year-old. I don’t know who that child is.’”
“But it was amazing just to watch,” she added. “Everyone is so good on that show. The show is so good.”
In the meantime, fans of the actress can catch her as Officer Traci Harmon in On Call, which she prepared for by shadowing actual law enforcement.
“The police officer that I was with was taking down a report,” Troian recalled, “and the person she was talking to was giving her the answer, and then she would turn and continue her answer to me. There was this moment where I was like, ‘Oh, she’s looking to me for help.’ And I felt that coming from her, [which] a police officer must feel every day.’”