Why Kate From This Is Us Looks So Familiar

In 2009, Metz starred in another watch-from-home movie called Solving Charlie. According to Savannah Now, a Georgia-based newspaper and website, the film was originally set to become a television show for ABC, with the pilot filmed in downtown Savannah, Georgia. 

Jay Self, the director of Tourism and Film Services in Savannah explained that, despite the 80-person film crew embarking on the town, there was no guarantee that ABC would pick up the pilot or that it would ever air at all. As it turns out, the drama wasn't green-lit as a show, but it got the okay to proceed as a TV movie. Although the actors were relatively unknown, the director, Gregory Hoblit, had already won nine Emmys and directed NYPD Blue, Hill Street Blues, and L.A. Law, so many were optimistic. 

Sadly, Solving Charlie wasn't the big break for any of the actors in the pilot-turned-film, including Metz who, according to IMDb, played the role of Maggie Harmon.