United Kingdom, June 9 -- Sterling K. Brown has a "thing" with "older Black women".

The This Is Us actor - who has sons Andrew, 13, and Amare, nine, with wife Ryan Michelle Bathe - acknowledged his popularity within a "certain set" after his friend Natasha Rothwell joked her parents' marriage almost ended in divorce because of her mom's crush on him.

In conversation for Variety's Actors on Actors series, Natasha said: "You're so charismatic and easy to watch. You almost broke up my parents' marriage. [My mother] loved Army Wives.

"I thought, 'If [Sterling] comes up here and ruins 47 years of marriage, I'm going to be upset.' "

Sterling noted: "I'm big with a certain set. The older Black women and me, we got a thing."

The 49-year-old ...