ForRon Cephas Jones, season 4 ofThis Is Uspresented a new challenge.

For Jones, playing an off-kilter version of the character sprung from Randall’s imagination proved difficult.

“[That] kept tripping me up.

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Why am I sitting there?

I usually sit here.'

No, it’s Randall’s thing,” he explains.

“It was a lot of touch and go until I could get the rhythm of it.”

This would reinforce Randall’s sense of being ignored and rejected.

“There’s no recognition, you won’t acknowledge he’s your kid,” Jones says.

“The energy he brought was so different from the energy I had felt before from Randall.

I had never met and saw Randall at that age,” he says.

Watch the video above for more from Jones.This Is Usairs on NBC.