Viewers would say an additional “what?”
His brother, Randall (Sterling K. Brown), was also having trouble focusing on his special day.
An empathetic Randall decided to set the guy up at a shelter, only to get stood up.
Mandy Moore on ‘This Is Us’.Ron Batzdorff/NBC
Which pieces were the trickiest and most important for you to set up for what’s to come?
Rebecca and her Alzheimer’s?
It’s not a place we’re going to live in constantly.
So when we do it, we want to do it right.
We want the audience to feel the frustration she’s feeling and the fear that she’s feeling.
The episode transports the viewer literally inside her brain fog, as she struggles to retrieve a specific word.
Yeah, it’s hard.
And like any disease, there’s no “one size fits all.”
We knew exactly what we were going to do big-picture for Rebecca this season from a very early stage.
Are timetables and decision around her care getting moved up?
You have to change the marketing of the final season to “Who will ascend the Pearson throne?”
So, what kind of emotional toll will take on Miguel [Jon Huertas]?
Few have been more supportive of the Pearsons and put in more invisible work than Miguel.
And it’s definitely a place we’re heading.
Jon Huertas is going to get a real showcase this year.
Your father’s best friend is suddenly dating your mother.
Or for the people who have always wondered about the character and haven’t let him in yet.
Kevin reluctantly decides to take theMannyreboot.
Will viewers see the reboot in action and isMorris Chestnutgoing to be involved beyond a billboard?
You know, it’s funny.
That’s why they’re going to Kevin."
[Laughs] But it just felt, with this much time having passed, maybe a little confusing.
Yeah, we’re going to seeThe Mannyin action in various ways.
And he carries so much existential crisis, and he does this season as always.
But it’s always fun to put him in situations that are also funny.
It’s the show on which he learned to walk and walk off.
Kevin for five seasons has been teetering on coming of age and then stepping in it.
Or maybe he could have it both.
He wanted to be close to his kids, so he moves into Madison’s garage temporarily.
That’s really just an idiotic decision.
Kevin does things quickly and then pays the price of the ramifications.
He falls in love quickly.
He breaks up with people quickly.
But we’ll see.
But we’re beginning to arc out Randall’s political and career story line.
So it’s a long play.
He’s not going to just give one speech and then suddenly become the next great thing.
The road to divorce can be paved with very good intentions on both sides.
That’s what we’re trying to say.
It’s going to be a slow build between Toby and Kate.
We have the ability to play with time in the show.
Relationships that don’t work out can be relationships that lead to other beautiful things.
We are starting to see that Phillip [Chris Geere] has demons and is full of self-loathing.
What traumas might lie in his past?
The waiter or waitress who was waiting on us becomes our wife or our husband.
I would love to get Crying Mailman back!
I remember seeing that scene for the first time and being like, “Crying Mailman is wonderful!
That’s such a good actor!”
Meanwhile Nicky, who winds up married in the future, is off to see Sally.
Well, it’s everything.
We’re going to name this second episode “One Giant Leap,” which I really like.
So yeah, the end of this episode is really important.
Because we don’t stop becoming people when we get bad news and bad diagnoses.
It’s not real."
How much of this is who the person is?
How much of this is parenting?
I think we’re often the people we are from go.
Then also how we parent makes a huge impact on who that person becomes.
Kevin’s feelings are really complicated and really intensely internal.
Our cast through six years has never asked out of anything.
I don’t want to do it."
But he never said a peep.
How would you tease next week’s episode?
It’s one of our specialized episodes.
I love writing about love and people falling in love.
It’s such a unique experience.
That episode also features a peek into the future.
