Three months. COVID delays. A 'stupid pool.' MiloVentimiglia, TheMandyMoore and JustinHartley explain how they pulled off their interwoven episodes of ThisIsUs
NBC’s ‘This Is Us’ is renowned for its twists and turns, uncommon in a family drama. Creator Dan Fogelman and the stars explain how they make the mysteries.
The Rebecca monologue at Thanksgiving sets up the rest of this season, lighting a fire under the Big Three. With these episodes, we see how Kevin, Kate and Randall are facing a new crossroads in their lives and confronting the big and small moves they need to make.
Initially, the way it was written was that [Kate] wakes up the next morning and has that conversation with [Toby] where he’s like, “You guys have to move to San Fran. That’s just the way it is.” And she’s like, “I need some air.” And she goes out, and it was scripted that she goes to take this walk and clear her head and old Toby meets her there and she’s like, “I actually have to do this by myself. I have to say goodbye to you.” But because of all of this happening, we didn’t get to shoot that.
Yasu [Tanida], our [director of photography], planned out — like she’s going to cross the horizon and all this fun stuff that we didn’t get to do because it became “How can we just assemble this scene to make sense?” And we figured it out. It was a reminder of like, “Oh, yeah, this s— happens.”I think maybe Rebecca will sort of absorb Kate’s situation and the changes and choices she’s making in her life and feel proud.
We’re starting to see loops close. These open-ended questions are kind of starting to close as we’re in Season 6. And it’s a very whole feeling.