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0:00 | I feel like the idea that our show

0:05 | brings so much joy and levity to the

0:08 | table is something that's under

0:09 | appreciated and underreported in a way I

0:13 | I think people tend to think of our show

0:14 | sort of the emotional roller coaster

0:16 | that we all go on and that is very much

0:19 | a part of who we are but I just don't

0:22 | think you can discount the other side of

0:24 | the coin it's it's very much what the

0:26 | dynamic that sort of makes our show work

0:27 | and again I just don't think Dan and our

0:30 | writers get enough credit for that and

0:32 | you know you look at characters whether

0:34 | it's like Sully your sterling or Justin

0:36 | like they all are you know their

0:39 | characters are funny and best like Susan

0:43 | these are these are people and

0:45 | characters that like constantly bring I

0:47 | think the funny to the table and the

0:49 | sarcastic and that's just as much like

0:52 | you know a part of life is that anything

0:55 | else like it's it's sort of what makes

0:58 | everything you makes the world go round

0:59 | so I'm I'm happy that the this

1:03 | particular episode that premiere episode

1:04 | sort of nods to that maybe more than

1:08 | what people are expecting from our show

1:12 | I mean I think when you're lucky enough

1:16 | to be on a show like this that sort of

1:18 | has found an audience like we have to be

1:23 | able to you know have that direct

1:25 | connection to an audience and for them

1:27 | to sort of see themselves in these

1:29 | characters really speaks to the

1:31 | universal appeal of what the magic that

1:34 | I guess we've sort of found it's

1:37 | incredible I mean I feel the same way I

1:39 | read the script and obviously I feel

1:41 | like I really most to Rebecca because

1:43 | it's like wearing a comfortable pair of

1:44 | shoes at this point but I can see myself

1:47 | in bits and pieces of every single

1:48 | character and again I think that just

1:50 | speaks to how elevated the writing is

1:53 | but also how grounded it is at the same

1:55 | time

1:58 | oh my gosh it's crazy I've never done

2:02 | television really before the show

2:05 | certainly not 54 episodes of television

2:07 | so it's hard to like think back to the

2:12 | last three plus years of my life and a

2:16 | show like this that that is so

2:18 | emotionally charged and rich and I mean

2:23 | I it boggles my mind to think back to

2:27 | some of the stuff we did in season one I

2:29 | mean I guess I my heart sort of goes

2:32 | back to season one because it was such a

2:33 | new experience for us and and navigating

2:37 | like the inroads of these characters and

2:39 | figuring out for me at least like it's

2:42 | hard to pinpoint one exact moment

2:44 | because you know I have this delicious

2:46 | challenge and the the greatest challenge

2:48 | probably of my professional life of

2:50 | portraying this woman from her mid-20s

2:52 | to her now he found out last season like

2:55 | mid-80s so that's a lot of life and it

2:59 | was certainly overwhelming initially but

3:02 | I feel like I really found my groove in

3:05 | the middle of season one of like you

3:07 | know not overwhelming myself with having

3:10 | to know every single answer to the story

3:12 | of this woman's life you sort of just

3:15 | take the information as it comes to you

3:18 | and sort of piecemeal it together but

3:21 | but now I feel like I have this really

3:24 | complex understanding of who she is and

3:27 | I have this like 360 degree view of

3:29 | everything

3:34 | man Dean I talk a lot about where Jack

3:39 | and Rebecca happened to be and and how

3:43 | much we look forward to the simpler

3:46 | happier times you know it's not Jack and

3:51 | war it's not Jack and Rebecca dealing

3:53 | with alcoholism or even Jack's death

3:57 | it's it's the new love it's discovery

3:59 | it's it's also beyond that it's the

4:01 | moments when you're really figuring out

4:05 | if it's going to work you know taking

4:09 | these two individuals that that deeply

4:11 | care about each other but figuring out

4:12 | it's like well does this fit does your

4:15 | world and my world fit outside of you

4:18 | know the the vacuum that maybe we occupy

4:20 | when it's just us does it does it work

4:22 | as a fit so it's it's fun in that that

4:25 | first episode we we have a lot of that

4:32 | you absolutely have to have levity but

4:35 | that's that's part of life you know that

4:38 | there are emotional trying moments in

4:40 | the show and there are times when

4:41 | everybody's like oh god I cry and I'm

4:43 | like but you're happy about crying

4:45 | you're hopeful about crying there's

4:48 | something that this show is able to do

4:49 | where it inspires people to be better in

4:52 | their lives communicate more understand

4:54 | more and that comes beyond the point of

4:59 | oh man I'm hurting that that's that's

5:02 | the rise of norm healing or the rise of

5:05 | I know this this is the better part of

5:08 | life and personally I that's what I

5:13 | think of when I see the show I don't

5:14 | think about tissue boxes

5:16 | I don't think about devastation I think

5:20 | about hope I think about the the best

5:24 | part of life that's discovered and you

5:27 | get to really really embrace because

5:29 | you're seeing it and and you're locked

5:32 | in on it and and it's real it's just

5:35 | real

5:40 | as storytellers it doesn't make any

5:43 | difference to us you know I think it

5:47 | adds excitement because it gives us a

5:49 | real roadmap I mean as an actor I've

5:52 | done shows where you just don't know if

5:54 | you're gonna be around or not and you're

5:56 | really hoping but I think this is also a

5:59 | very confident moment for the audience

6:04 | to invest in their time with us and they

6:07 | know that we're working toward I don't

6:12 | want to say an end or a closure or a

6:14 | wrap-up but but we have a lot of time

6:17 | still to spend with this family and I

6:21 | think it's it's it's an exciting thing

6:25 | to be a part of a show that is willing

6:28 | to do that for their audience and

6:30 | willing to do that for themselves I've

6:34 | seen I've seen the end I know the end I

6:36 | know a lot of it and getting up to it

6:38 | it's gonna be a lot of fun

6:43 | I think people relate to the stories

6:46 | because they're they're very simple and

6:48 | easy to understand you know you

6:51 | there are many fathers out there there

6:54 | are many husbands there are many wives

6:55 | there are many mothers there there are

6:59 | fundamental roles we have in society in

7:04 | call in our in different cultures that

7:08 | everyone gets to experience you know the

7:12 | joy of family the loss of family the the

7:14 | joy parenthood the I have no idea what

7:17 | that's like of parenthood being a son

7:21 | being a daughter there they're the most

7:25 | fundamental experiences of humanity and

7:31 | everyone goes through all so to see

7:34 | these stories on screen and to know that

7:37 | their lives the audience is not too

7:41 | dissimilar from our lives the players I

7:44 | think that is what makes people really

7:47 | embrace the show is those are my stories

7:51 | up on that screen it's not just Jack and

7:53 | Rebecca or Kevin Kate and Randle like

7:57 | that's my story

8:02 | it's it's really about so I mean it's a

8:06 | story about the pearsons but it's really

8:08 | a story about humanity right and just

8:11 | the universal things that the trials and

8:14 | tribulations that we all have to endure

8:15 | as people

8:19 | and and I don't know if it would be the

8:23 | same way if the show was called

8:24 | something else but the show is about us

8:28 | like when you watch it you should see

8:30 | yourself right

8:35 | a woman came up to me in the airport and

8:37 | she said you don't know what you did

8:40 | right I was like no I don't but I'm sure

8:43 | you're about to tell me and she said the

8:47 | way in you and that you and Beth dealt

8:48 | with your daughter coming out you had a

8:52 | level of grace that I was not able to

8:54 | have with my own child

8:56 | but I was able to see what grace looks

8:58 | like and I'm going to do better if

9:02 | that's not why you do it like you know

9:05 | to really affect somebody's soul and

9:08 | make them want to be a better person it

9:11 | doesn't get any better man like I love

9:14 | the show

9:18 | they do like they say like oh god I

9:20 | can't wait to cry again and they're like

9:23 | that I'm like I get it like there's

9:25 | something very cathartic very purging

9:28 | about sort of just letting it out right

9:30 | I think the show gives people permission

9:32 | to let stuff out that you don't even

9:34 | realize that you've been holding on to

9:36 | but I think you don't get to that place

9:39 | of catharsis without the hi right you

9:42 | need the peaks of life in order to feel

9:45 | the lows otherwise if it's all flat or

9:47 | if it's all low this is like this is

9:49 | depressing right so I don't think our

9:51 | show is depressing even though you cry

9:53 | ultimately it is uplifting and I think

9:56 | you those moments of joy are what allow

10:00 | people to come back week in and week out

10:04 | it feels really good to be back at work

10:06 | I really am excited for what's coming up

10:10 | next I just feel like last year was such

10:13 | an adventure and it left us in such a

10:15 | place to do something totally new

10:18 | especially in in our household so I'm

10:22 | really excited about about what's going

10:24 | to happen now

10:27 | there is like a lot of lightness and I

10:29 | like one of the people comes to mind

10:31 | like I love watching Justin and all of

10:33 | his scenes and and the way that any time

10:36 | we kind of go too far in one direction

10:37 | we always kind of bring it back in the

10:39 | other direction we always make sure

10:40 | there's some kind of laugh or some kind

10:41 | of way to to come out of anything that

10:44 | gets too heavy and I love that Beth gets

10:47 | a lot of she's a lot of like funny lines

10:49 | and things that I enjoy saying and enjoy

10:51 | playing and and and there I'm almost

10:54 | even between Beth and Randall that are

10:56 | that are light it's just them trying to

10:58 | you know experience parenthood together

11:01 | or experience you know this relationship

11:03 | thing together and and there's a lot of

11:04 | playfulness to it this playfulness with

11:07 | Jack and Rebecca with Toby you know

11:09 | especially you know he and Kate have a

11:12 | lot of playfulness so it I think there's

11:14 | a good balance that goes on I don't

11:16 | think we ever go too far in one

11:18 | direction without bringing it back to

11:20 | the to the lighter side

11:24 | people are connected so this is us just

11:26 | it's just what you said that the

11:28 | storylines and the all the things that

11:34 | we speak about are things that people go

11:36 | through just to put it plain I don't

11:38 | think we're taking everything that's

11:40 | just ripped from the headlines of our

11:43 | lives you know and saying like it's okay

11:46 | to talk about them I just did a film and

11:49 | one of the lines in it was if it's

11:52 | mentionable it's manageable if it's

11:54 | mentionable it's manageable and there's

11:56 | something about that that resonates in

11:58 | our show of like if we can talk about

12:00 | this somehow we can manage this and it's

12:02 | about not hiding but sort of revealing

12:06 | ourselves to one another and and you

12:09 | know saying that really putting the

12:12 | responsibility of a family you know the

12:18 | real responsibilities that family has to

12:20 | be there for us regardless right and so

12:22 | we keep calling our family to that task

12:23 | of like I'm gonna reveal this about

12:25 | myself I need you to still be there for

12:27 | me Matt that type of thing

12:29 | and so I think all those things really

12:33 | resonate with people it's a chance to

12:36 | just kind of see ourselves and be with

12:38 | ourselves and maybe explore the things

12:40 | that we don't usually even talk about

12:42 | but you know if it's mentionable is

12:44 | manageable right

12:48 | yeah you know people talk about how

12:50 | emotionally moving it was and one of the

12:53 | things that you know they talk about

12:54 | heiresses beautiful performance and how

12:57 | and how sort of heartbreakingly real

12:59 | that was but also the way that Randall

13:02 | and Beth handled it was was a great

13:07 | example of just loving somebody through

13:10 | you may not know how to get through it

13:11 | in the moment you know but you know that

13:13 | you still love this person and you want

13:15 | them to express themselves you know and

13:20 | be honest I think that's the most

13:22 | important thing I would much rather know

13:25 | and and and and feel so proud of my

13:29 | child for coming to me with that

13:31 | information then have some hide them

13:33 | hide it and feel ashamed to feel you

13:36 | know the worst thing is to do stuff in

13:37 | the dark you feel so ashamed feel guilty

13:39 | you feel all these things when you can

13:40 | you know be open and honest and have

13:43 | your family there to be with you support

13:44 | you help you through it and guide you

13:46 | through and so that was most important

13:49 | to me I think that that has to be a

13:50 | conversation especially in this country

13:53 | so that people don't feel that they have

13:56 | to hide or you know feel shame about

13:59 | themselves or what they're going through

14:00 | about their sexuality all of these

14:02 | things so that that was a really kind of

14:05 | and that was a really landmark moment

14:09 | for the season I think

14:13 | yeah I'm not I'm not surprised that the

14:16 | story is is surprising and that the

14:20 | story is as deep as it is and as

14:22 | emotional but I'm always I'm always

14:24 | shocked and impressed with how how the

14:29 | writers are able to continue to come up

14:31 | with all this great material that they

14:33 | just can they just seem to just have a

14:35 | knack for year after year

14:38 | so he's you know he's um he finds

14:41 | himself kind of in a difficult place he

14:43 | found love again and which doesn't

14:46 | happen to a lot of people so he found

14:48 | himself was sort of in a happy place

14:51 | he felt lucky he sort of thought he has

14:53 | his life in order and then this giant

14:56 | bump in the road which is he wants to be

14:58 | a father and he's with this woman who

15:02 | he's in love with who doesn't want

15:03 | children so that becomes a deal breaker

15:06 | and they both kind of mutually and very

15:09 | sad

15:10 | sadly decided you could sort of go their

15:12 | own ways and now he's kind of in a place

15:15 | honestly where he he has time to himself

15:18 | and time to sort of reflect and try to

15:21 | stay as healthy as he possibly can and I

15:24 | think we're gonna see him slow down a

15:27 | bit and look inside a little bit more

15:30 | than he has been and take a little time

15:32 | with himself and be more comfortable

15:34 | spending time with himself and getting

15:37 | to know himself I know that it that

15:39 | sounds kind of strange because here he

15:40 | is 39 years old and it's like he doesn't

15:47 | know who he is yet but but he really

15:49 | doesn't you know he's sort of figuring

15:51 | himself out so he does that he also

15:53 | reconnects with a few a few family

15:57 | members without giving too much away

15:59 | that get that starts kind of fairly

16:02 | early on in the season and then

16:03 | continues throughout and and that'll

16:05 | fulfil him as well so hopefully he's on

16:07 | this journey of sort of you know

16:09 | becoming healthier and more comfortable

16:12 | in his own skin

16:16 | well I think you know just simply simply

16:20 | put I think if you have a show about

16:22 | really heavy pressing issues that people

16:25 | don't like to talk about all the time

16:27 | sometimes it ends up looking like the

16:29 | news right and it's like you know it's

16:32 | there's something endearing about these

16:35 | characters when you're watching them go

16:37 | through these things that are yes

16:39 | they're difficult but they're very much

16:40 | real-life and they're not on an island

16:42 | where it's like oh the pearsons have all

16:44 | this bad luck they really don't have bad

16:46 | luck they have great luck as well and

16:48 | this is just real life and sometimes

16:50 | life is hard but when you when you can

16:55 | laugh through it and we when you can

16:57 | enjoy the good times I think that's

17:00 | that's what makes them so endearing and

17:02 | so relatable to everyone else they're

17:04 | not a pathetic family at all at all yes

17:06 | we have you know struggles with

17:10 | fertility we have death we have you know

17:14 | alcoholism we have druggable have people

17:17 | that die prematurely we have all that

17:20 | stuff but that's life and life is also

17:21 | beautiful and so they're not there they

17:24 | also have these great you know wonderful

17:27 | victories you know Kevin's got a great

17:29 | career now there's love in the show

17:30 | there's humor in the show so they're

17:32 | they're a wonderful family that is just

17:35 | sort of like all of us right you have

17:37 | these great losses and these wonderful

17:38 | victories and sometimes the pain is

17:41 | hilarious to be honest with you that's

17:43 | your way of dealing with it at least in

17:45 | my family sometimes it's like are you

17:47 | kidding you know what I mean and it's

17:49 | actually kind of funny these weird

17:50 | things that'll happen throughout your

17:51 | life

17:55 | if you do see yourself in any of these

17:57 | characters which I know that I do in all

17:59 | of them at some you know point

18:00 | throughout the season I will look at

18:02 | Rebecca or Beth or Randall or Kate or

18:05 | Toby or Kevin and be like that's me and

18:08 | then I'll see how they react to

18:10 | something and I'll be like you know if

18:11 | that ever happens to me again I'm gonna

18:14 | react a little more like that you know

18:16 | it teaches you how to sort of deal with

18:17 | things I think without beating you over

18:19 | the head with it and saying this is a

18:20 | life lesson because that's not really

18:22 | what we do but we just sort of tell real

18:27 | stories about life and and I think

18:30 | people I think people get attached to

18:33 | that

18:37 | it's really hard to compare because

18:38 | they're all of course individually

18:40 | amazing but this one for me in

18:43 | particular is special

18:47 | yeah I don't think anybody saw this

18:49 | coming so

18:53 | every single thing that happens right

18:55 | it's a ripple effect and that we're all

18:56 | connected in some way shape or form and

18:58 | that stands true for this episode

19:01 | obviously in a very personal way for

19:04 | Kate so I'm really excited

19:10 | yes so we know that in the finale

19:13 | Toby shows up and he says well they're

19:15 | on their way and everyone's freaking out

19:17 | because they don't know if that includes

19:18 | Kate or Jack or what's happening and so

19:23 | many people are asking like what am i

19:24 | skating I'm like she could be at the dry

19:25 | cleaners you never know and because the

19:31 | story as we've seen in the past three

19:34 | three seasons that nothing is

19:36 | necessarily linear and so that's great

19:39 | to be playful and to not know where

19:41 | things are headed and and what's ahead

19:43 | for each of these characters but I say

19:47 | not to fret

19:49 | I think the original magic really is

19:52 | these siblings in this really cool

19:55 | family that are just trying to figure

19:57 | out life and to deal with life on life's

20:00 | terms and that there are these these ups

20:03 | and downs these peaks and valleys that

20:04 | we all are learning to navigate and we

20:07 | don't know how so the show I think sort

20:09 | of gives you an instruction manual it's

20:11 | so to speak of how how do we do this

20:14 | and if we've never felt anxiety or had

20:18 | weight issues or dealt with race issues

20:19 | or paternity issues that oh this is how

20:23 | the pearsons handle it and I think

20:26 | because I've heard so many stories that

20:28 | it brings families closer together so

20:31 | they can talk about it so if they have

20:33 | their own issues they can say oh well

20:34 | and this is us this is how they handled

20:37 | it and it makes things a little softer

20:39 | to open up and have a conversation about

20:41 | which is really special and I think

20:42 | that's what great art does is it creates

20:45 | a new way of thinking opens up your

20:48 | heart your mind and it's done that from

20:51 | the show has done that from day one and

20:53 | out of the gate you know did you ever

20:57 | see a plus-size woman on a scale on

20:59 | network television no and not like you

21:02 | know an average-sized woman but a

21:03 | plus-sized woman who's really struggling

21:05 | with something or have you ever seen a

21:07 | really successful man have an anxiety

21:10 | attack and have his brother consoled him

21:12 | you know um

21:13 | all of these things that we get to see

21:15 | and it's sort of shown up in every

21:17 | single episode and it consistently does

21:19 | and I don't know how they do it but I

21:22 | know that obviously it's changed my life

21:24 | and it changes my family's life and so

21:25 | many people's lives so I don't know from

21:29 | the beginning yeah there are so many

21:31 | similarities from the pilot to like the

21:34 | finale of this last season but um

21:36 | they're also stand-alones as well

21:39 | because you see this evolution of this

21:41 | family and the siblings and how we're

21:44 | all affected by each other

21:49 | episode 1 of season 4 is is a starting

21:52 | over in many ways so it is almost as if

21:56 | we are starting a new series telling a

21:59 | new story and this first episode is yeah

22:04 | it's very it's very yeah it's definitely

22:09 | a throwback to how this all started

22:14 | yeah you know a lot of a lot of fans who

22:17 | watch this show

22:18 | are always talking about how much they

22:22 | they cry or the emotion that it brings

22:24 | up and I'm always a little like I'm not

22:27 | as involved in those storylines so I'm

22:29 | like I'm not sure what you're I think it

22:31 | shows pretty funny

22:32 | at least from where I'm standing where

22:34 | I'm standing so I think that the show I

22:38 | think a lot of times the show's levity

22:41 | gets a little lost but every every

22:42 | single character in this show is is very

22:46 | well balanced and and very able to to

22:53 | slide back and forth between drama and

22:56 | levity you know sterling K Brown is

22:58 | extremely funny Justin Hartley is one of

23:00 | the funniest people I've ever met

23:02 | Chrissy is hysterical so the and that's

23:06 | how that's that's the balance of life to

23:08 | like as sad and as horrible as things

23:11 | get there are also good and bright

23:14 | moments and I and I think that this show

23:16 | has a lot of both

23:20 | the story the characters are very

23:21 | specific the the storyline is very

23:25 | specific and the more specific that this

23:27 | show gets I think the broader and

23:29 | audience it reaches the more specific it

23:33 | gets the more inroads there are for

23:35 | people to relate to a character whether

23:38 | it's as a brother or a mother a father a

23:42 | sibling a best friend a husband or a

23:46 | wife and so as the seasons go on I think

23:50 | we're just going to attract more and

23:51 | more people who who find their way in to

23:54 | relating to this family

24:00 | yeah I mean they are new parents so the

24:04 | the challenges that come with that the

24:06 | the great ego death that comes with

24:11 | having a child when worrying about

24:14 | yourself is no longer your top priority

24:17 | for two people two characters who have

24:20 | maybe been a little selfish in past

24:22 | seasons you know as as all human beings

24:24 | are so it'll be interesting to watch

24:28 | them shift from thinking only about

24:32 | themselves then learning how to think

24:34 | about each other and take each other

24:36 | into consideration and then once they've

24:38 | just about figured that out just barely

24:41 | turn their attention to this child baby

24:44 | jack so it should be a an eventful

24:48 | fourth season

24:56 | you

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