I went out of body and don’t remember any of that ceremony, let alone the week following. It was scripted very much after what I experienced at my mother’s funeral, which was I spent all night staying up writing the eulogy. And I wanted that to be the feeling in the end.ĭid you consider airing the audio of the eulogies? Literally and structurally, I wanted that to be the case with how we ended the show.Īs much talk as there’s been about how much people cry watching the show and how sad it is, I’ve always found the show remarkably beautiful and uplifting, not because of me but because of the people who work on it. The show was always about, not just a death of a parent but how we move forward and how we move forward in our lives carrying pieces of people with us. He has the older children, so the idea that he has a daughter who’s having a son just as he’s processing losing a mother, that felt appropriate. I tended to think of him in this final episode as representative of the big three - until we get to the end and they all have their gigantic scene together - meaning he’s the one, at that moment, who’s becoming a grandfather for the first time. This episode is so much about legacy and moving forward. There wasn’t a reason other than he was the character that was having a grandchild. Why is Randall so prominently featured in the episode’s present-day storyline? So about half to 2/3 of the episode was shot years ago. So we shot everything except Milo and Mandy’s toy store scene. It was mainly to capture our original kids at a younger age, which would feel nostalgic for the audience. The entire past story in the finale was filmed three or four years ago. What parts of the episode were filmed earlier on in the series? Ultimately, as Randall finds out he’s having a grandson, it was that little Randall taking in his father and taking in his family, that was always going to be the shot that we ended it on. I knew I wanted to end on the sentiment of children looking at their parents, locking in on something they’re going to carry forward into their lives.
Why did you pick Randall looking at Jack for that frame? And so I think that’s what the ending is about and it’s kind of what the final shot was saying.
And it’s a bit of a hard thing to wrap your head around, but when you widen out - as the show has hopefully done by spanning multiple generations of the family - you can see the connective tissue and can see how the people you lose remain in the picture the entire time.
And there is something about knowing that, in both little and big ways, they’ll live on with you. We’re all going to, in our lives, inevitably experience great loss and great grief. And that’s always been at the core of the show. The final message of “This Is Us,” what the ending is all about and what the whole show has really been about, in a lot of ways, is a very simple promise that people who you lose live on through the people left behind. It was between two, because they’re both pretty powerful.
How did you decide on the final shot for “This Is Us”?
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See more from Variety‘s interview with Fogelman about the “This Is Us” series finale, titled “Us,” below. Brown as Randall, Susan Kelechi Watson as Beth, Justin Hartley as Kevin and Alexandra Breckenridge as Sophie Ron Batzdorff/NBC Iyana Halley Annie, Iantha Richardson as Tess, Sterling K. These scenes all take place on a rather uneventful day in the Pearsons’ past, when the whole family had a lazy weekend to share together. Brown), Kate (Chrissy Metz) and Kevin (Justin Hartley) and their families adjusting to their lives following the passing of their mother, Rebecca (Mandy Moore), on last week’s episode, decades after losing their father, Jack (Milo Ventimiglia), as teens.īut as with almost every episode of series creator Dan Fogelman’s “This Is Us,” the installment also featured many flashback scenes, with a special twist added in for the series finale: More than half of the scenes were shot three or four years ago when the original child actors who played Young Randall (Lonnie Chavis), Young Kate (Mackenzie Hancsicsak) and Young Kevin (Parker Bates) were all still young enough to portray the pre-teen stage. NBC said goodbye to the Pearson family on Tuesday with the series finale of “This Is Us.” The end of the drama’s sixth and final season focused heavily on older Randall (Sterling K. SPOILER ALERT: Do not read if you have not yet watched “Us,” they May 24 series finale episode of “ This Is Us.”
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