Dan Fogelman
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160 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard Mar 2025
Dan Fogelman’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I went there for the filming of that. And I mean, I completely agree. And I went there for the filming of it. I remember it was only, they only did, we only did two takes, I believe, of that big, the big walk, not the conversation with Bill, but the big walk in and the reaction to Milo. I think it was two takes. And I was like, oh, that's that's the best thing in the show.
And that's going to be like an iconic moment of television. Like I was like, that's really crazy. And it's just all just it's a single shot on Mandy. I mean, it's just like literally just her up against the doorframe. And I was like, oh, that's unbelievable. I remember realizing in a real time. And I remember I'd driven down to that hospital and I was like, it was so intense.
And I saw the second take. I said, bye, guys. I'm going back to the writer's room. Like I was like, oh, I don't there's nothing else to do here today. Like, yeah, it was nuts.
I think also one of the, like, the theoretical things about this being the Super Bowl and on the Super Bowl and then I really wanted the Super Bowl was, like, in a family drama that doesn't have a lot of, like, it's not like a whodunit, right? Yeah. I was like, the death of the patriarch in that moment for Mandy, that's our Super Bowl. Right. It doesn't get any bigger than that. Right.
It's like, um, we kind of have a lot in the new project we're doing, but John Rico always says it was his like life at full volume was an expression he always used that I liked and I've used, I've stolen from him. I was like, that's it. That's one of the, that's this fan for, you know, man, that's the moment that will forever be the most, the biggest moment in their life. Yeah.
Yeah. I mean, for me, I was, so like, you know, you use your experience and I was, my mom passed away when I was like 30. But she had a surgery that wasn't supposed to be life-threatening and it went backwards, sideways. And she was in the ICU for a couple of days, but never woke up from the surgery.
And I kind of stayed vigil at the hospital for like three or four days, like playing martyr, refusing to leave, sleeping there, eating there. And it was a surgery I'd arranged. It was a whole horror show. But it was like two o'clock in the morning and I had the experience of like just being woken up by her doctor, shaking my shoulder as I slept on a couch in the ICU, telling me she was gone.
And it was singularly lonely and bizarre. And in my life thus far, it's been my moment, along with birth of kids and weddings and stuff. But it was like, I remember being struck by, that's where some of the stuff was born out of. I wasn't eating a chocolate bar, but I remember that day I had given myself a break and went down to a local bar
like sports bar, walked out of the hospital, went to a sports bar and had like a burger at a bar and watched the NCAA tournament was on TV. And I gave myself an hour because there was just nothing. And I just like, that haunted me for a great long time that I'd left that day, even though there was nothing doing, I wasn't sick. You know what I mean? And so it was born out of that. Fun stuff.
No, no. I'm trying.
You know what I mean? I think so, but I'm not doing it with that intent. I mean, honestly and truly is like you just write if you're willing to dig in and write your stuff, then you hope that other people it's not like I'm going to do this so that other people can relate to it. Sure. Of course, everybody's had those moments in their lives, right?
So that's a byproduct of the show being done well by all the actors and all the other writers and whatnot. is like everybody's writing about their own human experience and hopefully a part of it connects with people. This show did. That was like the real gift of this show.
The reaction to this show will forever be different than any other show we ever do because everybody related to moments in their own lives and their family. Right, right, right.
No, please. No, please.
That's one of my other... That's one of my probably 10 favorite scenes in the series because that scene with Huertas and Mandy because it's very clear if you step back from the series and watch it, that's the moment that Rebecca becomes... like the lead of the family and the lead of the show.
And that scene, up until now, she's been the dutiful, sometimes unhappy younger wife, a kind of unhappy-ish matriarch in older age of the family. He's kind of lonely and sad. And in the second marriage, it's quieter. But you haven't seen, this is the start of the chapter where she like,
she takes over a family without the kind of de facto guy who's always assumed the leadership position of the family and becomes the hero of the story. And it very clearly happens in that scene. Like, that's a different character from then on out.
That's part of the time jump, right? Like you get to see the other side that you can't picture on the day. It's like after you experience great loss, you're hard pressed to even imagine you'll ever be
happy again let alone be able to talk about a person who's gone in a way without it making you burst into tears but but that is the human condition you will even if you can't see it and this show because you get able to jump right 20 years it gives you that the ability to make them work hand in hand it was like the great magic trick of the time jump yeah yeah so cool i don't have to talk
Sterling. What are you doing?
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