Debra Jo Rupp
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard Dec 2024
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And I know I heard this on set too, that there would be times in which he would say it, and then sometimes he would say n-word or whatnot. But for your coverage, he like said it. So you were like, boom, right? For sure. And it is one of those things, these conversations about race happen much earlier, I think, in households of color than they do in predominantly white households.
Because when you are the minority navigating your way through world, you have to know how the majority sees you. Women have an acute understanding what it's like to live in a man's world. Black people have an acute understanding of what it's like to live in a white world. LGBTQ people have a very acute understanding of what it's like to live in a straight world, right?
But the opposite doesn't necessarily hold true, right? So he's saying like, how are you going to deal with raising this black boy when you don't have a frame of... My father has heard it so many times. He knew. what to give me in this particular moment.
Right. And so I'm curious, like acting through it, like, because there's visceral things that will happen as an actor. Like what I'm imagining is like, I'll figure it out. You know what I'm saying? He's my child. I'll figure it out. So I'm just curious for you.
So what is it, what happens? There's some moment I believe that causes him to have a second thought that ultimately leads to his recusal.
It's the letter.
You sent the letter.
With the picture in the letter?
Okay. Because that was a beautiful moment and just saying like, listen, and you said basically what you just said there, all due respect, understand what you're saying. This is our son. We are Pearsons. We don't stop. So we'll just keep showing up. We're going to keep showing up. You give me this kid.
Yeah. And he talked about how people... He said, like, he gets recognized for this show as much as anything else in his career, if not more so. That's wild. And he had two, three scenes? Yeah. You know what I'm saying? Two and a half. But the show was in the zeitgeist. He's like, man, I couldn't tell you how many times people come up and stop me for This Is Us.
So do I. Yeah. Okay. So he does recuse himself. And there's a little funny moment there where you guys are like, what does recuse mean? Is that a good thing? Yeah. They're like, we're not those people that use the cues on a regular basis.
Her name, by the way, is Connie Marie Brazelton. She is a dear friend of my mother-in-law's. Ryan and I lived in a property that she owned when we first got married. No way. Right? And she was one of the judges. I've also now lived long enough as a Black actor that I know a lot of the Black actors that play judges, both of them, in this episode of Russia.
You know who she was? She was on ER. You know how they had a handful of nurses that were always there?
She was one of those nurses, along with Abraham Ben-Ruby and stuff at the beginning. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
At the beginning. So yeah, that's how that happened. Stay in the same timeline because we sort of also opened this episode on young William, right? In front of another judge. And this guy was great.
Yes.
If you guys look up on IMDB, tell us what he's from because I recognize him immediately.
I want to say. So keep going because he, so William sort of, he's about to be- Sentenced. Sentenced to prison for however long. But he's talking to William about, you know, how disappointed he is to have to do this because he doesn't have any prior record or whatnot. And so, and William says something to the effect of, you're disappointed. Like, you could never be more disappointed than me.
I'm the most disappointed man in the world. and says like, what would you have me do, judge, right? People are out there selling. Would you not have me use? If you've been through what I've been through, you would do the same thing that I have done.
And we have, we as an audience have an understanding of that. I think that the really interesting thing is that we as an audience have an understanding of what William went through and who he will become. And we also have this understanding of like how he can be perceived by someone who does not know his story. Sure. You know what I mean? Yes.
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