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Elizabeth Berger

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621 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

That Was Us
Isaac Aptaker & Elizabeth Berger and Us | Showrunners of This Is Us

I mean, we started with season one and then we were all so lucky. As you guys know, we got our pickup pretty early for the next two seasons. And then we were doing so well that we kind of knew sort of big picture what the whole series looked like and how long it was going to be. So those big moves of like, You know, when do you find out how Jack died? When do you find out this?

That Was Us
Isaac Aptaker & Elizabeth Berger and Us | Showrunners of This Is Us

I mean, we started with season one and then we were all so lucky. As you guys know, we got our pickup pretty early for the next two seasons. And then we were doing so well that we kind of knew sort of big picture what the whole series looked like and how long it was going to be. So those big moves of like, You know, when do you find out how Jack died? When do you find out this?

That Was Us
Isaac Aptaker & Elizabeth Berger and Us | Showrunners of This Is Us

You know, we worked all of that out pretty early.

That Was Us
Isaac Aptaker & Elizabeth Berger and Us | Showrunners of This Is Us

You know, we worked all of that out pretty early.

That Was Us
Isaac Aptaker & Elizabeth Berger and Us | Showrunners of This Is Us

You know, we worked all of that out pretty early.

That Was Us
Isaac Aptaker & Elizabeth Berger and Us | Showrunners of This Is Us

We had no idea that this was happening.

That Was Us
Isaac Aptaker & Elizabeth Berger and Us | Showrunners of This Is Us

We had no idea that this was happening.

That Was Us
Isaac Aptaker & Elizabeth Berger and Us | Showrunners of This Is Us

We had no idea that this was happening.

That Was Us
Isaac Aptaker & Elizabeth Berger and Us | Showrunners of This Is Us

I can't, but we still did pretty well. We had never had secrets leaked.

That Was Us
Isaac Aptaker & Elizabeth Berger and Us | Showrunners of This Is Us

I can't, but we still did pretty well. We had never had secrets leaked.

That Was Us
Isaac Aptaker & Elizabeth Berger and Us | Showrunners of This Is Us

I can't, but we still did pretty well. We had never had secrets leaked.

That Was Us
Isaac Aptaker & Elizabeth Berger and Us | Showrunners of This Is Us

Interesting. Well, Dan's the most closely we've ever worked with a third. And I think it was- With a third. We were so lucky. I mean, I think it can be a hard relationship, the sort of creator and then showrunners who work alongside that person relationship. We just, we get along so well and we already knew each other by the time we took the job, how many years?

That Was Us
Isaac Aptaker & Elizabeth Berger and Us | Showrunners of This Is Us

Interesting. Well, Dan's the most closely we've ever worked with a third. And I think it was- With a third. We were so lucky. I mean, I think it can be a hard relationship, the sort of creator and then showrunners who work alongside that person relationship. We just, we get along so well and we already knew each other by the time we took the job, how many years?

That Was Us
Isaac Aptaker & Elizabeth Berger and Us | Showrunners of This Is Us

Interesting. Well, Dan's the most closely we've ever worked with a third. And I think it was- With a third. We were so lucky. I mean, I think it can be a hard relationship, the sort of creator and then showrunners who work alongside that person relationship. We just, we get along so well and we already knew each other by the time we took the job, how many years?

That Was Us
Isaac Aptaker & Elizabeth Berger and Us | Showrunners of This Is Us

Sure, I can. We met in college. It was a long time. We met at NYU. We went to Tisch together and we were dramatic writing majors. And we met there and we became friends there. And then we moved to LA at the same time, sort of with the intention of becoming writing partners professionally. We got signed and we shared a manager with this Dan Fogelman character.

That Was Us
Isaac Aptaker & Elizabeth Berger and Us | Showrunners of This Is Us

Sure, I can. We met in college. It was a long time. We met at NYU. We went to Tisch together and we were dramatic writing majors. And we met there and we became friends there. And then we moved to LA at the same time, sort of with the intention of becoming writing partners professionally. We got signed and we shared a manager with this Dan Fogelman character.

That Was Us
Isaac Aptaker & Elizabeth Berger and Us | Showrunners of This Is Us

Sure, I can. We met in college. It was a long time. We met at NYU. We went to Tisch together and we were dramatic writing majors. And we met there and we became friends there. And then we moved to LA at the same time, sort of with the intention of becoming writing partners professionally. We got signed and we shared a manager with this Dan Fogelman character.

That Was Us
Isaac Aptaker & Elizabeth Berger and Us | Showrunners of This Is Us

And we wrote a screenplay. And while Dan was shooting Crazy Stupid Love, which he had written. With John and Glenn, who did This Is Us. Our manager slipped him the script that we had written. And Dan was, so the story goes, just sort of on set of Crazy Stupid Love, sort of giggling at our script being like, who are these young whippersnappers? I'd like to meet them one day.

That Was Us
Isaac Aptaker & Elizabeth Berger and Us | Showrunners of This Is Us

And we wrote a screenplay. And while Dan was shooting Crazy Stupid Love, which he had written. With John and Glenn, who did This Is Us. Our manager slipped him the script that we had written. And Dan was, so the story goes, just sort of on set of Crazy Stupid Love, sort of giggling at our script being like, who are these young whippersnappers? I'd like to meet them one day.

That Was Us
Isaac Aptaker & Elizabeth Berger and Us | Showrunners of This Is Us

And we wrote a screenplay. And while Dan was shooting Crazy Stupid Love, which he had written. With John and Glenn, who did This Is Us. Our manager slipped him the script that we had written. And Dan was, so the story goes, just sort of on set of Crazy Stupid Love, sort of giggling at our script being like, who are these young whippersnappers? I'd like to meet them one day.