Elizabeth Berger

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That Was Us · Isaac Aptaker & Elizabeth Berger and Us | Showrunners of This Is Us · 18 Feb 2025 podcast

And then he came back when he came back to L.A.

So then we met Dan.

Yeah.

But I should not run it.

No, it wasn't.

Yes.

But I did, I printed it out eventually for Dan, but he wrote us an email that was like, I think I have a role for you guys on this. This is us one. But like, you have to like promise me that you're going to take it seriously. I mean, I know it's very Dan, but I wrote back to him and I was, at the time I was very earnest. I was just like, I promise you, we're gonna take this so seriously.

I was so nervous. And then we started doing that. But yes, to your question, like we worked so closely with Dan. Every day was sort of, it was always dividing and conquering, but our favorite place I think to be was in the writer's room with him just slowly hashing things out. But it was just nonstop, the three of us huddled and figuring it out.

I mean, Dan was really smart. Some writers rooms are very like, it's all about the hierarchy and who has the most experience. I think what Dan did so well was that he recognized that you could be the youngest, newest writer in a room, but you could also be really brilliant and have a take on something.

And he was not the type to just be like, well, this is the co-executive producer and they're going to go. He really tried to match writers with what felt, you know, right for them. And that I think you can kind of feel in the writing of the show that someone who is connecting really authentically is in charge of writing that episode.

Was there any? Definitely. because there are ideas like the car or like certain things where people were like, oh man, that would be a really special one. But we also like, the bar was very high for every episode. So everything kind of had that specialness to it.

Yeah. I mean, I think you have to be very lucky. It's not, I mean, it's a relationship that I would say, I mean, we say all the time, we spend probably more time together than we do with our families, our spouses, our children. We're striving for more balance, but it's still the case. I mean, you have to really like being around each other and you have to really respect each other.

And then I think you also have to grow together. I mean, we're very different. We met when we were 20 and 18. I'm not going to tell you who's older.

But if you're watching on YouTube, you just saw the gesture. If you are watching this, you will see.

But yeah, you have to adjust. You have to realize that your schedules aren't going to be the same as when you were 25 years old and you could work and pull all-nighters. You have to adjust for children and relationships. And we've been really lucky that we've been able to do that together.

I mean, like... Yeah, I mean, it's like we do... You know what I mean?

Yes, they are. I mean, it's like, it's the kind of thing where Isaac and I, like, we see each other all the time. Like, if we see each other on the weekend, we enjoy it and it happens, but it's not like we're just, every weekend we're like, hey, what are you doing this weekend? I miss you. Yeah.

But it's like, but yes, all of those, they are our littlest, our sons, our babies play together almost every day. Oh my gosh, I love that. We're not there, but it's okay. But they send us video.

I mean, I wonder if it's similar for you guys, but I think. The level to which it resonated and how much it meant to people, we couldn't prepare for that. That was so shocking. I say this to Isaac, but when people that don't know me meet me and say, what do you do? I still want to tell them that I ran This Is Us, even though

Even though time has passed because I know what it meant to people and what it meant to me to be part of something that meant so much to people. Like it's the, it remains the seminal, at least professional experience of my life thus far. And it's going to be hard to match.

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