Isaac Aptaker

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

But that was like the one time that like we had that conversation.

It was one of my favorite places to be. And I was saying this on a previous episode of the show. Like every pitch begins like, okay, the bad pitch is this because nobody wants to own it. Like I spent so much time thinking about it.

So I'm curious for you guys. I mean, you're running the show, but you've obviously, you've staffed and everything else. Talk to me about just like putting yourself out there and having the thickness of skin to be like, all right, didn't get that one. Like, what is that like for you guys?

These are very different rooms that are happening right now. A Dan mandate? Or was it him and Jess coming up with it together?

Like, yeah, they're going to find me out sooner or later.

We're doing it right now.

I would come in there a lot. Sterling was a fixture. You guys would all come in, but he was a fixture.

I came in a lot. Well, two reasons for it. And you guys can reflect this back to me. Cause it was my second long-term show. I did six years on a show called Army Wives. And one of the things that the showrunner would always tell me is like, dude, The better I know you, the easier it is for me to write for you. So this idea that you can't come in and talk is sort of anathema.

Just come in and say hi. It doesn't have to be a big deal. You can just do that. And I was like, okay. The open door policy was there. I was like, I'll just come in and say hi. But it's also because all the storylines are so individuated and everybody who watches the show thinks we're all around each other all the time.

But you know, you go on the Katobi track, you're on the Rebecca track, et cetera. So I loved seeing what everybody else was doing and what the trajectories for all the other characters were. Like I was as invested in that as I was, maybe even more so to a certain extent. I was like, okay, Randall's cool, but like, what's going on with Jacob? Is this Vietnam?

You do. I mean, that's the thing. They would ask us all the time, like, do you guys know when Jack dies and whatnot? I'm like, yes. To your credit, you guys laid out this beautiful tapestry and map that we, in the present, were always operating with this knowledge of, like, this happened in our past, right? Because I don't know how...

Some people say in certain TV shows, they're like, no, I just like to take it one at a time or what have you. And I feel like if you're doing a play or a film, you have the beginning, middle, and end. And so we can all sort of together help sort of chart the trajectory.

And I feel like sometimes, and I feel like there's a level of respect in this writer's room for actors that doesn't all, sometimes you feel, and you can feel it when you're being played like a pawn. Just do this. Pawn goes here, you do that. And then don't worry about the thing that happens next. We'll let you know when that next thing happens. And you're like, all right.

But because there was some sort of like shared collective experience or whatnot, like there was buy-in and there was a mutual respect. And it was like, oh no, we're all kind of doing this thing together. Like these, they're on the words, but like, I have thoughts and feelings and ideas, et cetera. And all of it felt respected all the time.

And I feel like that's not the, it's not that way on every show.

that you guys like, yeah, maybe didn't get to explore, that you had mapped out, but like there wasn't time or... Even just what happened in season five with regards to the world, did that like completely shift?

We were doing a live chat on a YouTube for the episode where Chrissy came on and a lot of people in the comments were talking about the divorce storyline. Was that something you guys knew about early? Yeah.

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Because even, there was a stock plummet. There was. Let's stop talking about it. We all signed a thing, we can't talk about it.

Abruptly taken off the air. Well, let me ask you guys this, because Dan always knew he had six seasons, right? And he never really wavered on that. Like, do you feel like he wavered on that ever?

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