Isaac Aptaker
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first heard Feb 2025
last heard Mar 2025
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That Was Us · Isaac Aptaker & Elizabeth Berger and Us | Showrunners of This Is Us · 18 Feb 2025
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I'll do it. I'll do it. I'll do it. I like that.
It was like fleeting. You gotta grab it. I guess my question is now, because the landscape of media is ever evolving and ever changing. a show like ours on network television, and I mean this in the most, do you feel like it will happen again? Or do you feel like everything has moved to streamers or what have you?
Or like, is there space for a serialized drama that's not a procedural to succeed right now, given just the strike that's just transpired and just like how, look, our show is what it is, but like, it's not like, well, I won't say that. People do rewatch it on Netflix and stuff. But mostly the things that do successful are the ones that like you can jump in and jump out.
You can't jump in and jump out of This Is Us. You're kind of confused by it. So I'm curious from you guys who are creating actively, like, is there even like a push or pull from the industry to get another one of these? Or is this like, no, we're doing different stuff?
To that end, so the propulsion part, which we were talking about this before, like everybody's sort of like, what happened to Jack? How'd it happen? And we're like, guys, there's all this kind of story going on. And they're like, yeah, but what happened to Jack? Then we solve that. Then we introduce Nicky. I kind of feel like that's the sort of next thing. You're like, he got a brother?
Who's this brother? Where's he been? How did it end? We didn't really, did we have that for the last two seasons? Or like once Nicky is introduced, like what would you say was that sort of propulsive part that was above the just drama of the family?
Yeah, yeah.
And they're like, where's Kate? Why is Kate not with Toby? They were wondering if Beth and Randall were together. Yeah, everything. Right? Then you were there without Kate.
working on that building? Let me tell you something. The introduction of Older Randall, my wife would destroy me. She's like, did you just let it all go, bruh? Do you remember? We had to take it down. We slowly had to... I remember the first time Old Randall was like... I'm like, this?
And John and Glenn did 214 and they're like, look, we just need to make sure that he doesn't look like he does in the present. We have to make it as big of a thing as possible so when people see it, they know that like it's a different time period, right? And I was like, yeah, but Randall's the dude that talks about running marathons and all this stuff. So it was a process.
It was a whole face prosthetic that became like pieces, like small pieces.
He wore a goatee in the past once for Chrissy's wedding, for Kate's wedding or Randall's wedding. He had a goatee and anytime he put on the goatee, this was like the whole time he'd just be like, touching his face and just be like. Miserable.
We take that part for granted in terms of like, we're just trying to deal with like the relationships that are happening in front of us or whatnot. But that anticipation that the audience also had for like what, because you give them such huge twists from the jump. The fact that we're all living at two different timelines from the pilot, the fact that Jack after 102 was like, who's this Miguel?
And he married to who? Like that was like, So like you've already sort of like stoked this anticipation. What are they going to do next? And you guys kept, that was probably, that must've been the hardest part.
You guys would do things, and they're usually probably would, I guess you guys, I heard this term Dan dates, like a mandate from Dan, where he would come up with stuff with characters not involved, like, the, I'm thinking of the FaceTime. Oh, the video chat guy, yeah. Yeah. And I was like, damn, is this gonna work?
Like every once in a while I ask like, is this gonna, and then I was like, I'd watch it. I'm like, you mother, it just got you. He had the whole one with like the immaculate reception. Do you guys know Franco Harris? No. He played for the Pittsburgh Steelers and we follow him at the beginning of the episode or whatnot. That's right, that's right. And I was like, why are we showing Franco?
And then it comes at the end. I was like, how do you do that? Yeah. My hair looks terrible. Put this back on right here. Did you guys ever question when he would come up with those things that were sort of hung around characters outside of the Pearsons? Did you question or you're like, no, he's gonna do it? Like, I'm curious from your perspective.
Where we meet Cassidy?
Yeah. Is there anything that you guys remember particularly in terms of how we played with structure that particularly excited you? I mean, I guess, you know, instead of just following the traditional storylines, like what episodes pop out to you writing-wise that were like very exciting to play with?
We're just watching those right now.
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