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Isaac Aptaker

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675 total appearances

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

Yeah, yeah.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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?

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

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?

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

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?

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

It was a whole face prosthetic that became like pieces, like small pieces.

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

It was a whole face prosthetic that became like pieces, like small pieces.

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

It was a whole face prosthetic that became like pieces, like small pieces.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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?

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

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?

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

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?

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

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.