Isaac Aptaker

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

Everybody's having babies. I'm getting lapped.

That's right. I was like the only person that had babies. It was me and Justin, because he had his older daughter or whatnot. Now, this is a question I have for both of you right now, because you both have three, just like Rebecca on the show. Is it an incremental step up from two, or is it an exponential step up from two?

I remember at one Paley Fest, somebody was asking like what they thought, how he expired. And people were pitching out all kinds of random theories and things that some were kind of crazy. And then if somebody said like house fire, like, oh, that's a good one. You know what I'm saying? He couldn't like betray anything, yeah. Next question.

So, okay, in terms of running it and the process with this show as opposed to other ones, because you guys have run a few other things as well, what's the synchronicity of how do you work with Dan as opposed to other shows that you run?

And I do, I printed it for him. Well, Kev was doing pitch, wasn't he?

Yeah. And then he came around.

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So anxiety and corn sandwiches.

One thing that I noticed from coming into the writer's room is that I feel like they had a very strong sense of not only the characters, but they had a very strong sense of who we were as people. Because as you're watching the show, like you're watching the dailies, you see us in character and you see us sort of out of character as well and whatnot.

So I'm curious, like, what are the things that you saw in us that like, you're like, you know what we should write towards? Because so-and-so already is sort of living in this place already that might help to sort of evolve the character even further. Oh, that's interesting. That's a hard question. I'm trying to think of it.

That's in the pocket.

What is it like for you all in terms of writing scripts? And I know they'll go through the script and they'll go line by line or scene by scene and everybody will give notes on what they think should change and what plays, what doesn't. So it's very sort of scrutinized sort of thing. I'm interested in your take on actors who don't say the fucking words. Do you like that? Do you not like that?

But I'm saying like, is it a strong, because I'm sure it also varies from set to set. And I want to say this, like, if you're on a Sorkin set, you're going to say the line.

To the comma. A very young, very sort of skittish 25-year-old girl will come up to you and say, hi, sorry, but you said this and you were supposed to say that. If you were on Amy Sherman Palladino, you're going to say what's there. So I'm curious for you guys with Dan and whatnot, what kind of rules did you guys have for yourselves in terms of latitude versus not latitude?

And right to right, papers flying. Exactly, exactly. I can remember one time where we had like a little bit, there was this tension. It was season three. There wasn't huge tension. It was the argument between, it was an argument between Beth and Randall. And there was a joke at the end of it that sort of undercut everything to try to diffuse the tension. And I remember it was one of you two guys.

I was like, guys, I don't think I should diffuse the tension. And they're like, well, you try this joke. And I was like, I don't want to do a joke. I feel like Randall is known as being the person who sort of like brings things back in that sort of way because he's uncomfortable with it. I think I want to live in this discomfort of that. And you guys were like, Like, you know what I'm saying?

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