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Sterling K. Brown

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
5911 total appearances

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Podcast Appearances

That Was Us
Jack & Rebecca's First Date | "Nine Bucks" (301)

Yeah.

That Was Us
Jack & Rebecca's First Date | "Nine Bucks" (301)

Yeah.

That Was Us
John Requa & Glenn Ficarra and Us | Directors & Producers

Get out of here. Wow. Okay, so wait. You guys started, I'm always sort of fascinated by this. Hold on, let me give a little bit of backstory. I'm talking again. A little backstory of like how I met these guys.

That Was Us
John Requa & Glenn Ficarra and Us | Directors & Producers

Get out of here. Wow. Okay, so wait. You guys started, I'm always sort of fascinated by this. Hold on, let me give a little bit of backstory. I'm talking again. A little backstory of like how I met these guys.

That Was Us
John Requa & Glenn Ficarra and Us | Directors & Producers

Get out of here. Wow. Okay, so wait. You guys started, I'm always sort of fascinated by this. Hold on, let me give a little bit of backstory. I'm talking again. A little backstory of like how I met these guys.

That Was Us
John Requa & Glenn Ficarra and Us | Directors & Producers

That's what I said. I was like, that's certainly Ryan. So check this out. I'm the one who told you guys this. I was in New York City doing a play by Susan Laurie Parks. It's called Father Comes Home from the Wars 1, 2, and 3. And Tiffany, the casting director, who I came in to see these guys for a movie that they were doing with Tina Fey called Whiskey Tango, Foxtrot. Yes.

That Was Us
John Requa & Glenn Ficarra and Us | Directors & Producers

That's what I said. I was like, that's certainly Ryan. So check this out. I'm the one who told you guys this. I was in New York City doing a play by Susan Laurie Parks. It's called Father Comes Home from the Wars 1, 2, and 3. And Tiffany, the casting director, who I came in to see these guys for a movie that they were doing with Tina Fey called Whiskey Tango, Foxtrot. Yes.

That Was Us
John Requa & Glenn Ficarra and Us | Directors & Producers

That's what I said. I was like, that's certainly Ryan. So check this out. I'm the one who told you guys this. I was in New York City doing a play by Susan Laurie Parks. It's called Father Comes Home from the Wars 1, 2, and 3. And Tiffany, the casting director, who I came in to see these guys for a movie that they were doing with Tina Fey called Whiskey Tango, Foxtrot. Yes.

That Was Us
John Requa & Glenn Ficarra and Us | Directors & Producers

So I go in. I audition for these guys. They wind up putting me in their movie. Got a small part, but a cool part. It was a lot of fun, right? Then I was doing OJ, which is 20th Century Fox, which is our studio, which is also the studio for This Is Us. And I don't know the exact, so you guys can fill in for me. And they're like, oh, this guy's playing Darden.

That Was Us
John Requa & Glenn Ficarra and Us | Directors & Producers

So I go in. I audition for these guys. They wind up putting me in their movie. Got a small part, but a cool part. It was a lot of fun, right? Then I was doing OJ, which is 20th Century Fox, which is our studio, which is also the studio for This Is Us. And I don't know the exact, so you guys can fill in for me. And they're like, oh, this guy's playing Darden.

That Was Us
John Requa & Glenn Ficarra and Us | Directors & Producers

So I go in. I audition for these guys. They wind up putting me in their movie. Got a small part, but a cool part. It was a lot of fun, right? Then I was doing OJ, which is 20th Century Fox, which is our studio, which is also the studio for This Is Us. And I don't know the exact, so you guys can fill in for me. And they're like, oh, this guy's playing Darden.

That Was Us
John Requa & Glenn Ficarra and Us | Directors & Producers

We should bring him in for This Is Us, whatever. Untitled Dan Fogelman project. His name's Sterling Brown. And the guys, it was the first time walking into a room where they're directing the pilot. And I'm like, oh, they're friendly faces. Yeah. It's nice to have like people know you. The studio is sort of like excited about you. You know what I'm saying? Like to have buzz.

That Was Us
John Requa & Glenn Ficarra and Us | Directors & Producers

We should bring him in for This Is Us, whatever. Untitled Dan Fogelman project. His name's Sterling Brown. And the guys, it was the first time walking into a room where they're directing the pilot. And I'm like, oh, they're friendly faces. Yeah. It's nice to have like people know you. The studio is sort of like excited about you. You know what I'm saying? Like to have buzz.

That Was Us
John Requa & Glenn Ficarra and Us | Directors & Producers

We should bring him in for This Is Us, whatever. Untitled Dan Fogelman project. His name's Sterling Brown. And the guys, it was the first time walking into a room where they're directing the pilot. And I'm like, oh, they're friendly faces. Yeah. It's nice to have like people know you. The studio is sort of like excited about you. You know what I'm saying? Like to have buzz.

That Was Us
John Requa & Glenn Ficarra and Us | Directors & Producers

I don't know, Mandy Moore, you've had buzz for a long time. Come on down. You're Mandy Moore.

That Was Us
John Requa & Glenn Ficarra and Us | Directors & Producers

I don't know, Mandy Moore, you've had buzz for a long time. Come on down. You're Mandy Moore.

That Was Us
John Requa & Glenn Ficarra and Us | Directors & Producers

I don't know, Mandy Moore, you've had buzz for a long time. Come on down. You're Mandy Moore.

That Was Us
John Requa & Glenn Ficarra and Us | Directors & Producers

So it was a really interesting sort of experience to come into the room and have like people that you've seen before that know your work, whatever, that are excited to see you. Like, cause most of the time you're just in there singing for your supper, trying to be, hello, my baby, doing your own jazz hands type thing.

That Was Us
John Requa & Glenn Ficarra and Us | Directors & Producers

So it was a really interesting sort of experience to come into the room and have like people that you've seen before that know your work, whatever, that are excited to see you. Like, cause most of the time you're just in there singing for your supper, trying to be, hello, my baby, doing your own jazz hands type thing.

That Was Us
John Requa & Glenn Ficarra and Us | Directors & Producers

So it was a really interesting sort of experience to come into the room and have like people that you've seen before that know your work, whatever, that are excited to see you. Like, cause most of the time you're just in there singing for your supper, trying to be, hello, my baby, doing your own jazz hands type thing.