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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
This is a HeadGum Podcast.
Welcome to a very special episode of That Was Us. It's special for a lot of reasons. One, if you are watching now, you are seeing a solo Chris Sullivan introducing this episode. And you might think, well, wow, maybe Mandy is at home with norovirus because living with three children under the age of six is a constant biohazard.
And Sterling must be off in New York City promoting the new season of Paradise. But no, they are actually at home watching this episode of That Was Us on Hulu. Yeah, they were like, we can't wait. It was released early because this episode is now available every Monday, one day early, exclusively on Hulu. Now, don't get me wrong.
Chapter 2: What insights does Jennifer Morrison share about her character Cassidy in This Is Us?
Nothing else is changing. These episodes are still available on Tuesdays anywhere you get your podcasts. So don't worry about that. If you like it the way it is, you can have it the way it is. So now I am here to introduce the episode on my own, which, you know, I kind of like. It's kind of nice. If you're watching, it's like Masterpiece Theater with Sully. And I can say whatever I want.
I can throw to whoever I want. I could throw to Sterling and we could show you an empty shot of nobody sitting there. What do you think, Sterling? Ah, the best answer he's ever given. No, but today's episode is also very special because we are interviewing Jen Morrison, the Jen Morrison, actor, director. And that's what we do on this podcast.
If you're just joining us on Hulu, maybe for the first time, Welcome to the family. We usually go through the episodes, you know, we talk about the themes, but sometimes we interview people from the show, whether it's actors, guest stars, stars, writers, creators, the creator of the show, Dan Fogelman, because a lot of our back catalog also available on Hulu. Go check them all out.
But today is Jen Morrison. It's an incredible interview.
Chapter 3: How did Jennifer Morrison transition from acting in Once Upon a Time to directing?
Welcome to That Was Us. A HeadGum Podcast, now available exclusively one day early on Mondays on Hulu.
So we have another very, very special episode this go-round. I'm excited that we're kind of... You know, peppering in our rewatch with a lot of our favorite cast members and crew members. And this lady is no exception. We've been trying to get her on the podcast for many moons now.
A long time.
But she is very busy and she finally had like a hole in her schedule. Jennifer Morrison is joining us today.
She plays Cassidy on our show. That's right. For the last two seasons, right?
Three seasons. Four, five, and six.
I love quadrangle that is Cassidy, Zoe, Kevin, and Sophie. And Nikki. I include Nikki.
And Nikki. Throw him in there.
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Chapter 4: What challenges did Jennifer face while directing her first feature film?
There's just all sorts of things. Will they? Won't they? How's it all going to play out? And she comes in. You get a chance to see this from the conversation. She's just a dope human being who's been doing this thing for a long time, has a lot of expertise and knowledge and passion, and just a joie de vivre that is infectious.
And you get to hear the word inculcated. Inculcated, yeah.
Inculcated from our friend SKB over here.
I love a new word. It's rare you hear a new word that you've never heard before.
Yeah, I haven't heard it either.
You know what we'll have to do? We'll have to play Scrabble sometimes.
Okay. I don't think I want to.
Although I'd like to learn. His eyes just went like shark eyes when he said Scrabble. He says, you know what we should do?
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Chapter 5: How does Jennifer describe the intense shooting schedule for This Is Us?
We should play Scrabble sometime.
Yeah, the voice change. Or not.
Or not. It's fun. We'll learn new words.
It's fun. We'll learn new words.
We'll learn new words. Collectively.
Well, so listen, I play on New York Times. They have this thing called Crossplay, which is basically like Scrabble for people who have the Times app. And I get blasted.
all the time who do you play with friends or the computer or random people one person no you can like anybody else who has the app they can say like hey find somebody who's in my same skill category and then you and and we have wonderful games it's like the old words with friends like the old words with friends same story but with strangers yeah words with strangers yeah we'll put it to the side for now and then we'll have jennifer come in and you guys see a wonderful conversation
Am I right that you're a voice in Frozen 2? Yes. Yeah, I was like, I've seen it 14,000 times, and I was like, that's Sterling.
Yeah, that's Lieutenant Matthias for that ass. For that ass. For that ass.
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Chapter 6: What personal experiences influenced Jennifer's portrayal of Cassidy?
Is that one of the lines? Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's one of the lines from it.
It's very Disney appropriate.
Let it snow. For that ass.
Oh, God. Oh, God. I've spent a lot of time watching Disney movies and Paw Patrol.
Yeah. This is our life. Chase is on the case, baby. Yeah, a rebel on the double. No doubt. I used to love me some Paw Patrol. That was the jam. There are certain shows that I actually miss. I'm going to tell you the biggest one.
Yeah.
And I don't even know if you guys, you guys may have missed this one because of like the age of kids.
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Chapter 7: How did Jennifer's upbringing in a marching band family shape her work ethic?
Disney Junior had my jam. It was called Little Einsteins.
Oh, I love Little Einstein. Oh, my God. It's great. No, I never watched it.
We're going on a trip in our favorite rocket ship. Zooming through the sky for Little Einstein. Climb aboard. Get ready to explore. There's so much to find. Little Einstein. It's great.
It's very good. It's got a lot of classical music.
It's a lot of music. Love. There's a conductor. There's an instrument guru guy. There's a girl who always comes up with dances to everything.
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Chapter 8: What unique perspective does Jennifer bring to her role as a director?
And they feature a classical song of every week or whatnot. And it's awesome.
We got to get it back in the rotation. It was in the rotation for a long time.
It's worth introducing to your kids. You guys in particular would love Little Einsteins. Last night, Aoife and I came back around to an episode of Bluey called Sleepy Time.
Oh my God.
Sleepy Time is the... Deserves a Pulitzer Prize. I weep. A Peabody it deserves.
Sterling, you have to watch this seven minute episode.
It's an episode of a cartoon that... deserves an Academy Award. We'll watch it during lunch.
We like occasionally get little bits of Bluey, but she's not quite, like she isn't keyed into it. Like she likes the characters two and a half. She likes the characters, but she isn't like keyed in where like that's the thing she wants. She wants Paw Patrol and she wants Everest from Paw Patrol.
Okay, I got you.
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