RE-RELEASE episode! We're looking back on some of our listeners' favorite episodes over the next few weeks and re-sharing them for anyone who might've missed the conversation! This week, we're starting with Susan Kelechi Watson aka Beth Pearson! We hear about everything from her audition process, what it meant to Susan to portray a modern black woman in America on television, the importance of a hair and makeup team who understands the individual's needs, the behind-the-scenes efforts that went into the portrayal and building of Beth's backstory, and so much more! Join us (again) as we reminisce and rediscover the anchor that is Beth Pearson. That Was Us is produced by Rabbit Grin Productions. Follow That Was Us on YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, Threads, and X! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Chapter 1: What inspired the re-release of this episode?
Greetings and salutations. That was us, subscribers, listeners, watchers. It's your boy, Sterling K. Brown. I hope you guys are having a wonderful holiday season. And I'm going to give you a little treat. Got a little re-watch podcast, re-listen podcast coming your way. One of my favorite episodes up to date. And that was the episode with my TV wife, Susan Kelechi Watson.
Beth in the house for a whole episode, just catching up on all things Beth and Randall and Sue. We had a wonderful conversation. We had a lot of laughs during this whole thing. We talked a little bit about how Sue and I knew each other before the show started, because we both went to NYU.
We talked about how we were able to build on that knowledge and turn that relationship into the wonderful relationship that you see on screen with Randall and Beth. She talked a lot about representing Black women on screen, talked about her hair and how sort of awesome and inspiring it was for her to be able to wear her natural hair. and change it up week in, week out on the episodes.
Thank you.
If someone had told Charles and Melanie that after their Tinder match, they would start a channel with crazy tasks together. So really crazy. Spend five days on a lonely island, crawl down a zip line on a belt, crack one million views, climb a wall with a lot of buttons and jump off a parachute in Egypt? They would never have believed that. But that's the thing with Tinder.
It takes you to places you would never have expected. Wherever it takes you. It starts with a swipe. Tinder.
Ladies and gentlemen, we're back. That was us, your host, Mandy Moore, Christopher Sullivan, myself, Sterling Brown. And we have a special guest in the house today.
Ladies and gentlemen, Susan Kalenji-Watson.
What up, Sue?
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Chapter 2: How did Susan Kelechi Watson prepare for her role as Beth Pearson?
Whoever was reading with me, it was like there was just not a connection. I'm in there and I can feel the scene going to the floor. And I go to pull out my pennies. And I pull the panties out, which is something that's already dead. Like, this is now dead. So now it just looks like this girl throwing panties around. I gotta finish. I gotta finish strong.
No, no, this was the plan.
This was the plan. You do what you wrote. Yeah. I pull my drawers out, throw them on the floor. Y'all got any notes?
It was a mic drop moment? It was the end of the scene? It was the end of the scene.
Is that exactly what you did? You said, y'all got any notes?
Y'all, when I tell y'all there are moments in your life that you just wish did not happen.
Yeah. And, and, and, and, and the worst part, cause I'm picturing it. Worst part is not that you threw them out. The worst part is you had to go pick them up. It's that moment. It's that moment. They're just like, let me just, let me just grab these. Thank you for your time.
Thank you for your time. Bend down, pick up the underwear.
I'll just, I'll take this. In my mind.
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