The Met | "New York, New York, New York" (416)
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What behind-the-scenes stories do the cast share about filming in New York?
Thank you.
On today's episode of That Was Us, we're diving into season four, episode 16, New York, New York, New York. Rebecca and Randall join Kevin in New York, but the night takes an emotional turn. Through flashbacks of the Pearsons' family trip to New York, we see how the Met became such a meaningful place for Rebecca and how those memories resurface when she's faced with what comes next.
Hello.
What's going on, gang? It's up to you. New York, New York. New York, New York, New York. This brings back, so this is our second time going to New York as a show, right? Kev and I went one time in season one. To roll around. With Seth Meyers. In the meat packing district. That's correct. I felt like I did roll through a little bit of urine.
For sure you did. It was delightful. 100% did.
It was delightful. Let's just say 100% of New York is covered in urine.
Yeah. Dog urine, human urine. Yeah.
There's some.
All the urine.
Yeah. But this trip to New York was because all three of us got to go. Me, Mandy, and Justin.
And Milo.
And Milo. And Milo. And my man who plays his teacher and like all the young kids were there too.
Dave Annabelle. Were all the young kids there too? No.
Okay, so that was shot.
No, that was shot at the LA Arboretum. Fun fact.
Interesting.
They like set up the carriage ride at the Arboretum. And the rest of like LA, downtown LA was like for queens and stuff. Gotcha, gotcha, gotcha.
But there's, before we even get to the episode, there was an epic night.
There are a few memories. Because I didn't get to travel a lot with the show. I didn't go to Vietnam. Justin got to go everywhere, didn't he?
Pretty much. He went everywhere except for Memphis.
Yeah, and Philly.
And Philly. And I didn't go to Vietnam. Vietnam.
Yeah. So we didn't travel too much as a show. I didn't go to Vegas with you guys. But New York was fun. And because there wasn't a ton of work, I had some scenes there for sure. But when I was in present day Rebecca age makeup, and I was with you and Justin, There wasn't, like, the scene at the Met, sure.
Sure.
But after we got that done, that was, like, the first night, right? Yeah. And then the second night, we kind of let loose a little bit.
Dude.
You guys.
Were we at the— Plaza? We were at the plaza. Uh-huh. Right? And Justin's like, you know, we got time, right? Let's get a couple drinks. I was like, I could have a couple drinks, bro. We got a cocktail. Oh, good. Now, Mandy Moore, what you don't know about Mandy Moore, you see that face she's making? She didn't drink a lot.
But I was like, oh, the opportunity to have a cocktail with my friends here, with my children.
We had so much fun.
Oh, we were laughing.
We were cracking up. And it was just kind of like us in the hotel, right? Because they had it sort of sequestered or something.
And they were setting up the shot outside. It was like me getting out of the car, walking into the hotel. They were nothing burger situations. So it wasn't like we had a whole scene and we were like, oh, how are we going to do this? We weren't really even doing anything.
But you were hammered on camera.
We were hammered. No, and not hammered, but I was a little like, I was feeling good.
I was feeling good. You know this? You know Justin and I didn't go to bed that night?
Oh, because you then rolled right to the airport, right?
No, no. We went and hung out with some friends of Justin's who were in Manhattan. And, like, a married couple that he's known for forever. And we just, like, we had, like, a game night sort of thing. State of drinking. And then, like, the sun was coming up. And then we went to go, like, have breakfast. And then from breakfast, we went to the hotel. And then we had to leave. We didn't go to bed.
You and Justin?
We were up the whole night.
That's so cool. But those are, like... Yeah.
Yeah.
You can't write that. Like it's exactly what you should be doing. It was awesome. It was so fun. And again, this was like right before the pandemic, like right before the world shut down, like February of 2020. So it felt like, you know, you know, that sort of indelible line of like before COVID and after COVID, like this is before everything sort of changed.
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Chapters
7 chapters
1
What behind-the-scenes stories do the cast share about filming in New York?
0:00–11:38
2
How does the reunion and red carpet premiere scene play out for Rebecca and the Big Three?
11:38–14:50
3
Why does Randall push for a St. Louis clinical trial and how do siblings react?
14:50–43:15
4
How do Jack and Rebecca's New York family trip memories shape the Met scene?
43:15–48:05
5
What behind-the-scenes stories explain filming in Central Park and FAO Schwarz references?
48:05–55:52
6
How does Kevin’s NY showcase create tension between the brothers and lead to the awkward restaurant scene?
55:52–58:51
7
How did listener Dawn’s caregiving journey and book 'Memories Matter' connect to This Is Us’s Alzheimer’s storyline?
58:51–1:26:40