Stock up on tissues now! This Is Us creator Dan Fogelman teased what’s to come for the Pearson family — and its patriarch, Jack — while attending the Emmys’ Outstanding Casting Cocktail Reception in Beverly Hills on Thursday, September 7.
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“A lot of Jack stuff is coming,” he exclusively told Us Weekly. “I keep saying, towards the end of the first episode, there’s a big piece of the puzzle that gets put out there. And in the course of the second season, I think all the questions that everybody’s asking right now are going to be answered.”
Jack’s (Milo Ventimiglia) backstory and the way he died won’t be the only storyline. “[Kevin] has a very interesting storyline this year that I think is going to be surprising,” Fogelman added of Justin Hartley’s character.
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As for matriarch Rebecca? Last season, several episodes centered on Rebecca (Mandy Moore) and Randall’s (Sterling K. Brown) relationship. This time, however, there will be more of a focus on the mother-daughter duo Rebecca and Kate (Chrissy Metz).
“I think we’ve explored a lot of Randall and Rebecca already in the show, so we’re actually moving along — and while we’ll still continue to explore that relationship and what happened there, we’re actually doing a lot with Rebecca and Kate this year,” Fogelman revealed. “Both in the past and in the present. But it’s not that one story stays and the other goes away; I was just editing an episode that’s very Rebecca and Randall heavy today. But yeah, we’re trying to focus on all the relationships between all the kids and both parents.”
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He added: “[Kate’s] grown up in the shadow of her statuesque mother who sang, and she’s trying to sing. So there’s a lot of complicated stuff that we’ll be diving into.”
Season 2 of This Is Us premieres on Tuesday, September 26, on NBC at 9 p.m. ET.
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