A twist that knocked the cast’s socks off

As India gears up for the premiere of ‘This Is Us’ on Star World Premiere HD at 10 pm on Saturday, the cast of the show share their initial reactions to the shocking twist in the premiere episode.

‘A Walk to Remember’ fame actress Mandy Moore spoke of the twist, “I think most people aren’t clicking until he offers the cigarette to [Jack]. That’s the moment where you’re like, “Wait….” Even when I was reading it for the first time, I was like, “You can’t smoke in… a hospital!” That’s when I was like, “Oh, whoa!”

“I didn’t see it coming at all. Even seeing it for a fourth and fifth time — at this point when the reveal is about to happen, there’s that shot of him in the window, looking in the nursery, my adrenaline starts pumping and I start to feel this tingling in my body, oddly. And I know it’s coming, I was a part of this, but I have a very emotional response to it,” she said.

Emmy Award winning star Sterling K Brown also expressed the shock he felt, “Reading [the script], it started to slowly dawn on me. I remember specifically reading the camera pulling back and seeing everybody was wearing ‘70s-style clothes and lapels. I think right around there was when I was like, “Oh my god…” My jaw was on the ground. I was telling my wife, “Ryan, you’ve got to read this! You’ve got to read this!” and she was like, “It’s pretty damn special.”