This Is Us

Anyway, but it might work better as an episode where you have some plot to it.

But my thought was take sort of like a Blue Valentine approach or – I'm not too, I think like this is us is also like playing with timelines, but like either you say, we're going to look at, we're going to cut back and forth.

But I guess the thinking is cutting back and forth in time.

We're going to see back and forth.

That is like This

Is Us.

That's what they do in This Is Us.

I'm pretty sure.

I don't see her in anything.

Uh, she is the main character in This Is Us.

Oh, didn't watch that.

She has

But Asante is an amazing actor.

He was also on This Is Us.

He was, um, Deja's boyfriend that had the baby.

Really strong actor.

Like if you throw a water bottle at me in public, that's we're, we're, we're together now.

This is us now.

Which is a show where the dad dies in every episode.

I didn't see all of them.

I saw the whole season, the whole first season of This Is Us, and I just was like, it's a cliffhanger.

On the first one, they're like, he's dead.

And on the second one, they're like, you think you know how he's dead, but you don't know that.

Yeah.

But, like, I think to me that draws attention to the fact that it's kind of like a bad episode of This Is Us.

[laughs] I think in, in terms of, in terms of what it does with time- Yeah ... is because it's-

Yes

... it's a, it's a little manipulative I think, and that's why I compare it to a bad episode of This Is Us.

Mm-hmm.

Mm-hmm.

Is that...

So basically, this is the first movie John Lasseter is directing since the original Cars.

The writers of this film are John Lasseter, Ben Queen, Brad Lewis and Dan Fogelman of This Is Us fame.

I have seen Dan Fogelman in the flesh since the last Cars podcast, which is cool.

This is a story by Lasseter, Lewis, and Fogelman.