<em>This Is Us</em> stars reveal their most challenging scenes from season 4 to film

“One of the harder things for them to talk about — both the mothers and the fathers, not all of them, but a good, good number of them — [was] that lack of immediate connection to their child that they either thought was going to be there, or everyone told them was going to be there, the fantasy fairytale version of it dictated as such,” he says. And whether it’s self-induced or that she created or contributed to that, that is something that was really difficult to play it in a way that she was strong enough, but also trying to be sympathetic enough.”Metz also felt challenged by the story unspooling for Rebecca, who has been diagnosed with what is likely an early form of Alzheimer's. “I'm so grateful to play with Mandy and all of the unveiling of what Rebecca really is going through,” she says. “I personally love comedy and I love the rhythm of comedy, and that scene for me, I was able to find such a rhythm of comedy in that scene that felt so fun to play,” she says. I love that scene.”Ventimiglia says that he had plenty to work with during Jack’s struggle with Rebecca’s father, Dave (Tim Matheson), but it was another shading of our preferred Pearson patriarch that presented an even bigger challenge. “Jack want[s] to be the guiding light in Randall's life,” he says. “Therapy was difficult on two levels because Randall was so guarded when he first initially went into the process and I've been doing therapy for a long time,” says Brown. When I picture the next few years of my life, I don't know what it looks like necessarily, but I know that I want to be surrounded by my family,’ is really bold and brave,” says Moore. “And I feel like it's a color we haven't necessarily seen of Rebecca, especially at this phase of her life.