Will Mandy Moore be pregnant on ‘This Is Us,’ too?
Q: Since Mandy Moore is expecting a baby, will her character Rebecca also be pregnant on “This Is Us”? – Heather Wade, via e-mail A: That remains to be seen, since the returning-soon NBC series prides itself on keeping its surprises close to the chest. Playing as liberally as it does with the timeline of its characters, the show could deal with the situation in a number of ways – and it’s more than probable that Moore (whom we know to be very conscientious) gave executive producer Dan Fogelman and the drama’s staff a substantial head’s-up that she and fellow-musician husband Taylor Goldsmith intended to start a family. The writers already may have started delving in creatively before the rest of the world learned the couple’s news.
Of course, if it turns out Rebecca isn’t shown at a stage of pregnancy, there are all sorts of tricks series-makers long have used to deal with such situations. You suddenly might see her only from the shoulders up, or sitting at tables or carrying big bags or packages a lot more. Our hunch is that Fogelman and company will want to be more inventive than that, though, so we’ll see. Q: I enjoyed the show “Chasing the Cure” which was on TBS and TNT and was hosted by Ann Curry. I was wondering if it will be back with new cases, or even if past patients finally were able to get a diagnosis. – Kathy Harger, Greenville, Mich. A: Though the series hadn’t been canceled as of this writing, there also has been no news regarding a Season 2. Among the factors in that may be the coronavirus pandemic – which has had an effect on so many shows – plus management changes within WarnerMedia, the parent company of those cable networks, in recent months.
It’s hard to track what happened with many of the cases presented during the first season of the show, since access to its associated website (which would have such information) was closed off early this year while the staff began “rethinking our digital experience.” However, those inaugural patients were offered the opportunity to continue pursuing their cases with “Chasing the Cure” collaborator CrowdMed ... free of charge. Has working on “Soulmates” changed your views on soulmates? I thought it was interesting that while shooting the episode that we did that just taking a kind of anecdotal tally of cast and crew, it was pretty divided of who would take the test and who wouldn’t take the test; who believed in a soulmate and who didn’t believe in a soulmate, because for me approaching the project I was pretty confirmed that, yeah, of course, I’d take the test and pretty amazed that people would think twice about taking it. Did filming this trigger any regrets or uncertainties about your relationships? I mean, I was single at the time I was doing it, so that’s maybe (why) I was much more gung-ho about the idea that I would take the test if I had it available. Yeah, I think you know you go through, as Brett was saying, a series of relationships through your 20s. And I guess once you reach your 30s, if you’re still sort of going, still looking, looking, looking, maybe the test is an easy way out if you’re single, but much more complicated if you’re already in a relationship. Do you believe in soul mates? I think that like I would like to believe in the idea of it, I think. I don’t think it necessarily exists. I think if there’s one person, then there has to be multiple people who are right for a person. And would I want to know? I guess at some point in your life you get to a point you’re like, I’d like to know now. But yeah, I think I’d like to believe in them, sure.