Why Susan Kelechi Watson Needed a Break After This Is Us

“We definitely made more of a goodbye the moment that Sterling and I had our final scene together,” she shared. “I can’t tell you what it has meant to do this show with him, opposite him. He’s been just incredible. Nothing that I did or tried to do on this show would have been anything if I wasn’t doing it opposite him. So that was definitely something I made a moment of.”

Watson said she had to work hard to rein in the tears during her last scene with Mandy Moore, which featured Beth saying goodbye to Moore’s Rebecca Pearson on her death bed.

“My director walked in and he’s like, ‘Alright. This is gonna be the first goodbye of the episode. I’mma need you to try to pull it together, ‘cause if we lose you in the first five minutes, it’s wrap city for the rest of the episode,'” she shared. “So, I definitely had to pull it back, but it was all there, it was all there right at the surface.”

After six dramatic, powerful and memorable seasons, Watson shared the message she hopes fans will take away from the series.