We thought the interesting story would be the loss of the friendship Kate had with the birth mom. Still, we did want to tell an emotional journey for Kate and Ellie as friends.
So it was really important for us to tell a different kind of story and not play the jeopardy of, “Is she going to keep the baby?” In fact, sometimes it can be a deterrent to potential adoptive parents.
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We were told by the adoption experts that the TV trope where the mom changes her mind at the last minute and keeping the baby doesn’t often happen. This whole adoption storyline was something we took very seriously. It now makes sense why she wanted to hold her first at the hospital. Let’s talk about Kate and Toby bringing baby Hailey home from the hospital, and Ellie’s decision not to be part of their lives. We finally decided that time period was the formative time period for him. We did! We thought about if Kevin would picture him how he looked before he died, with the sort of goatee and slicked-back hair. We tried to give that moment to Kevin with Jack. I can imagine that feeling of wanting to talk to your parents and have them tell you it’s okay. For me, when I had kids, I never felt more connected to my parents. As soon as he told us that story, we were like, “We have to put it in there.” After he saw the cut of the episode, he said it was very close to what his dream was. He had a dream where he saw his mom holding his baby daughter in the window. One of them, Elan Mastai, told us a story about losing his mom when he was about 25. We have a number of writers on our show who have lost parents in their teens and 20s. Our director, Jon Huertas, welled up on set too. The scene where Kevin dreamt he saw Jack interacting with his newborn twins broke me. “Dan was particularly excited about juxtaposing Jack bringing home his children with Kevin bringing home his children,” she says. What am I waiting for? This is it.” We really wanted it to be crystalized for Kevin in that moment.īrownell says creator Dan Fogelman couldn’t wait for the moment Kevin became a father and thought about his own dad. We really wanted the moment for him to be, “Look at what I have in front of me, look at this amazing woman, look at these two beautiful babies. Kevin is a character that is sort of always searching and self-criticizing. And her exchange with the paparazzo following them home from the hospital made me love her even more. She keeps him grounded while managing to keep their anxieties in check. Let’s talk about Kevin and Madison, who are now officially engaged. Yes, totally! And going back to your casting question, we even had a conversation in the room where we were like, “Does the actor (La Trice Harper) playing future Déja look too much like Lyric Ross?” But then we were like, “We don’t care, because it’s just such a fun ride for the audience to be on.” There’s something really comforting knowing that Randall and Beth’s family is still very much intact in the future. There will be new developments in Déja and Malik’s relationship by the end of the season. It’s certainly been something we’ve explored with Kevin. I think she’s experiencing that right now with Malik, but we’re also aware that some people end up with their first love and sometimes they don’t.
This is a show with a lot of storybook love in it. When might we find out more about her life?
In the future Déja is pregnant and not wearing a wedding ring.
We haven’t seen Kate and Toby’s kids, either. I will tell you it’s more than one person. My first thought-or hope-was that it’s Kate. Randall's tone indicates he's looking forward to welcoming whoever it is that's arriving. But it might be someone you don’t know as well. Of course, there’s only a few people left that we haven’t seen at Kevin’s future house so they can probably start to guess. They’ll be able to put a couple more pieces together of who might be in that car and who might be arriving. I think viewers will continue to get pieces of the puzzle of the future, and that will certainly be by the end of this season.