(And upon hearing this, Beth informedhimthat the couch would be his new bed).
Are we missing anything?
Hmmmm.. oh, right, Jacks brother, Nicky is the opposite of dead!
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One of our inspirations for Beth and even her dress and the way she looked was Judith Jamison.
Judith Jamison is, like, supreme.
But it was just this little glimpse.
Your mom must have been so happy.She was going to boycott the show if Beth died, right?
[Laughs] She was!
My mom said, Yes!
So, the upcoming episode that focuses on Beths backstory also will explain how she gets there?Yes.
A lot of people are like, Well, wait?
Is she Debbie Allen in the future?
There was that vibe.There was that, too, and Ill take it.
Thats what she always wanted to do.
So it made sense to me that she was running the dance studio.
Are you getting tons of questions about this?Yes, its the main question that people ask.
All I can say is marriage is hard.
Its rocky, at best.
Will we soon find out more about whether theyre still together?Yes.
Well find out more.
I can speak to this moment that theyre in, and theres no easy resolution.
Youre talking about the present-day situation, too?Mmm-hmmm.
What are fans saying to you?
Threatening things like, They better not break up!!!?Yes!
I saw a GIF where the writers get dragged.
They dont like that I put him on the couch.
Some people think he deserved to be on the couch.
You get both sides of the story.
People are like, You cant possibly bring us this far to break them up.
Did Randall deserve to be on the couch, in your opinion?I think so.
It feels like he earned a time-out.Yeah, I think so.
Theyve been through a lot.
How would you describe the resolution to whether or not theyre together in the future, though?
Emotional?I would describe it as emotional.
If I can describe it.
Everyone is somber in these flash-forwards.
Rebecca seems to be alive for now, so thats a big revelation….Right.
Oh, man!…
I would describe it as a completion in a way.
That comes to my mind.
And then theres Nicky…We find out that Nickys alive and people were like, What???
And then some people were like, I knew it!
[laughs] And then Tess has this beautiful moment.
So there was dealing with that and her expressing her thoughts right now, where shes at.
And just even sharing that with her family I thought was such a huge moment.
That was really beautiful.
And then, of course, finding about her.
Kate and Toby [finding out that] its a boy.
There were just so many.
So theres all these things but it didnt feel forced.
It just felt like all these storylines just happened to sort of explode in this.
And its such a great title: The Beginning is the End is the Beginning.
This is such a beautiful script.
How awkward would a reunion or a union with Nicky be?
How charged?I think that would be very charged.
Because you wonder why Jack kept him from the family.
So what is it going to be?
What would it be like?
And does Nicky know about Jacks family?
So all these pieces are just in the air.
And how much did Jack know about his now-alive brother?How much did Jack know????
This Is Usreturns Jan. 15.
