The 'This Is Us' Cast Had the Best SAGs Moment
All throughout award season, the cast of This Is Us have celebrated Sterling K. Brown, who has collected just about every acting trophy available, including an Emmy, a Golden Globe, and a Critics' Choice Award.
But at the SAG Awards, the whole clan was finally recognized, and no one was more thrilled than Brown himself. Along with nabbing the honor for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series for his role as Randall Pearson, Brown also saw his entire cast share a win for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series.
“I told my cast, this is like a top five special night, in terms of these awards,” Brown explained backstage at the Shrine Auditorium, where he was joined onstage by a dozen members of his TV kin. “It's so nice to be able to do it with your family.”
Sharing the spotlight with Brown were his co-stars Mandy Moore, Milo Ventimiglia, Chrissy Metz, Justin Hartley, Susan Kelechi Watson, Chris Sullivan, John Huertas, Alexandra Breckinridge, Eris Baker, Faithe Herman, Hannah Zelle, Lonnie Chavis, Niles Fitch, Logan Shroyer, and Jermel Nakia.
“My cast has been so generous in celebrating me and this wonderful journey that I've been on, that tonight we get a chance to celebrate each other, we get a chance to celebrate together,” said Brown. “This is a dream.”
“We were all waiting for them to politely and deservedly say The Handmaid's Tale,” Brown said. “But when they called my network television drama, which none of these other shows look like - the fact that we get a chance to come, and we won? This is a very special night.”
Moore agreed she was gobsmacked by the opportunity to share the collective victory as a collective: “These experiences right now, with all of us together, we’re never in one room and so that’s what makes this all so much more special and celebratory,” she said. “We’re here together, celebrating the hard work that we all put in, and being recognized by our fellow actors. I can’t even put it into words. It’s mind-boggling.”
While many casts routinely suggest that they consider themselves to be as close as family, Brown told ELLE.com there’s an even more intimate bond among the This Is Us performers.
“It is like a family,” he explained. “It seems so clichéd, like, ‘Do they really love each other as much as it seems?’ The answer is yes! The joy is what I feel for my brother and sister, for my wife, for my mother and father, my mom who’s younger than me, and my dad who’s younger than me, these kids, my children, the younger versions of us.”
Brown admitted he gets caught up watching the performances from the actors who portray his character at younger ages. “When I watch the show and I see Lonnie or Niles do something, I’m feeling for Randall. I watch it as an audience member, same way as everybody else.”
“You can’t fake a relationship on-screen if you don’t have it off-screen,” he added. “I don’t know what the alchemy is, what [series creator] Dan Fogelman saw in all of us... but he brought together a group of wonderful thespians who happen to be even better individuals.”
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