This Is Us (TV Series)

The Game Plan (2016)

Justin Hartley: Kevin Pearson

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• Kevin Pearson : I think I scared you before. All that talk of ghosts and... dying... all that adult stuff we were reading about. That's some pretty confusing adult stuff. So, uhh, I thought I'd come up here, show you my painting, tell you what I think my play's about because I was thinking that it might make us all feel a little bit better. But you've gotta promise not to make fun of me, OK? So, uhm... yeah, I painted this because I felt like the play was about life, you know, and life is full of color and we each get to come along and we add our own color to the painting, you know? And even though it's not very big - - the painting - - you sort of have to figure that it goes on forever, you know, in each direction? So, like, to infinity, you know. 'Cause that's kinda like life. It's really crazy, if you think about it, that a hundred years ago some guy that I never met came to this country with a suitcase. He has a son, who has a son, who has me. So at first when I was painting I was thinking, you know, maybe that was that guy's part of the painting and then down here that's my part of the painting. And then I started to think... well... what if we're all in the painting... everywhere? And what if we're in the painting before we're born? What if we're in it after we die? And these colors that we keep adding, they just keep getting added on top of one another, 'til eventually we're not even different colors anymore. We're just... one thing. One painting. My dad, he's not with us anymore. He's not alive... but he's with us. He's with me every day. It all just sort of fits somehow, even if you don't understand how yet. People will die in our lives - - people that we love. In the future. Maybe tomorrow. Maybe years from now. I mean, it's kind of beautiful, right, if you think about it, the fact that just because someone dies, just because you can't see them or talk to them anymore, it doesn't mean they're not still in the painting. I think maybe that's the point of the whole thing. There's no dying. There's no 'You' or 'Me' or 'Them.' It's just 'Us.' And this sloppy, wild, colorful, magical thing that has no beginning, has no end, it's right here. I think it's us.

• William Hill : You do that a lot.

  Kevin : I do what a lot?

  William Hill : Doubt yourself. You were very good, Kevin. On that show.

  Kevin : You watched "The Man-ny"?

  William Hill : Before I came here, I had one old television, got three channels. I really liked that program. And I remember thinking "he's very talented".