Jennifer Maas TV Business WriterSPOILER ALERT: Do not read if you have not yet watched “The Train,” they May 17 episode of “This Is Us.”The focus of Tuesday’s penultimate episode of “This Is Us” was on the long-dreaded death of Mandy Moore’s Rebecca Pearson and the tearjerking bedside goodbyes from her children Kate (Chrissy Metz), Randall (Sterling K.
Brown) and Kevin (Justin Hartley). But the hour managed to feature a few truly bright spots amid the undeniable heartbreak. One of those, aside from seeing Rebecca reunited with Jack (Milo Ventimiglia) in the afterlife in the final moments, was the return of Randall’s biological father William Hill (Ron Cephas Jones), or rather an imagined version of him.Rebecca saw William in her mind’e eye as her guide on the imaginary train in her mind, acting as the person who brought her back to the caboose in a nod to the start of the sixth and final season and the end of Rebecca’s metaphorical line.
Jones spoke with Variety about returning to “This Is Us” in his fan-favorite role for the NBC drama’s second-to-last episode and why William was the one to help Rebecca, the adoptive mother of his son, pass on in a peaceful manner following her battle with Alzheimer’s.What was it like coming back one more time so that William could lead Rebecca into the afterlife? The interesting part is that Mandy and I didn’t have many scenes together at all.
It was just projected. She did have scenes with the younger me, played by Jermel Nakia. We had one scene where she confronts me, where she find out I’m there living with Randall and she comes into the bedroom and lays down the law in regards to not letting him know that she knew.
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