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The Partnership: Dan Fogelman And Sterling K. Brown Talk Shailene Woodley’s “Very Interesting Profession” & More For ‘Paradise’ Season 2


The Partnership: Dan Fogelman and Sterling K. Brown on 'Paradise'; details of Shailene Woodley's "very interesting profession" in Season 2

Since their first collaboration began almost a decade ago with Fogelman’s hit series This Is Us, the same-age duo have remained friends, having been simultaneously launched into serious success and bonded by its six-season run. Fogelman: No, but in that first draft of that final episode where she’s really going bad, and I had, in my mind’s eye, been going, “Have we pushed it too far?” And when Sterling says it to me, I go back to the writers and I’m like, “Hey, let’s take a look and just make sure a couple of these jokes aren’t [too much]. Similarly, when the fires happened, we live in the valley and we weren’t directly affected, but as it was creeping a little closer, we had that thing of, “Let’s pack up sh*t and get ready.” I’ve got a young kid and in this current day and age, there’s not that much that has import anymore, because it’s all kind of digital.

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