‘This Is Us’: Milo Ventimiglia on Jack’s Tearjerking Breakdown and Approaching His ‘True End’ in Series Finale
variety.comJennifer Maas TV Business WriterSPOILER ALERT: Do not read if you have not yet watched “Don’t Let Me Keep You,” Tuesday’s episode of “This Is Us.”While there are many loose ends that “This Is Us” still has left to tie up for fans almost halfway through its sixth and final season, the fate of Milo Ventimiglia’s Jack Pearson has been a firm knot for years now.
However, this week’s episode of the NBC family drama revealed one heartbreaking still-untold story about the now-deceased family patriarch: How his own mother, whom he had moved to Ohio help her escape his abusive father, died before he ever ever got to really know her.“Looking at Jack’s arc from Season 1 to 2 to 3, there’s a lot that we’re learning about him, good and bad,” Ventimiglia told Variety ahead of Tuesday’s episode of “This Is Us,” titled “Don’t Let Me Keep You.” “The things that he struggles with, the things that he’s really great at, the father he is, the husband he is, the individual.
But then when we got into Seasons 4 and 5, Jack, by way of being dead, just kind of became very supporting in other people’s storylines.
There wasn’t much that we could learn about Jack. So the fact that we kind of forgot that he had gotten his mom out of the house in Pittsburgh and moved her to Ohio to go live with her cousin Debby — the fact that we, the audience, had forgotten about all that, I think it’s wonderful to be reminded that there was still ongoing life for Jack.” During the hour, Jack learns that his mother, Marilyn (Laura Niemi), has died suddenly of an aneurysm, and decides to go out to Ohio to handle the funeral arrangements with her cousin Debby (Camryn Manheim).
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