‘This Is Us’ Star Justin Hartley Previews Rebecca’s ‘Heartbreaking’ Deterioration, Kevin Mirroring Jack in Parenting Nicky

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Jennifer Maas TV Business WriterSPOLER ALERT: Do not read if you have not watched “The Night Before the Wedding,” the April 26 episode of “This Is Us.”There are four episodes left of “This Is Us” following Tuesday’s installment, which gave Pearson fans the long-awaited answer to the question of who is Kevin (Justin Hartley) going to marry without actually showing us who Kevin marries.

The episode ended with the romantic reunion of high-school-sweethearts-turned-divorced-couple Kevin and Sophie (Alexandra Breckenridge) at Kate’s (Chrissy Metz) second wedding, and cheers from the whole family over those two crazy kids finally figuring it out, with the heavy implication (confirmed by Hartley and Breckenridge) it will result in them tying the knot for good.

Assisting in Kevin and Sophie finding their way back to each after many false starts and years apart was the aging and Alzheimer’s-afflicted Rebecca (Mandy Moore).

Kevin’s mother was unknowingly reminding and supporting him and Sophie at different points during the wedding weekend, because her disease has her thinking Kevin is Jack (Milo Ventimiglia) and that Sophie was still a young adult, of how Kevin and Sophie were right for each other at the wrong time in their 20s.Variety spoke with Hartley about Rebecca’s “heartbreaking” deterioration heading into the final four episodes of “This Is Us,” as well as how Kevin will emulate his father in his parenting of Nicky, who apparently takes after Kevin quite a bit.Kate, Kevin and Randall (Sterling K.