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” character, Randall Pearson, arrived home from a trip to deal with his aging mother’s health, checked on his sleeping wife and daughters, and headed back down to the kitchen, only to catch someone breaking into his house in the act.
“I’d known throughout that the way Randall uses his sense of humor is often to sort of deflect, to sort of be accepted, to be liked, to fit in. There’s always a struggle to find comfort in his own skin. His sense of his own blackness is part of that, but then there’s this underlying anxiety that things will not work out.
What were you channeling for this very intense scene that also triggered Randall’s anxiety into a much more concerning place than the show has previously explored? Randall’s anxiety has manifested onscreen before, but never quite to the level in “A Hell of a Week: Part One.” How does learning how he experienced these symptoms so young, when he was learning to sleep in his own bed for the first time, change or inform Randall in new ways from how you’ve already been playing him for four years?
Darnell suggested therapy as an option. Historically it has been rare to see African American characters partaking in therapy, but Randall grew up in a family that did so much talking, so what conversations have you had with the writers about why Randall has rejected the idea all these years? They’re different. Brown is a bit more cantankerous during said episodes. There’s a level of tension in my body that I feel at the end of the day. There’s an exhale; you’re waiting — literally — to exhale at the end of the day. And I realize how fortunate I, Sterling, am, in that there have been times in my life where I have been particularly hard on myself.
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