This Is Us Star Logan Shroyer Teases Season Finale in One Word

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First Justin Hartley, and then Parker Bates, and now we welcome the 3rd version of Kevin Pearson the Young Hollywood Studio, Logan Shroyer, who plays the 17-year-old version of the Pearson sibling on NBC's "This Is Us"! He tells us what it's like collaborating on the character with Justin, plus he reveals his picks for dream on-camera dad, BFF, and crush, and teases the Season 2 finale!
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Welcome to Young Hollywood, guys. I am hanging out today with Logan Shroyer. What's up? Great to see you.
Hey.
Welcome to studio.
Thank you.
It's your first time here.
It is.
What are your thoughts?
It's great.
You like your comfortable couch?
I love it. Yeah. I'm kind of going to fall asleep right now, it's really comfortable.
We recently had the kids, the younger kids on This Is Us in studio.
Yes, yes, yes, yes.
They are so energetic.
Oh yeah. They're rife. Yeah. I love their life.
I love the show. I love how close every time I, you know, meet someone from the cast, I love how close I can tell everybody from the show.
Yeah. It's hard not to bond, honestly, with the type of scripts that we have. But yeah.
Let's talk a little bit about your other interests too because I believe you're very musical.
I can play guitar. I can do guitar really well. But yeah.
How long have you been playing guitar?
I've been playing guitar for a long time. I could take it more seriously and I could be better, but I think my dad got me in lessons when I was like 10.
Really?
Yeah. I've been playing for a really long time.
Do you still play today?
Yeah, totally.
Do you have any other hidden talents?
I'm a surfer. I was I my It's so funny. So I went to high school at Redondo Union. And we have a surf team.
Awesome.
at my high school. So I was on the surf team.
You have the surfer hair.
Thank you.
So I I can I can tell that. Yeah.
Surfing and then ping-pong. Pretty good at ping-pong.
Awesome.
We always had a ping-pong table at my house and my dad was freaking killing us. I could never beat him still, but yeah, I don't know.
Did you get any time before filming started to sit down with Parker? Oh. So, little Kevin, and then also big Kevin, Justin.
I never sat down with Parker. Um, but I have sat down with Justin. We've just kind of like talked about it. What's great about the show is like everybody really does give their space. Um, like everybody's just very, very respectful, you know, cuz cuz someone like Justin could give like line readings and sort of but he was like, "You know what, man? It's your character too, but let's talk about like the heart of Kevin and kind of cuz there's a lot Kevin's very complicated, so it's like hard to tell in
He's complicated.
But there's a lot of great Yeah, there's a lot of great um parallels with the writing that sort of makes it more seamless like that.
I heard you had only one audition. Is that right?
Yeah, it was crazy. I mean, it didn't feel like it didn't feel like some sort of a special thing like this was it. It was just like a last minute kind of like audition and then, okay, you booked it.
Did you know how big this show was going to be going in? Did you have a feeling or was it just like a normal audition and you were walking in and then it just happened?
I had no idea. I knew the script was good, which is really, I mean, that was why I was excited about it. So I knew, okay, good script. This is awesome.
So, obviously the show has had a big return spoiler spoiler alert for anybody that hasn't kept up with it yet, but obviously Jack in the show, he dies. That's been the heart throb of everything thus far. Did you know that that was going to happen or at what point during filming did you realize that? And did you freak out?
Um, we knew we knew for a while that he was going to die but we didn't know how and like when we were sat down and told Actually, we weren't even really sat down and told it's almost like
Did you just read it?
No, well, that usually if you're not in the the scene it's omitted from the script. So even like stuff with the teenage ones, I mean, the older cast, they know everything. Right. But it's omitted from all the scripts that everyone gets. So like Mandy screaming at the end when the house is burned, like that was not in the script. It was like omitted for secrecy.
Well, and like you said, we don't want to give any spoilers away, but the finale is approaching. If you could give the finale one word. Oh, wow. What would it be?
I'm going to do like a hyphen word. I'm going to say happy cry. Happy
This whole show is happy cry.
Yeah, yeah. No, like it's it's going to be it's going to be sad. It's going to be sad, but I think that there's going to be a lot of like joyous crying in this one instead of sort of the last finale was a little bit more of like harsh ending, you know, hard cut throat. Uh this one's really good. I I love this one.
So to toss out the interview I have a question for you. I'm going to ask three different questions and you have to tell me if there's a person that you think of with the question. So, if you had to choose an on camera love interest, an on camera BFF, and an on camera new dad. An okay. Who would you choose? So dad, BFF, and on camera crush.
Um, I'm going to just be basic. I think this is probably like most people's answers. Love interest Margot Robbie. I'm sorry.
Got it. Got it. Got it.
Best friend. My real best friend should just get these rolls, honestly, Patrick. Yeah, yeah.
His best friend's hanging out over here.
Yeah, yeah. And um is is the age right for Leo to be my dad, Leonardo DiCaprio? Would that work?
Let's say it. Let's say it. Let's just put that out there. Let's do it. Wait, but I'm Leonardo DiCaprio and Margot Robbie. But Margot Robbie is your love interest.
Yeah, that doesn't work. No, no, no, that doesn't work. We have to switch that up.
Okay. All right, well, we'll work on that. Thank you so much for hanging out. Great to meet you and welcome in.
Thank you. Yeah. Thank you very much. I loved it.
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PEOPLE MENTIONED
- Logan Shroyer
Featured guest, actor playing Kevin Pearson
- Justin Hartley
Plays older Kevin Pearson, collaborated with Logan
- Parker Bates
Plays younger Kevin Pearson
- Jack
Character from 'This Is Us' whose death is discussed
- Mandy
Mentioned in the context of the house fire scene in 'This Is Us'
- Margot Robbie
Named as a dream on-camera love interest
- Patrick
Logan's real-life best friend
- Leonardo DiCaprio
Named as a dream on-camera dad
FAQ
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Did Logan Shroyer know how big 'This Is Us' would become when he auditioned?+
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