-How do you do that show, and I´m just saying this as a fan,
I get emotional watching. -Yeah.
-I could imagine you getting emotional doing the performance.
-We do. I think Chrissy and I --
Chrissy Metz, who plays Kate, my daughter --
[ Cheers and applause ]
-The whole cast is great. -The whole cast.
But I think Chrissy and I are probably the most emotional,
but I think Sterling gets the award for, like, best crier,
because he -- I feel like he´s literally
at the point as an actor who´s like,
"What eye do you want me you have to the dramatic, like,
single tear drop down my cheek from?"
Like, he´s that good. -He could really --
Yeah, he could direct what eyeball tears up.
-Oh, you want the right one?
-Oh, you want the left one now too?
-Ready, action.
-This one, then this one squirts out.
-Yes, he´s that good.
-It´s just -- I just think it´s so phenomenal but --
then I was talking to you back there, I´m like,
"You have to do things with, acting with babies,"
and I´m like, "How can you do it with one take
and you´re crying,"
and you said sometimes there´s fake babies.
-There are fake babies because there´s a new rule
with Homeland Security that anybody who works
has to have a photo ID,
so what mom is going to schlep her child,
her, like, newborn, to the DMV to get an ID?
[ Laughter ] -Babies don´t have IDs, no.
-Babies don´t have IDs, but you have to to work.
So oftentimes when we´re shooting with small babies,
they´re either baby dolls
or they have this one robotic baby.
It´s weird, guys.
-No, yeah, that would -- how can you act with a robot baby?
-And we were just shooting an episode where I have, like,
two very emotional scenes where I´m talking to a newborn,
like, in the hospital.
And I, like, go to put my hand on the robotic baby,
and it´s, like, vibrating and, like --
like, making these weird movements.
And you´re just sort of like, "Nope, this is a real child."
Like I´m trying my very level best.
-You really got to really act.
Yeah, you´re like, "I´m acting with a robot."
-To cry with a single Sterling tear.
-Never get the Sterling tear. -And the baby´s vibrating.
-Yeah, I´ll never do it.
-Also, gosh, he´s so funny, too, man.
-He´s so funny. I feel like this season,
he´s able to really showcase that side.
-Yeah, he cracks his jokes.
Can you explain what happened here?
Did you split your eye open?
-I did. -What happened?
-In the shower, like, a month ago, I was in the shower,
and I was bent over, and I just stood
right up into the shower door handle,
like right on my orbital bone. I know.
Blood everywhere.
And it was like three weeks before the Emmys.
And I had to work.
And, so, what they had to do was
I had those stitches for like four days,
and then they took them off so I could work.
Took them out.
And then they used, like, tattoo cover-up to cover-up the bruise,
but then we were in the middle of shooting an episode where
it´s the Halloween episode, and I play Cher,
so Cher wears a lot of makeup, so I got to, like --
and I was wearing, like, a purple outfit,
and so I got to, like, really just use the bruise
as, like, the base of the purple eye shadow.
It was great. [ Laughter ]
-Why not? You got to use that. Yeah.
-Yeah, thanks, Zoey. -Have you ever met Cher?
-I have not meant Cher, no.
-Me neither, but she´s super cool.
-Oh, she´s so cool. -Didn´t you get to meet --
You got to meet Dolly Parton? -Dolly Parton.
Yes, I mean, it was -- -That´s a legendary moment.
-It was kind of a mic-drop moment.
We were at a pre-Emmy party.
And she was standing talking to Allison Janney,
and I hate to name drop, but I worked with Allison,
and I was like, "Hi, Allison, so good to see you."
And she was like, "Hi, Mandy. Do you know Dolly?"
And I was like [ Stammers ]
[ Laughter ]
I about lost my marbles.
I was so excited.
And Milo was standing next to me,
and she was like, "You guys, I really like your show.
I watch your show, and it´s really great."
And I was like, "That´s -- I´m done.
I´m done." -And what more do you want?
Dolly gives a stamp of approval. -That´s a wrap.
-If Dolly Parton likes it, I´m in.
-And I´m done. I´m done. [ Cheers and applause ]
-I want to show everyone a clip.
Here is Mandy Moore in tonight´s episode of "This Is Us."
Take a look.
-I mean, I guess I could plan a night away from the kids,
but the whole romantic-date-night thing,
that´s always been Jack´s department.
-So now it´s your department.
Come on, just think of something.
Think of somewhere special to take him, do something.
Put on a pretty dress,
slap a big carefree smile on your face,
and just sweep your husband off his feet.
-What´s all this?
-I´m Jack Pearson-ing you.
It´s a term I made up for when
you sweep someone off their feet.
Come on, get in the car.
[ Cheers and applause ]
-Mandy Moore, "This Is Us."
Oh, my gosh. So good.