“You might feel like you know the Big Three on This Is Us really, really well, but they don’t actually know you at all because they’re fictional and they can’t know you,” Barnes explains.
In fact, frequently, it can feel like we know fictional characters better than we do the people in real-world lives.
“In the real world… sometimes you feel sad about feeling sad, or guilty about feeling sad.
“If you look at the title of This Is Us, there’s an ‘Us.’