Meet the Hosts of That Was Us: Sterling K. Brown, Mandy Moore, and Chris Sullivan

Six years after This Is Us ended, its three biggest stars sat back down together, and this time there's no script. That Was Us has Sterling K. Brown, Mandy Moore, and Chris Sullivan rewatching their own show episode by episode, bringing in guests from the cast and crew, and talking through the same themes that made This Is Us a phenomenon in the first place: family, grief, parenthood, and what it means to actually show up for the people you love. New episodes drop every Tuesday, a day earlier on Hulu, and the show is produced by Rabbit Grin Productions with music from Taylor Goldsmith and Griffin Goldsmith.

Sterling K. Brown

Brown played Randall Pearson for all six seasons of This Is Us, from 2016 to 2022, and won three Primetime Emmys for it, a run that put him in rare company for a network drama performance. Since then he's kept working steadily, with credits including American Fiction and Black Panther. On the podcast, he's the host with the most direct throughline to the show's most personal material. In Marilyn's Funeral, the episode centered on Jack saying goodbye to his mother, Brown brings in his own memories of staying up late with his own mom, and talks about what it means to be fully present with people you love. That's not a stretch from his character's arc, either. Randall Pearson spent six seasons wrestling with exactly that question, and it's clear Brown has real things to say about it beyond the script.

Mandy Moore

Moore is a singer-songwriter and actress who built a music career on hits like "Candy" and "I Wanna Be with You" before taking on Rebecca Pearson, the Pearson family matriarch, across all six seasons of This Is Us. On That Was Us, she's part of the trio digging into episodes like Chat Was Us: Success, where the three of them talk through how their own definitions of success have shifted over the years, from external milestones to something closer to personal fulfillment. Given that she built one career in music before building a second one in television, that's a question she's presumably had to answer more than once in real life.

Chris Sullivan

Sullivan played Toby Damon, Kate Pearson's husband, for the full run of This Is Us, earning two Emmy nominations for Outstanding Supporting Actor along the way. Toby was often the show's comic relief valve inside heavier storylines, and Sullivan brings a similar energy to the podcast, whether he's swapping stories in Chat Was Us: Caregiving or sitting in on a director's-chair conversation like the recent episode with Chris Koch, where the crew and a guest co-host go behind the scenes on some of the show's most emotional episodes.

The three of them together

What makes That Was Us work is that these aren't three actors doing press for an old show. Brown, Moore, and Sullivan spent years playing a television family, and the podcast makes it obvious that some of that closeness carried over off-screen. The "Chat Was Us" theme episodes, built around topics like success, caregiving, and romantic love, only work because the three of them are willing to get personal rather than just recap plot. They bring in real guests, from directors to cinematographers to caregiving advocates, and the show leans into the same instinct This Is Us had: use one specific story to open up a much bigger conversation. Six seasons of playing a family that leaned on each other clearly left a mark, because that's exactly how they talk to each other now.

And the three of them are still showing up for it every week. That Was Us remains active and on schedule, with its most recent episode dropping September 1, 2026. If you're just discovering the show, you're catching it mid-run, with a new one arriving right on time.