Jennifer C. Holmes didn’t know she was playing Randall’s mom, Laurel, when she was first cast on This Is Us in 2016. “It was kept a secret,” she tells StyleCaster. “First off, her name wasn’t Laurel. It was ‘Young Woman.’ The script said, ‘Dangerous woman, sitting on a bus.’ On drugs is another way to put it. ‘Not in her right mind, sitting on a bus, writing in a journal.’”
Though Holmes understands fans who are upset that Randall will never meet his birth mother, she sees the silver lining in what Laurel’s life will remind Randall and viewers of. Ahead, Holmes talked to StyleCaster about why Laurel never found Randall, how Randall’s birth mother is similar to his adoptive mother, Rebecca, and what Randall’s life will be like now that he knows what happened to his birth mother.On her reaction to learning that Laurel was alive “I read the script, and I screamed. It said, ‘Laurel gasps for air. Laurel is alive!’ That was the last page of the script. I threw the script. I jumped up and down. It was like a scary movie to me.
On why Laurel doesn’t find Randall “There are roadblocks that keep her from looking for Randall. Life happens. She’s hit with these roadblocks, and now she has to work her way out of it. I’m getting emotional talking about it because she wanted so desperately to look for Randall, but she was stopped with these roadblocks. She was taken to the hospital and to prison. And then there’s the fear and the shame that she felt as a mother.
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