Susan Kelechi Watson

thumb Susan Kelechi Watson (born November 11, 1981) is an American actress. She is known for her work on the television show Louie and for her role as Beth Pearson in This Is Us. Quotes I feel really great. I love the show so much. I love the process, and there was such a process to this. It started off as a whole different play. They had commissioned it down in DC. Just to give you an idea of how different it was, Aisha was nine months pregnant when the play was first shown. And her water broke at the big dinner scene. It changed everything. So much had to change while we were doing it, but it deepened. More backstory came into it, and other things developed. Less of the ghost off-stage happened. We had time to really sit with the play and mine it and hear what it really wanted to be. And then this is kind of the result. So I’m really proud of it. Yeah. Because you have Millennials and then Gen Zers, and their perspectives are so different at this stage. It’s interesting because her perspective is so open. I think it’s advocating to see gentrification from different perspectives. That’s the main thing to me. There’s so many different ways to see that argument within one community. What happens when this is not a Black-white conversation? When it’s amongst Black people, there’s all these different conversations within that. I hope they come away connected to the characters, to tell you the truth. I really do. I hope they feel a strong connection with the four of us. And also come away thinking about gentrification and the effects of it on people– how to come into a space and not try to change the culture of it. Even though you want to upgrade it to maybe make it a nicer or more beautiful neighborhood, you don’t have to erase the culture that was there. I think that’s really important. Susan Kelechi Watson Takes Us Behind the Scenes of the Gentrification Drama Good Bones;By Emma Stout on October 22, 2024 External links Category:Actresses from New York City Category:Living people Category:1981 births Category:Women born in the 1980s Category:New York University alumni Category:African Americans