on larry king the mandy moore show has taken on a life of its own it's again something none of us expected because. i don't think you can really discount timing i think the world's was really hungry fresher like this right now found it unbelievably difficult to sort of start pushing back at the . project after project nothing coming to fruition until this is as. i did and there's one question in particular which is how to get closer and closer obsessed with. obsessed with that particular you know how we yes fall in the sun believe me i know pushy revealed to my. face so. his own house yeah

i do want to make more news guy i think maybe in the next year or so i know that all next on larry king now. larry king our guest today is golden globe nominated actress chart topping musician and award winning singer mandy moore mandy stars as rebecca on the brake job ensemble drama this is us the first season is available and b c dot com she's also the voice of rapunzel in disease tangled franchise including tangled a series on the disney channel and she's in a very different kind of project or sharks were called forty seven leaders down and that is in theaters now and i thank you for coming thank you first golden globe nomination right yes there you didn't get it but what was it like to get them out. i'm. pretty mind boggling we were sort of ten episodes in on the first season of

this is us so it was to say it was unexpected is an understatement none of us expected to get any sort of recognition and it's mind boggling you know you get an emmy made nomination with oh i don't know that it's only to my good acceptance speech because of all you've been through. that makes me nervous to think about this is. a massive hit for n.b.c. you get it what do you make of it. you know it's sort of came at a time in my life where i had done three failed like television pilots that hadn't gotten picked up and made it to series and i remember reading the script thinking. this is really special this feels different it feels really elevated in nuanced for network television but the audition process was much like any other audition process i threw my name in you know in the ring and then i didn't hear for probably

six weeks until they came back to us and said ok we want you to have like a chemistry read we're going to bring in a couple of men in a couple of women there was a chemistry read so i ended up going into a room and i read with milo ventimiglia who ended up getting cast as my husband jack but it was just he was the only man i read with there were several other like young gentlemen there didn't get to read with any of them so i felt like that was a fairly good sign because the intel that i had heard going in was that milo was the guy to beat so considering he was the only guy i read with i felt i felt pretty solid about it but the show is it has taken on a life of its own it's again something none of us expected and. it continues it's a bit. you know i think the writing is the purpose it's far in a way just like the most incredible project i've been lucky enough to be a part of but i don't think you can really discount timing i think the world was

really hungry for a show like this right now i think it's cathartic entertainment i think it's overwhelmingly hopeful and i think these characters are genuinely good people it's not sort of the anti heroes that we've been seeing in you know popular shows on cable and whatnot over the past couple of yards every week george well you know the conceit of the show is yes it's a big ensemble and smile and i play the parents so all of our stories are sort of told in flashback and then you see our kids grown up present day and sort of the challenges and obstacles that they're facing in their lives are white and i'm adopted blood yes we have an adopted child and i am the only actor that sort of exists in both worlds so i play the character from twenty three to sixty six so i play the character in the flashbacks and then i also play or present day so i have to go through and make up for sixty six four hours of prosthetics. just about every

episode i do look at sixty six pretty good and i only hope that i can change that what. i've already kind of you said before the show premier the dream was to find something that will allow me to be creative in flux my muscles but to do you live the quiet life i've been lucky enough to establish has that been true yes it has been why do you want to lead so much your private life i value my privacy and my personal life and i think although i started at a young age i started in the music industry when i was fifteen. my my career sort of followed a path that allowed me to sort still sort of have some anonymity of people let me be a normal teenager and that's kind of how it what i've grown accustomed to so i am. slightly nervous for life to change in any respect like i said i have the best of both worlds i'm able to do my job and people allow me that but i still can you know live a single no i have way friends a boyfriend has me in my business he is he is

a musician. so he understands when i want to dally. he doesn't know if in the valley. you've referred to the experience of making this is this is the greatest year of your life what has been it's the most creatively fulfilling job i've ever had it's the best job i've had being in this industry for. eighteen years now it's the best job i've ever had because. i think it's a confluence of the material the people i get to work with. the fact that it shoots in los angeles the reception that the project has received like i mean we have people coming up to us every day all of us we're like on a massive text chain the whole cast in our creator and we're constantly sharing stories of the people we meet in our day to day lives who who's really been affected by by the show in the writing and the stories that we're telling you.

she's a mother she is fiercely loving in protective of her family but she's not without faults and i love that she's not june cleaver she's fallible she's human and she's made. somewhat unpopular choices with some of the viewers definitely make sure to tell me that what can you tell me about season two nothing. i don't know as soon as i do are is every television shows successful or goes into a mode the season can't say a word they everything is so buttoned up i think with our show in particular there are so many timelines and stories that we're jumping around too and there's one question in particular which is how jack dies. he does die well it's not a life present day so we we go over the course of the season and we've gotten sort of hints and clues as to when it is but no idea of how it happens or why those are obsessed with there are really obsessed with that particular you know how we die

yes we all had to know if you think about it all of the core actors sort of had to know because you see them later well because we see him later but you know something that's fundamentally earth shattering and life changing that happened to the kids at some point in their lives is something they're going to carry way that is going to be god. i can't really say you've seen. you've seen the kids now they're about sixteen or seventeen when he passed away. see you soon you see that falling off a ladder some believe i know bush you revealed it tonight you guys pain so tragic thing is own house and she's that for because she goes to his job and he looked around fell off the ladder and i broke it all yeah her i. understand you went through a tough time before this is us did you described a soul crushing them i mean relatively speaking as an actor this is my job i mean

obviously we want to find projects that resonate with us and challenge us and i just i got married when i was twenty five. and sort of took you know a step back from from work and wanted to sort of take a break for the first time since i had started working in nest and have like a real life outside of the spotlight and i found it unbelievably difficult to sort of start the machine back up again and i had failed project after a failed project and nothing coming to fruition until this is us and when you think of quitting i did i did i sort of became convinced that maybe i should concentrate on music again maybe my time had come and gone maybe i you know should go back to school you know what i would study but it definitely had me thinking like maybe this is the universe telling me it's not it's not for me and when i was a marriage i'm going grocery the marriage ending was unexpected and very crushing you know there's no room no children but i definitely added to do your celebrity

young right i was fifteen good or bad that i mean no. i didn't i've got a tremendous experience i mean i made you very much the teenagers sean i started out in music i signed a record deal when i was fifteen you have a hit i did a quad i hit it was it it was called candy and that sort of started everything for me i signed a deal with m.t.v. to be an m.t.v. v.j. when that was still when m.t.v. still played music videos i. sort of segue into films and had a small part in a film called the princess diaries a garry marshall movie and then a walk to remember just the best so life definitely still took a turn an unexpected turn at fifteen i certainly i was singing the national anthem in orlando florida where i grew up and these two men who were like local songwriters at a studio heard me sing and approached me afterwards and said never had any desire

to go in a studio when record of original songs and be a recording artist and i just thought i'm not. really a bike i want to be on broadway that was made with the biggest goal a sort of ad but i loved about metal or if i could have emulated anybody as even now i wanted to i wanted to be on broadway and maybe two movies and perhaps make records but hadn't really thought that far ahead at fifty and if you say hello dolly having that i'm dying to hear you said that in twenty fifteen you're working on new music yet to release another album are you. i have been slowly but surely writing it's you know i feel so unbelievably creatively fulfilled with this is us and it certainly takes like a huge part of my time still want to be on broadway i do i do i want to be on broadway and i do want to make more music i think maybe in the next year or so i'll find my way back to the studio like writing i do i love songwriting i love writing

lyrics i haven't stopped doing that even though i haven't made a record in years nine years you're writer who performs to perform who writes i think i'm a performer who writes i would not consider myself to be a writer first and foremost but you like doing most of the formals now because yes i mean if somebody told me i had to make the choice between music and acting i find it really difficult and the great thing about this is us is my character her back story is involved in music so i get to sing on the show as well it's great it's the best of both worlds will be right but with maybe more stay with. the hawks founded by three young americans love their country but we have to constantly question our government watching the hawks brings the stories the good

points. we dig a little deeper we get the stories there i want to. is afraid to touch is afraid to talk about because they don't want to upset their corporate sponsors or going to run their government access now is the time more than ever we need to question more . we're in this post truth world or world words have to matter again about educating people and giving them contacts instead of telling them what to think dialogue is far more valuable than to be. value rather. be agile. be what a good look at. their own so nerd golden families would love to be

a decorator tomorrow so it's all good the balls are going to be thrown away. ya go. up there with. the dead to get up but. for the. girl is the daughter everybody wants school and the people you're living your character does like your book. back with mandy well one thing i can tell you you will learn how jack died in the first episode of season two of season two that's what we've been told first episode of season two. focus on the latter. forty seven meters down what is that it is an underwater thriller and movie takes place

ninety five percent underwater when did you shoot it two years ago before this is us underwater yes we shot it in a tank in london and a tank in the dominican republic. i know it's a horrible it's a thriller it's an underwater survival tale there happens you. myself and my sister played by claire holt decided to go cage diving in a moment of spontaneity like diving with sharks on a vacation in mexico and the cage breaks free from the bottom of the boat and falls one hundred fifty feet down to the bottom of the ocean so it's sort of a race against the clock to make it back out of you and the shark well we're in shark infested waters but what i find far more compelling and scarier is the prospect of drowning they only have an hour's worth of air so they have to get their find their way out of the cage and back up to the surface without getting the bends without getting attacked by a shark and with the number filming. there wasn't too much danger because we were

shooting in a tank so we were only twenty feet underwater but nobody had ever made an movie like this before that many days consecutively underwater so no one really knew the repercussions that was going to happen to us as actors like if we needed to like with all of the equalising and you're still you know that's that's eight hours a day for about seven weeks is that a lot of them is for i have it's it's pretty scary and even if we knew what was coming but we still jumped a few times how did you handle being on the war ghoul. good swimmer i were worth were pretty decent swimmers but we didn't really have any dive training which was the craziest part we did a tiny bit of like training in a pool and then we went and did two open ocean dives the next day and that was it there like movie you're ready you're ready to go and stand or whatever it is you know in this movie again it's all there's claire and i both are wearing full face mask so we're not with the regular regulators and just sort of has been told so we

can speak yes but only she and i could communicate with each other none of the crew had those same masks they had the regular regulator so we sort of had to develop almost like a sign language with them while she was. just it's who you are matthew modine plays the captain of the boat oh i love him he's the best but we were only with him for a week because like i said most of it was underwater ok we play a little game of if you only knew the movies forty seven meters down yes our childhood celebrity crush joey mcintyre new kids on the block i had his barbie doll and everything and then i met him years later and told him i had a huge crush on him and he seemed a little bit freaked out by that she good tell him how really have any secret talent strangest fan encounter i think it's strange whenever somebody finds your address and send you like i know how to get denied oh no not a lot of i just moved i haven't even moved into my house yet and i had a stack of mail from some fan in italy there must be someplace that they think find

everything on the internet now what's your guilty pleasure really have to kill to pleasure i'm terrible at these questions and do your normal i'm normal who would do trade places with for day i would trade places with michelle obama when she was the first lady just i have so much admiration for a but i mean i just would love to see what a day in her life were going to leave us i bet what your chosen vice is coffee a vice you know ok it's not a vice it is no it is a great it's a vice something you wish you a better adams dancing best advice you've ever gotten. my dad always told me when in doubt don't and i listened to that worst advice you've ever gotten for them or gotten about something people get wrong about you you know what i don't really feel misunderstood i feel like i've always sort of presented myself as accurately as possible and i feel like people have

a pretty accurate sense of why am i don't know what do you think we should be paying more attention to. oh that's a loaded question i don't know so much he's free to say i'm not afraid to say it is that whenever we don't hold back you know not i a whole can of worms and i can't even speak eloquently but i mean i think i think we definitely need to be paying attention to climate change more think we need to have more of an open dialogue jim writes something you long believed to be true and realize wasn't the old adage nice guys finish last i used to believe that that was true but now we don't leave your devotion to baseball managers was first when there was a bit really it is said about him he's a nice guy and nice guys finish last tell me something people don't know about you . that people don't know about me i feel like a secret man be a credit to the secret to you and the entire internet. i'm

terrible at this i feel like people know i'm a pretty open book i tell you what they don't know about yet i'll jog one now they do the latter the day i'm louder than jack all times during the children which is involved it is involved and the forthcoming movie to forty seven meters out all that's out is out now it's out now if people want to see before gives us some social media question some politics you tweeted your support for sen kemal iris yes i'm a big fan of hers i voted for her you think she should be present i don't know if like it's a little early for that matter little early letter letter have heard you know term in the senate does it mean you are not a fan of our president. who has another loaded question at nine not a fan and a fan more you want to climate change to climate change in facts yes i'm not a fan are you therefore pessimistic. i do not pessimistic because i feel like

a good segment of the population especially young people have really been activated and were engaged in a way that maybe you wouldn't have been had the election gone another way. so i feel i feel very hopeful you grew up in orlando and i did were dead too he's an airline pilot for american airlines. so you get to fly and i get to fly i did when i was a kid now it's all hard to have to fly stand were out does he fly a log he flies out of l.a. now and he flies tokyo and sydney and london those are his big fight. big planes big planes have you flown with him i haven't never never been on a plane we know but one day because when we were growing up he flew a lot to like south and latin america and we were in school and wasn't really like vacation destinations for us so one day i'll fly with him you have to worry about him now never he is the best at what he does some social media questions jaywalker

tweets your character's daughter struggles with body issues bullying how have you handled so she's shoes and beauty obsessed hollywood it's a very good question. you know i honestly have never felt pressure to be anybody other than myself no one's ever told me i needed to lose weight or any of it to look a certain way or dress a certain way and me why would they tell you you look perfect well you're very kind and i i think i'm a little outside the norm of what the typical like hollywood sort of body standard is but no one's ever told me otherwise and i'm comfortable in my skin and so my experience is always been overwhelmingly positive i get the knocks what was your favorite memory while working on a war to remember that was a movie i made when i was sixteen. it was my first leading role everything about that film was so special who is in it shane west's he played the male lead opposite me and it's

a movie we just celebrated like the fifteenth anniversary of it of its release but it's a movie that continues to like live on in the guys to the younger generations have discovered it and loved it and we had no idea it would have that sort of impact when we were making it molly. do you miss singing i do miss singing but i get to do it on this is us so with that part of my life feels say shaded by the show madge game sixty seven i asked which of your movies was your favorite dork on. i was that's a good question problem between this little indie movie called saved because it had a lot of young people and it was really cervical sarcastic and fun and funny and then i did this sort of romantic comedy with diane keaton called because i said so and i love dying and so much great she is the best so that was great kauto odor and what is the most of truck do thing you find in a man. confidence and honesty terry

friend terry francona is is the manager. used to manage a clean room be an incident really here i don't know but god a moment it's very frankly it's another terry and he as are you and our stewards flamm. takes place in pittsburgh well then maybe it's him we are steelers fans we've all sort of become steelers fans i didn't grow up in like a sports household you said you shoot no way we should los angeles but the show takes place in pittsburgh and the family are huge steelers fans and we've had a couple of episodes where the steelers have factored in so my when i went and announced the fourth round draft pick recently and it was really so much fun that you know why they settled on making a pittsburgh because our creator grew up there. so he has very fond memories of pittsburgh and it's a lovely town i'd never been before i lost a lovely time it's more detail terrible you know smoke sure there are so many what's next you got this is us going got i don't have any boyfriend

a friend of the president lays a movie idea diving into thank you yeah life is good i have no complaints we go back to work in about a month so i'm i'm ready to sort of dive back in. you seen the scripts already not yet hopefully this week i've been told that we'll go over and start again but generally dies early we do and we've been told that that will be addressed in the first episode but we don't really know what happens throughout the course of the season so i'm anxious to find out some of the plot points and storylines thank you so much make you a dollar thanks to my guest mandy moore the entire first season of this is us is available on n.b.c. dot com and forty seven meters down is in theaters now and as always you can find me on twitter with things i'll see you next on.

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