Jennifer Morrison on her This Is Us role: "This was not something that was just like offered to me. I had to fight for this"

Entertainment Weekly

Morrison reveals to EW that she wasn't directly offered her Season 4 role on the NBC drama. "By the way, this was not something that was just like offered to me," she says. "I had to fight for this. I love the show. I’m a fan of the show, and I’ve heard that there was a great guest arc coming for a strong female and (creator) Dan Fogelman auditions everybody. Everybody auditions for the show. My team came to me and they were like, 'Is this something that you would want enough that you’d be willing to read for?' And I said, 'Uhhh, yeah!'"