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Mandy Moore Says Playing Rebecca on 'This Is Us' Helped Prepare Her for Motherhood

She credits the role with shaping her parenting outlook during a new rewatch podcast.

Overview

  • In a new PEOPLE interview, Moore says portraying a TV mom informed how she approaches parenting in real life.
  • Rewatching early seasons now makes her laugh, as she recalls not even knowing how to change a diaper at the time.
  • Moore shares three children with husband Taylor Goldsmith: sons August “Gus” Harrison and Oscar “Ozzie” Bennett, and daughter Louise “Lou” Everett.
  • She co-hosts the This Is Us rewatch podcast That Was Us with Sterling K. Brown and Chris Sullivan, and says revisiting episodes reveals forgotten plot points.
  • Moore has a public partnership with the anti-RSV medication Beyfortus.