Mandy Moore Takes Us Back
Mandy Moore Takes Us Back
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00:00Hey, Us Weekly, it's Mandy Moore, and I'm taking us back.
00:04Oh, take us back to the Princess Diaries premiere with Annie Hathaway.
00:12She looks like a movie star.
00:14I'm in some really weird acid-washed, low-cut denim suit.
00:21This low-rise situation, oof, is a trend I know that's back with all the kids, but definitely
00:29not my cup of tea.
00:30I mean, I guess I rocked it at 16, but yeah, it's just, like, compared to her where she
00:35looks like a full movie star with, like, this Audrey Hepburn dress and, like, necklace.
00:40We just look like we're going to very different events.
00:42Okay, take us back to the MTV Video Music Awards.
00:47Oh, what is this?
00:50I believe it was a suede pant, like a cream suede pant with gold piping.
00:58A really high beige patent leather boot, a white tank top with, like, some sort of
01:07ruffled shirt over it that's kind of falling off my shoulders a little bit.
01:11I would definitely not wear this today.
01:14This would be a hard pass.
01:15It was very early days.
01:17It was at Radio City Music Hall.
01:19I was just like, look, look at that smile.
01:21I was just, like, radiating excitement to be there.
01:24Totally, I'm like, how did I end up here?
01:26Okay, taking us back to the Kandy Music Video.
01:30Ooh.
01:32I remember being so excited to go through, like, the hair, makeup, wardrobe process.
01:37Like, I'd never been in glam before.
01:40I don't remember who came up with the ridiculous, like, spiky hairdo with the little pieces
01:46coming in the front.
01:47Again, it felt very of the moment.
01:49I do remember this product placement of this CD player with, like, the strap.
01:55It was called The Psyche, and I was on a Sony label, and this was, like, a Sony Discman.
02:03So they, like, had this weird product placement fused into the music video, which made absolutely
02:09no sense.
02:10But I just, I didn't know what I was doing, but I had so, like, I just was elated.
02:16It's, like, so excited to be there, so excited to fake drive a car, that I had a love interest
02:22in the music video.
02:23Like, all of it was just so new to me.
02:26Okay, so take us back to the first day on This Is Us and the last day on This Is Us.
02:33I remember Milo and I shot all of our stuff for the pilot for the first episode of the
02:41show first, before anybody else, and we only shot for, like, two days, and I just remember
02:47being, like, loving the script so much and so hopeful that the show would move forward
02:53and we would get to do more of it.
02:55But obviously, I had no idea, like, you just read that one script, so you have no idea
03:00where the show could possibly go.
03:01So I had no idea how expansive a world it would be.
03:05That last scene between Milo and I was so emotional, so hard to not cry, so hard to
03:13not, like, recognize, like, the gravity of the moment of, like, oh, this chapter in our
03:17life is closing.
03:18I was also pregnant and nobody knew, so I was, like, there was just so much going on,
03:22which made, I think, me even more emotional.
03:24Ah, take us back to a walk to remember.
03:28Oh, my gosh.
03:29I mean, I look at that and I'm, like, that little girl had no idea what she was doing.
03:36And sweet Shane was, like, such a great caretaker, because, you know, he was quite, he was five,
03:42six, seven years older than me and was, like, on a TV show and had done a bunch of movies
03:47and I had never done anything.
03:49And so I really leaned on him to, like, show me how to film a movie and what being on a
03:56set was like.
03:57And he was also just such a great partner.
03:59He lives in Nashville now, and I tried to see him last time I was there, but our paths
04:04didn't cross.
04:05But, like, I have such affection for him.
04:08I love him deeply, and I feel like this experience will forever cement us in each other's lives.
04:14I had read the original, the book by Nicholas Sparks, and I loved it so much.
04:18And so I felt very connected to, like, the source material and the story that we were
04:23telling.
04:24And also I think because I was so young and it was my first experience, like, really,
04:29truly making a movie.
04:31We were filming it in North Carolina.
04:32Like, I was away from home.
04:34I felt like that camp experience in a way where, you know, when it was done, you were
04:39just, I was so devastated.
04:40Like, ugh, the bubble burst.
04:42Like, it's over, yeah.
04:43And so I felt very, like, wrapped up in the experience of making the movie, for sure.
04:49Okay, take us back to the day that I met my husband.
04:53We met because we had mutual friends, and I heard a song of his band's on the radio,
05:00very old school, to make a full circle.
05:02And I looked them up afterwards.
05:04Not what they look like, but I looked up their music and was like, oh, this is great.
05:09And I Instagrammed about it.
05:12But before you could, like, tag people or DMs or any of that, but somehow our mutual
05:17friend alerted him to that.
05:19And then he sent a really kind and innocuous email from his manager to my manager, and
05:26it got to me.
05:27And we just started corresponding that way.
05:29And, God, this feels so long ago.
05:32It's like pre-children and pre-COVID.
05:35And then we started corresponding, and we met at a sushi restaurant a couple days later
05:41and had one of those, like, epic four-hour meals where, like, the restaurant closed around
05:45you.
05:46And that was it.
05:47We've been together ever since.