'This Is Us' Stars on Latest Twist: 'I'm Rooting for Jack and Rebecca'
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Mandy Moore and Milo Ventimiglia share their thoughts on what happens to their characters after the gut-punching ending in the second episode.

AceShowbiz - "This Is Us" just topped itself by pulling another shocking twist in the end of the second episode. Following the reveal that Jack (Milo Ventimiglia) and Rebecca (Mandy Moore) are the parents of the Big Three a.k.a. Kate (Chrissy Metz), Kevin (Justin Hartley) and Randall (Sterling K. Brown) in the first episode, the second episode flashed back to the time the couple struggled to raise their 8-year-old children.

[SPOILER ALERT!] Jack turned to alcohol, but his best friend Miguel (Jon Huertas) reminded him that he was so blessed with his great wife. Jack then sobered up and resolved to be more present in the marriage and in the family. But at the end of the episode, in the scene set years in the future, one of Randall's children welcomed their grandma and grandpa who are Rebecca and Miguel, not Jack.

This shocking reveal leaves us with so many questions and the stars know exactly how viewers would feel about this. "It's a reveal that asks so many questions that are left to be discovered," Ventimiglia tells EW, "The journey of all of this is the greater fun than the actual outcome, like on another show where [you ask], 'Are they all dead? Are they all alive? What's the thing?' "

He continues, "But this - you know that in the present day, Rebecca ends up with Miguel. Wow. When did all that happen? When did they fall in love? Have they always been in love or was there something that happened?"

Moore adds, "Were they divorced? Did they get divorced? Did he die? You just don't know the trajectory of what their relationship was. It's very much open-ended, even though that's a big reveal. It's like... uuuuuhhhhhhhhh. There are so many question marks."

The singer/actress admits she was as shocked as everyone is when she discovered that Rebecca ends up with Miguel, not Jack. "The fact that she would be with somebody else... feels like a betrayal in some way," she says, before adding, "In my mind I don't feel like it is. I don't know the answer to that definitively at this point."

She continues, "I'm rooting for Jack and Rebecca. I want to know their story, I want to know where that disconnect is, because I just love them so much from the first episode. I'm anxious to see where they go, what this journey is... And I'm excited, too, that we're not married to having that storyline in any sort of real time, because we're jumping around."

Though so, Moore has an idea about what may happen to the couple. "I think that their marriage definitely hits a rough patch at a certain point, and they may or may not be together, but I have a firm belief that nothing happens with Miguel while Jack and Rebecca are married," she shares. As for Ventimiglia, he believes that "Jack loves his wife" and "that Jack wants his wife to be happy."

Series creator Dan Fogelman also teases what may happen to Rebecca and Jack's marriage. "Their marriage in the series, or the first season of the show, is a real marriage with ups and downs," he says. "The show is always hopeful, even though it's heavy and not everything is perfect. It's fair to say that there can be sadness and sad endings to things for these two, but I think as their love story goes, it's a hopeful and romantic one, too."

He adds, "They're in love in the way that people fall in love in movies. It's soulmate kind of stuff, right? But that's not to say they can't separate, or divorce, or die."

But we may have to wait for a while before we get the answer as Fogelman reasons, "Otherwise we're just unfolding too much stuff too quickly. It's that fine line where you also want to satisfy and not frustrate. But yeah, how people got together, we're really going to play that."

"This Is Us" airs Tuesdays at 10 P.M. ET/PT on NBC. The family drama has received a full-season order from the network.

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