I said to Dan, ‘Well, what would be dreamy for the person who never got their break, is if Meryl Streep played this.’ He’s like, ‘’Yeah, good luck with that, John.’ And then it was a matter of two weeks that Meryl was calling Marty and Steve, just to say that she likes the show,” he says. “ Dan Fogelman and Jess Rosenthal and I, after Season 2, got together and started talking about this opener that introduced this actress into the world. “And it all kind of leapt off from that first notion of that character.”Ĭoincidences aside, Hoffman never expected to land Streep for the role.

“That was the beginning of a very faithful, lovely time with her,” Hoffman adds.

’” Sure enough, in the season opener Loretta hears the line, “The sweetest sounds I’ll ever hear are still inside my head” as she watches on in awe.

I’m gonna send you the draft of Episode 1 after we get off this Zoom and you’re gonna see, the lyric you just sang to me now is on. “I was like, ‘I gotta stop you right now, because this is preposterous.

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