'Of course, you want people to like your character right away. But I love the reaction people are having to this episode,' the actor tells The Hollywood Reporter of the long-awaited, decades-spanning hour that finally gives audiences the full picture of Rebecca's (Mandy Moore) second love story.
that audience reaction would actually go on to help shape the six-season arc that he and Fogelman meticulously plotted for Miguel, all culminating in Tuesday night’s full-circle hour centered on the man who spent decades — and an actor who waited patiently for years — to be fully accepted into the Pearson family.
The episode, titled “Miguel,” was written by Jonny Gomez and directed by Zetna Fuentes, the latter who was hand-picked by Huertas to authentically capture the Puerto Rican immigrant experience.
The end of the time-spanning episode reveals that Miguel passes away before Rebecca — providing the long-awaited answer as to why he was missing from the flash-forward to an older Rebecca’s bedside — and both his and Rebecca’s children come together to spread his ashes in a beautiful goodbye.
You are a patient actor. It couldn’t have been easy to play Miguel all of these years, someone who isn’t accepted into the Pearson family. Finally, you get your acceptance and it comes in this beautiful hour, but you had to wait for it. At what point did you know this was your trajectory and what have your conversations been like with
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