Time Capsule | "The Cabin" (414) with Director Catherine Hardwicke

That Was Us

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🗓️ 16 December 2025

⏱️ 88 minutes

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On today’s episode of That Was Us, we’re diving into Season 4, Episode 14: The Cabin. As the Big Three reunite at the family cabin, old wounds reopen, including flashbacks to Kate’s toxic relationship with Marc, and a rediscovered time capsule gives them a long-lost piece of Jack. Plus, here to join the discussion is the Director of this episode, Catherine Hardwicke (Twilight, Thirteen, Lords of Dogtown)! Catherine chats about her memories of filming with the cast at the cabin, the drawing she created that’s featured in the episode, and so much more! That Was Us is produced by Rabbit Grin Productions. Music by Taylor Goldsmith and Griffin Goldsmith. ------------------------- Support Our Sponsors: Help protect your home systems – and your wallet – with HomeServe againstcovered repairs. Plans start at just $4.99 a month. Go to https://HomeServe.com tofind the plan that’s right for you. Brought to you by Bombas, One Clothing Item Purchased = One Clothing Item Donated Head over to https://Bombas.com and use code TWU for 20% off your first purchase. ------------------------- 🍋 About the Show: The stars of This Is Us, Mandy Moore, Sterling K. Brown, and Chris Sullivan, dive back into the world of the Pearsons, reliving each episode and all the life lessons that came with it. Together, they dig in and dig deep, have the tough conversations, bring in very special and familiar guests, share never-before-heard behind-the-scenes moments, and feature listeners in highly anticipated fan segments. Join your favorite family back in the living room to examine our past, cherish our present, and look to the future with new episodes of That Was Us every Tuesday. ------------------------- 00:00:00 Intro 00:00:32 Discussion 01:05:31 Fan Segment 01:27:09 Outro Executive Producers: Natalie Holysz and Rob Holysz Creative Producer: Sam Skelton Production Coordinator: Andrew Rowley Video Editor: Todd Hughlett Mix & Master: Jason Richards Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	On today's episode of That Was Us, we're diving into season four, episode 14, The Cabin.
0:17.0	As the Big Three reunite at the family cabin, old wounds reopen, including flashbacks to Kate's toxic relationship with Mark, and a rediscovered time capsule gives them a long lost piece of Jack.
0:32.5	Hello, friends.
0:33.8	Hello.
0:34.5	Hello.
0:36.4	Hello.
0:42.6	Wonderful acoustics. I'm great. How are you guys?
0:49.2	You look great. Dress is dressing. Yeah. Hair is hair and makeup. I mean, you look like sophisticated,
0:53.9	like a grown-ass woman. Like, not that you aren't because that's exactly what you're on.
1:12.7	For once. How is, you've been working on the new Fogelman show for the past month or so? Yeah, yeah. Good? It's been going great. It's great time. So much fun, yes. Is it like, is the part like Rebecca? Not quite. Not at all. She is a tough cookie this one.
1:14.0	Not that Rebecca wasn't a tough cookie. Sure.
1:14.2	She's just, yeah, she's like competitive and driven and doesn't really take any prisoner.
1:22.7	She's, you know, she's gunning for one thing in life and doesn't care what gets in her way. This feels very ericentric. Very airycentric. You feel in line with this. No, that's what's fun about it. Like, you know what I mean? It's just doing something wholly different. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But see, I'm saying this because there's a hidden side to Mandy Moore that people don't frequently get to see it. Well, if you push me. Oh, man, I've had the flashes of seeing it. They're delightful, aren't they? They're exhilarating. They are delightful. You're like, there she is. Well, you know, you got to advocate for yourself. It's like when Chrissy's Florida comes out. Oh, I love when Chrissy's Florida comes out. Same thing. It's exhilarating. Yeah. It's delightful. So then do you get to cursing this one? Oh, yeah. Okay. There have been some scenes where I'm like, this is too many Fs. Like it's just a lot of Fs. F, F, F, F, F, F, F, F, F, F, F, F, that. I'm like, I was like, is this, is this going to be too much?
2:18.6	Do you smoke?
2:19.5	No, no, no.
2:20.5	No smoking.
2:21.2	But you can curse.
2:22.2	Yeah.
2:22.6	Lots of cursing.
2:23.6	You banging anybody?
2:25.0	Maybe.
2:25.9	Oh, exhilarating.
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