In making 'Waves,' actor plays a different father from his beloved 'This Is Us' role
When fans see Sterling K. Brown on the big screen in A24's acclaimed drama "Waves," they'll meet a very different family man from the one he plays on TV.
For four seasons and counting on NBC's hit "This Is Us," he's brought sensitivity to Randall Pearson, the loving father and husband whose desire to please masks a debilitating battle with anxiety.
In "Waves," written and directed by Trey Edward Shults ("Krisha") and opening Nov. 15, the two-time Emmy winner puts a much tougher face on fatherhood as the tightly wound patriarch of a suburban South Florida family thrust suddenly into tragedy and crisis.
"For me it's about, how does somebody love?" mused Brown, 43, between bites of breakfast on a recent morning in Los Angeles, considering the emotional gulf between Randall and Ronald Williams, the iron-pumping alpha dad in "Waves."
"Randall wears his heart on his sleeve; he's wide open," he offered. "He wants everybody to be happy all the time, and he takes
