According to Sterling K. Brown, his presence in This Is Us encouraged viewers to give up their careers and adopt children

Despite ending in 2022, This Is Us continues to have a profound impact on its fan base.

Speaking with fans of the NBC drama (which host Graham Norton, 60, dubbed a “boohoo bonanza”), Sterling K. Brown said on Friday’s episode of BBC’s The Graham Norton Show that he had persuaded some viewers to make choices that changed their lives.
“People approach me…” “A hug is usually the first thing fans of This Is Us want,” he told the show. “They’ll talk about how the show changed their lives or just provided them with some form of catharsis as they were going through something.”
“It’s incredibly beautiful,” 47-year-old Brown said. “I mean, I had no idea that would have the effect that it did. Seeing how it impacted people globally surprised me, even though I knew it was a fantastic narrative with a terrific bunch of individuals.”
Norton’s lips dropped as the actor continued to list some of the ways the program has touched viewers.
“I’ve had women come up to me with adopted babies saying, ‘I adopted this child because of you,'” he said to me.
The actor also said that he was the reason for a fan’s resignation from their employment; the fan explicitly mentioned his This Is Us character, Randall Pearson.
“He said, like, ‘I was already on the fence and because Randall had the courage to do it then I dared to do it too,” Brown was said to have stated. He chuckled, “I said, ‘I never told you to do that,'”
“At a time when things are so divided in the United States, it felt like people were able to come together and say, ‘You know what?'” Brown said in reflection on the six-season run of the program, which ran from 2016 to 2022. “I love my family.”
“And this show was all about family, so at least it brought people together for like a little bit,” he said.
After the conclusion of the well-known NBC drama, which also featured Mandy Moore, Milo Ventimiglia, Chrissy Metz, and Justin Hartley, Brown has performed in a number of shows, including American Fiction, for which he was recently nominated for an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor.