Mandy Moore calls penultimate episode "just this weird confluence of gratitude...

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and sadness"

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Moore admits she wasn't okay watching last night's episode focusing on her Rebecca Pearson character. "I mean, it’s strange," she tells The Hollywood Reporter. "I was sitting next to my husband watching it, and watching his emotions and feeling him made it even more emotional. It’s the end of an era. It’s saying goodbye to this woman I’ve had the pleasure of knowing and inhabiting for six years. And the fact that I’ll never get to do it again, it’s just this weird confluence of gratitude and sadness; it’s quite bittersweet."

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