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“I think [creator] Dan [Fogelman] and our writers have been interested in showing the different forms of family and giving value to all those different forms of family,” the actor shares.

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Though Kate recently visited her husband in the Bay Area, it was apparent that neither was willing to compromise, as Kate even called Phillip to be considered for a new role at the L.A. music school.

“It’s sort of like a dissection of how two really good people, who are not antagonistic or mean or bad in and of themselves, can find themselves missing each other and how that reverberates through not just their own relationship, but through the rest of the family as well. That’s what I can say about the party,” Brown teases.

The three-time Emmy winner adds, “My wife and I have this conversation with each other all the time. If you’re not growing together, you are growing apart. And there are times in which things can be like that. You have to make a real course correction to be like, ‘All right, how do we get back on the same page?’ Fifty percent of the time, people do. And 50 percent of the time they don’t.”

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“Well, there’s something aside from the Egg that occurs. Let’s just say, it is not a normal party,” Metztold PEOPLEabout Rebecca and Miguel’s upcoming anniversary barbeque.

As for what he may want to take from the set as a keepsake, the star admits, “I haven’t taken anything yet” but he might have his eye on certain items.

“There is a little figurine. As a matter of fact, I’m not going to take this. I think Sue [Susan Kelechi Watson] deserves this more than I. It’s a little Black sort of Barbie doll thing that lives in our kitchen and it moves from different spaces all the time,” he shares. “I just love the idea that they have this little Black girl figurine that has been a part of their lives for their daughters to see as they grow up, which would be cool to take.”

When asked about the possibility of his young sons, Andrew, 8, and Amaré, 6, mistaking the prized Pilgrim Rick prop as a Thanksgiving relic, Brown responds, “Oh, they’ll totally rock it on Thanksgiving. Are you kidding me? I’ll do it in a heartbeat. I will make it a Brown family tradition to wear this goofy hat. I would love it. It’d be awesome.”

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source: people.com