Last year, Moore said she had nearly given up on acting before landing her part on This Is Us in 2016, which has earned her a Golden Globe nomination and is currently on its fourth season.

“As an actor, so much of our job is rejection,” Moore described during a panel. “I kept smacking into that wall time and time again for quite a number of years and I think it also coincided with some tricky stuff in my personal life and the combination of those two just made me feel so stuck.”

She continued, “I contemplated [quitting], I was like, ‘I think this is it. I think this is the universe giving me a sign that maybe this is not what I’m supposed to be doing… Maybe I’m not supposed to be an actor anymore like, I’ve been incredibly lucky, I’ve had this really fruitful time earlier in my life and maybe now I’m supposed to lean into something else’.”

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