The teenager — who performed Lily Tucker-Pritchett on ‘Trendy Household’ — opens up about her expertise as a toddler star, what was generally “irritating” on set and will get getting candid about her friendship with co-star Jesse Tyler Ferguson.
It has been over 5 years since Trendy Household stated goodbye — and star Aubrey Anderson-Emmons solely seems again on the expertise of starring on the beloved sitcom with gratitude.
Whereas selling her music debut in an interview with TooFab, the actress — who performed Lily Tucker-Pritchett on eight seasons of the Emmy-winning sequence — mirrored on rising up on-screen on Trendy Household, and opened up about her expertise as a toddler star.
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Anderson-Emmons joined Trendy Household in Season 3, taking up the position of Lily — the Vietnamese adopted daughter of Mitchell (Jesse Tyler Ferguson) and Cameron (Eric Stonestreet) — whom she performed all through the remainder of the present’s run. Trendy Household ran for 11 seasons in complete, signing off in April 2020.
“It would not even really feel like 5 years,” Anderson-Emmons, 18, instructed TooFab. “Time is such a wonky factor for me. I feel it helps that it is wonky within the sense that, you understand, my music writing and stuff like that. However how do I give it some thought now? I really feel like folks sort of requested me that query lots, however in several fonts. I really feel grateful that I used to be on that present.”
“I am actually, actually grateful for all of the individuals who bought laughs out of Trendy Household and for all of the households that it introduced pleasure to. And I feel it was actually progressive for its time, too,” she continued. “The truth that I used to be an Asian adopted little one being raised by two homosexual dads, completely unbelievable. And I am so completely happy to have been part of that.”
“On the subject of the precise expertise of being on set, I imply, I am unable to complain. Trendy Household was fairly nice for essentially the most half. And it was a number of work. I feel folks do not realize that it is work,” she added. “You do college for 3 hours, and then you definately act for hours, and then you definately go dwelling, after which perhaps begin once more the subsequent day. So, it was lots.”
Anderson-Emmons famous that it “wasn’t simply enjoyable on a regular basis,” however “actually irritating generally.”
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“I had days on set the place I used to be crying as a result of I would not know what a director would need me to do, or folks weren’t speaking with me, proper?” she stated. “Simply because they do not know find out how to talk with youngsters. And that is not their fault. Plenty of administrators and other people on units have simply by no means labored with youngsters. However for essentially the most half, I had an important expertise.”
Anderson-Emmons added that she nonetheless stays “shut” with Ferguson, noting that his husband, Justin Mikita, reached out to her that morning asking if she needed to go see a musical with him. “I am actually grateful for that,” she stated of her friendship with Ferguson.
Anderson-Emmons — who dropped her debut EP, Drown, on August 8 — opened up about her bond with Ferguson.
When requested if Ferguson — who can be recognized for his appearances on Broadway — has given her any recommendation on launching her music profession, she stated, “I would not essentially say he is given me recommendation for a music profession. I really feel like he is given me good recommendation simply on being within the business total.”
“For instance, I used to be on his podcast and we had an extended dialog about being in theater and that sort of stuff,” she instructed TooFab. “However in relation to a music profession particularly, no recommendation actually, as a result of I imply … he is a singer, however not essentially a author. Truly, you understand, perhaps he’s! I’ve no clue. I’ve by no means requested him, however he clearly hasn’t launched music. So I do not know.”
Anderson-Emmons and Ferguson have publicly reunited many instances over the 12 months, with the latter even featured in a hilarious TikTok video Anderson-Emmons shared in late June. The 2 reprised their characters by lip-syncing to audio of an iconic second from the Season 4 of Trendy Household that options Sofia Vergara’s character Gloria telling Anderson-Emmons’ Lily, her grandmother, that she’s “Vietnamese.” Lily exclaims in reply, “No, I am not. I am homosexual! I am homosexual,” to which Ferguson’s Mitchell replies, “Honey, no. You are not homosexual. You are simply confused. Oh my god! What’s fallacious with me?”
Anderson-Emmons referenced the identical scene when she used the audio in a Tiktok video earlier in June, by which she celebrated Satisfaction Month by sharing that she’s bisexual.
Over a video of her lip-syncing to the sound, she wrote, “folks preserve joking a lot abt me being homosexual after I actually am (I am bi).” Anderson-Emmons added within the caption, “hehe completely happy delight month and to all a great evening🤭.”
Whereas many on-line interpreted her social media publish as Anderson-Emmons “popping out” as bisexual, she instructed TooFab she would not consider it was an “announcement” — and shared why it should not have been perceived as such.
“On the subject of the entire popping out side, and I’ve stated this earlier than, I even stated it on-line, it is a kind of issues the place it is, like, I did not even imply to return out,” Anderson-Emmons defined. “I did not consider it as an announcement to the world, like, ‘Hey, I am bisexual!’ You already know what I imply? I simply was like, ‘Haha, sort of humorous as a result of I am a bit bit homosexual, and I had this audio of me as a child.'”
“However then folks sort of took it as a popping out factor. And I feel folks have been like, ‘Why can we care that she got here out as bisexual?’ And I am like, ‘Yeah, that must be the perspective. Why can we care?’ We should not must care, and this should not must be information as a result of issues like this could simply be normalized,” she continued, earlier than sharing how her associates reacted to her TikTok.
“All my associates who already knew have been … they have been like, ‘Bro, what a shocker!’ You already know what I imply?” she stated. “It simply would not matter. Why is that this a factor? It was actually humorous although. And for all of the individuals who have supported me and have been like, ‘Congrats on popping out.’ Thanks. Though I did not imply it as a popping out.”
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Elsewhere throughout her interview with TooFab, Anderson-Emmons opened up about her future following her music debut, revealing whether or not or not she plans on placing performing on pause for now to give attention to music.
“I audition as a lot as I can. I like performing,” she stated. “As soon as I joined highschool, I joined my theater class and I joined my music class and that ceaselessly modified me. After I was youthful, proper after Trendy Household, I did not need to act in any respect anymore. And auditioning gave me a number of stress. However I am sufficiently old to deal with it now. And since I like it a lot, I most undoubtedly will return to performing sometime. Considered one of my largest goals is to be on Broadway. … That might be my dream situation in relation to performing.”
Take a look at the complete interview within the video on the high of this publish, and take heed to Anderson-Emmons’ EP, Drown, right here.
