The teenager — who performed Lily Tucker-Pritchett on ‘Trendy Household’ — opens up about her expertise as a baby star, what was typically “irritating” on set and will get candid about her friendship with co-star Jesse Tyler Ferguson.
It has been over 5 years since Trendy Household mentioned goodbye — and star Aubrey Anderson-Emmons solely appears 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 baby star.
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Anderson-Emmons joined Trendy Household in Season 3, taking on the function 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 does not even really feel like 5 years,” Anderson-Emmons, 18, advised TooFab. “Time is such a wonky factor for me. I believe it helps that it is wonky within the sense that, you realize, my music writing and stuff like that. However how do I give it some thought now? I really feel like individuals type of requested me that query so much, 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 believe it was actually progressive for its time, too,” she continued. “The truth that I used to be an Asian adopted youngster being raised by two homosexual dads, completely unimaginable. And I am so comfortable to have been part of that.”
“In the case of the precise expertise of being on set, I imply, I can not complain. Trendy Household was fairly nice for essentially the most half. And it was quite a lot of work. I believe individuals 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 residence, after which possibly begin once more the subsequent day. So, it was so much.”
Anderson-Emmons famous that it “wasn’t simply enjoyable on a regular basis,” however “actually irritating typically.”
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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 individuals weren’t speaking with me, proper?” she mentioned. “Simply because they do not know easy methods to talk with youngsters. And that is not their fault. A whole lot of administrators and folks 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 wished to go see a musical with him. “I am actually grateful for that,” she mentioned 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 also be recognized for his appearances on Broadway — has given her any recommendation on launching her music profession, she mentioned, “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 trade general.”
“For instance, I used to be on his podcast and we had a protracted dialog about being in theater and that type of stuff,” she advised TooFab. “However in the case of a music profession particularly, no recommendation actually, as a result of I imply … he is a singer, however not essentially a author. Truly, you realize, possibly 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 yr, 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 unsuitable with me?”
Anderson-Emmons referenced the identical scene when she used the audio in a Tiktok video earlier in June, wherein she celebrated Delight Month by sharing that she’s bisexual.
Over a video of her lip-syncing to the sound, she wrote, “individuals maintain joking a lot abt me being homosexual once I actually am (I am bi).” Anderson-Emmons added within the caption, “hehe comfortable pleasure month and to all eveningðŸ¤.”
Whereas many on-line interpreted her social media put up as Anderson-Emmons “popping out” as bisexual, she advised TooFab she does not imagine it was an “announcement” — and shared why it should not have been perceived as such.
“In the case of the entire popping out facet, and I’ve mentioned this earlier than, I even mentioned it on-line, it is a type of issues the place it is, like, I did not even imply to come back out,” Anderson-Emmons defined. “I did not consider it as an announcement to the world, like, ‘Hey, I am bisexual!’ You realize what I imply? I simply was like, ‘Haha, type of humorous as a result of I am a little bit bit homosexual, and I had this audio of me as a child.'”
“However then individuals type of took it as a popping out factor. And I believe individuals 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 need to care, and this should not need to be information as a result of issues like this could simply be normalized,” she continued, earlier than sharing how her mates reacted to her TikTok.
“All my mates who already knew have been … they have been like, ‘Bro, what a shocker!’ You realize what I imply?” she mentioned. “It simply does 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. Although 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 concentrate on music.
“I audition as a lot as I can. I like performing,” she mentioned. “As soon as I joined highschool, I joined my theater class and I joined my music class and that endlessly modified me. Once I was youthful, proper after Trendy Household, I did not need to act in any respect anymore. And auditioning gave me quite a lot of stress. However I am sufficiently old to deal with it now. And since I find it irresistible a lot, I most undoubtedly will return to performing sometime. Certainly one of my largest desires is to be on Broadway. … That may be my dream state of affairs in the case of performing.”
Try the complete interview within the video on the prime of this put up, and hearken to Anderson-Emmons’ EP, Drown, right here.
