Name: Aubrey Anderson-Emmons REACTS to 'Modern Family' Moments | ET Then and Now
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Hi, I'm Aubrey Anderson-Emmons, also known as Frances Anderson, and this is E.T.'s Then and Now.

Do you see that, like, the I hate Vietnam scene is having this resurgence now on social media?

It's inescapable, brother. I'm telling you.

My comment sections, I could post anything, and there will be at least one comment that's like,

Hopefully, like, I'm here for it, though, you know?

She played the waitress, who was Vietnamese.

Do you ever re-watch any of the episodes?

This is actually a funny question, because I've been re-watching it recently for the first time, and it's been this thing I started to realize, oh, wow, people have seen more of me at that age than I have seen me at that age, and they remember more than I do.

So I was like, I should go back and watch.

So I started at the season that I started on.

As you're re-watching, are there any scenes that you do actually really recall?

Me running into that wall, it was a green screen, and they made me run into that wall so many damn times.

A lot of the stunts that I did on set, those are very memorable, because I had to, like, prep for them and work with the stunt guy.

I had to fall into pools several times and do stuff like that.

I was on a drying rack once, or, like, it was a laundry rack, like one of those ones that go up.

How would you sum up that entire chapter of your life on Modern Family?

That was my childhood. That's what I did.

I went to elementary, like, regular elementary school for a couple years, but I mostly did homeschool, and so that's where I grew up for the most part, yeah.

Aubrey was just four when she joined the show in 2011 as a series regular, replacing the original twins who played Lily.

Sometimes I think about it, and I'm like, wow,

Like, I can't even believe that happened to me.

I wanted to take a little trip down memory lane, a little rewind here to the very first time that we met you.

What do you like about being on Modern Family?

I'm going to be, like, looking at myself after I talk to myself.

When you see that, what was going through your mind?

I, in general, I get really nervous for interviews, so especially as a kid, I never knew what to say.

Not a lot of children can pull off what you were able to do on camera.

Did you feel more comfortable as time went on in what you were doing and your skillset?

I almost feel a little bit more insecure about my work, in a way, because when you're young, when you're four, you're five, you don't realize, you don't have thoughts about your self-worth.

I feel like you're comfortable with who you are because you're not taught otherwise.

So I think, in a way, I was more comfortable when I first started out than I am now, even though I think I've improved a lot.

Would you be interested ever in doing a reboot because of how much this show has meant to you?

Especially if Jessie or Eric were working on it.

I do love, though, that you're still very close to some of your co-stars.

Tell me a little bit about those relationships that you've maintained through the years.

I've mostly remained close with Jessie, and he had me on his podcast a couple of years ago.

He's come to a couple of my high school performances.

I also, I see Julie around because she knows some people at some of the schools that I go to and stuff, and I got to see her play recently.

Actually, yes, and it was for the Modern Family Reunion Party.

And honestly, I had nobody's number besides Jessie and maybe Ariel, but then everybody got added to this big group chat for the reunion at Sofia Vergara's house.

She graduated high school early, and now she's making the jump from actress to singer-songwriter.

The 17-year-old's first single, Telephones in Traffic, which started as a school project, is out now, and a full EP is coming later this summer.

♪ Far gone, more toward what you're wanting for ♪

And of course, all of your music is under a new name,

Why was that important for you to have this new name almost separating yourself from your acting identity?

So I'm kind of entering a new phase of my life where I'm about to turn 18, and I kind of want Frances Anderson to be focused on my childhood and what I did when I was off of the TV screen.

And also, Frances is actually a part of my legal name.

Frances is my middle name, so Frances Anderson.

And I didn't really like my middle name growing up, and I think I kind of want to take it as like accepting parts of myself that I didn't when I was younger.

So how did the transition then come about?

I started writing music in school in I think ninth or ninth or 10th grade, mostly around 10th grade.

I joined my music class, and we had a really incredible teacher.

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