![]() “It’s funny how Andi and Amber are enemies on the show because we have so much fun off the show,” Emily says. It is so amazing how everyone on the cast just clicked. “They’re just so much fun to become that character and that person because obviously that’s never going to happen to me.”Įven so, “Andi Mack” is “the most fun project ever,” she says. “I love playing those kinds of roles,” Emily says of the scarier fare. Since then she’s worked regularly, playing some kid roles – a tiny beauty pageant girl on Disney Channel’s “Shake It Up!” – but also parts including a young vampire in the movie “Blood Ransom” and a juvenile murder victim on “Rizzoli & Isles.” And it was super fun to play, because it was a pretty dramatic role.” “The very first (role) was ‘Numbers,'” says Emily, the only one in her family, which includes sister Lauren, 17, who works in entertainment. Which it did, but it also unveiled a serious talent, which her teacher recognized, mentioned to her parents, Jennifer and Steve Skinner, and helped her find an agent, with whom she’s still with more than seven years later. ![]() And she was like, ‘Acting?’ Then she said, ‘OK,’ and put me in a class, and thought maybe it will help with my shyness.” “But I told my mom one day I want to do acting. “When I was little I was very shy,” she says. 30 – it’s largely due to the fact that Emily has been a professional actress in film and television for half her life now. If this discussion of character development and acting sounds awful grown-up for a teenager whose not quite 15 – that birthday arrives on Nov. “(Amber) doesn’t change overnight, you see the process of her learning and changing.” ![]() “I love that Terri keeps it real with her writing,” Emily says. And she and Jonah break up at the same time he realizes he kinda sorta likes Andi. She’s had to get a job at the local diner where all the kids hang out after school. Now Amber’s family has fallen on hard economic times. 24 and will repeat throughout the week that follows.) (A new episode titled “The Snorpion” highlights Skinner’s transformation as Amber. “So when they gave her a back story it was really exciting because her character became more interesting for me to play,” she says. “I always do that to give myself a better understanding. ![]() “Even though she was a very flat character in season one, the ‘It Girl’ who has it all, from the beginning I always had a back story for her in my mind,” Emily says. Her best friends include Buffy (Sofia Wylie), a no-nonsense girl who plays basketball on the boy’s team at their middle school, and Cyrus (Joshua Rush), whose character realizes he is gay – a first for a Disney Channel character - at the start of the second season in October. In “Andi Mack,” the title character played by Peyton Elizabeth Lee discovers as she’s turning 13 that her older sister Bex (Lilan Bowden) is actually her mother, and her grandparents (Lauren Tom and Stoney Westmoreland) have been raising as her parents. “And the script, the story line, was so interesting.” “The characters were so relatable and real,” Emily says. It was intended to be a single-camera show which meant it would have the look and feel of a movie more than a typical TV situation comedy. It was written and created by Terri Minsky, whose previous show for younger audiences, Disney Channel’s “Lizzie McGuire,” Emily had loved. When Emily Skinner first read the script for a new Disney Channel show called “Andi Mack” the then-13-year-old actress from Trabuco Canyon says she connected strongly with it from the first few pages. ![]()
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