Shay Mitchell She may be a good mother to her two daughters, but pretty Little Liars Can never happen together.
sitting for an interview The Jennifer Hudson Show On Thursday, the 37-year-old actress and entrepreneur discussed returning home to Warner Bros. Studios, where she filmed the popular Freeform drama, and why she struggles with the idea of revisiting her girls. Michele has two daughters, 4-year-old Atlas and 2-year-old Rome, with her longtime partner, Mattea Babel.
“I always think about this, me and my partner always think like this, he says, ‘The day Atlas gets older, we’ll watch it again,’ and I say, ‘Oh, my eyebrows got so thin shooting that whole season,'” she joked, adding that she never watches episodes alone.
Mitchell – who played Emily Fields from 2010 to 2017 – said: “I don’t know if I’m ready or not but you know, it was an incredible experience, of course, I only have good memories from shooting it.”
According to the busy mom, she finds it difficult to revisit her old projects because she feels like she is constantly trying to complete the never-ending viewing and reading list that seems to grow day by day. Therefore, she doesn’t want to go back to a project she knows so well.
Having said that, the Beis CEO said she isn’t completely ruling out the possibility of seeing some episodes of the show — which ran for seven seasons and also starred actors Lucy Hale, Ashley Benson, Troian Bellisario And Sasha Pieterse — when the time comes. However, revisiting it in its entirety is out of the question, as he jokingly admitted he simply doesn’t have the time to do it all.
“Maybe I’ll watch a few episodes, it was a lot, it was seven seasons,” she said of the 160-episode series that catapulted her to stardom. “There were a lot of shows but maybe in time.”
In December, the Canadian-born actress spoke out. Birdie About the struggles she faced at the beginning of the series and the comparisons that came to her mind when she compared herself to them PLL Co-stars.
“When I booked the show, I knew I didn’t have as much acting experience as the other girls. A part of me was scared, but I knew I would figure it out eventually,” Michelle shared. “Did I think my performance was going to win an Academy Award? Absolutely not. But shit. I did it, and I tried my hardest. I learned more [on that set] More than I could have done in any acting class.”
She also admitted that her role on the show defined her as an actress and a human being for a while, while it also gave her the opportunity and platform to pursue dreams outside of acting, including starting her own luggage company.
Michelle said what she learned while on the show has helped her become a more empowered and courageous woman, which she also plans to teach her two daughters, who are of mixed race. Michelle is Filipino and Irish, while Babel is Trinidadian and Caucasian.
Earlier, he talked about the race with Atlas (who was a newborn at the time) in a video. Interview with ET in June 2020,
“I think it’s really important to educate them at a young age so they know that no matter what you look like, you deserve to love and be loved without judgement, you are the be all and end all, that’s it,” Michelle said.
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