Hilary Duff talks about how it felt to film the last season of Younger ‘very tough’
Hilary Duff said she was emotional about filming the ending of her series Younger.
“Honestly, it’s tough, it feels really tough,” the 33-year-old star told Brooke Baldwin, who took over Ellen Friday. “All the people on that show were a family and we’ve all been through so much, you know, making kids, getting married, getting divorced.”
The Houston resident added, “Our characters have grown so much that we’ve all grown as a family.”
The latest: Hilary Duff, 33, said she was emotional about filming the ending of her series Younger in an outside appearance on Ellen’s Friday edition.
Duff said it was ‘weird’ to say goodbye to the cast and crew on the rom-com series, which starred with Sutton Foster, Miriam Shor and Hilary Duff.
“I know I’m going to see them again, but it’s weird, seven years of my life I’ve based all my other jobs on those four months that I’m in New York with those people on that crew,” she said. “Frankly, the crew that was so emotional, it was like I don’t know when I’m going to see them again.”
Last September, the show’s creator, Darren Star, told TVLine that the show’s seventh season was “ unofficially ” scheduled as its last.
Production of the show’s sixth season took place in September 2019, with the coronavirus pandemic halting season seven production until last fall.
Candid: Duff said it was ‘weird’ to say goodbye to cast and crew on the rom-com series, which starred alongside Sutton Foster, Miriam Shor and Hilary Duff
Houston resident added: ‘Our characters have grown to such an extent that we have all grown as a family’
Duff chatted with Brooke Baldwin, who filled in for Ellen on Friday
Star said the COVID-19 pandemic is likely to be integrated into the show’s seventh season.
“Younger’s move picks up where it left off last season, namely before the pandemic,” Star told the outlet. “But I think we’re looking forward to taking it into the action as the season goes on.”
Duff is currently expecting her third child – she is the mother of daughter Banks, two, with husband Matthew Koma, and eight-year-old son, Luca, with ex-husband Mike Comrie.
On the episode, Duff said she wrote her latest children’s book My Little Brave Girl in her phone’s Notes app, and talked about the time frame that inspired the material.
Duff played the role of Kelsey Peters in the Darren Star series from 2015 to 2019
‘Yes, in the notes [app] from my phone actually, ”she said. I went back to work and I really had a colic baby, so Banks was super attached to me and… not even four months postpartum, ”she said. ‘I went back to work and 16, 17 hours on set really isn’t a great place for a baby, so a lot of growing pains and learning to get divorced … it’s hard to let go.’
She said that in feeding the child, she appreciated Banks’ courage in recovering the baby from “ a struggle ” not to be with her mother as often as she wanted.
“It inspired this book,” she added, noting that she was holding her daughter the moment she wrote it.