Double duty! Emma Roberts embraced motherhood while working on her first movie since welcoming son Rhodes in 2020.“I was lucky enough to get to have my son on set with me,” the 31-year-old actress told Entertainment Tonight on Tuesday, June 14, of filming Abandoned. “I was working all day, and it’s obviously heavy subject matter, but he was the best spot of my day.”In the thriller, the New York native plays a new mom who starts to unravel amid postpartum psychosis after moving to a remote farmhouse with her family.
Despite the intense story line, Roberts felt balanced with her own role as a working parent.“My mom would always bring him to have lunch with all of us.
It was really nice,” the Scream Queens alum recalled. “It was a nice experience, despite how horrifying the movie looks.”The American Horror Story star, who welcomed Rhodes with ex-boyfriend Garrett Hedlund in December 2020, confessed that she was “so scared” by the movie’s trailer. “I was like, ‘We had so much fun doing it, I didn’t realize it was going to be so scary,’” she added.Before Roberts signed on to do the project, there was some hesitation on her team’s part.
In fact, they were “nervous” to bring her the script due to her new mom status, according to the actress.“Because I had just had a baby, they’re like, ‘I don’t know what you’re going to think of this.
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