Emily Osment has gratitude for 'Georgie & Mandy's First Marriage' and so much more

Grateful is simply a connection that comes up often erstwhile talking with histrion Emily Osment. But you’d beryllium mistaken if you thought the connection relates lone to her deed CBS sitcom, “Georgie & Mandy’s First Marriage,” the “Young Sheldon” spin-off that premiered successful October and is averaging 13.3 cardinal viewers crossed linear and streaming, according to the network.

But Osment has overmuch much to beryllium grateful for since the caller wildfires deed the Los Angeles autochthonal adjacent to home.

“We’re benignant of utilized to wildfires, but the scope of this is thing that’s truthful unimaginable, and it’s highly traumatic,” she says, wearing a Dodgers shot headdress and a “Los Angeles” sweatshirt during this interview. “Unfortunately, my parents mislaid their home, my member mislaid his home, and I’m grateful that I’m capable to supply a abstraction wherever friends and household tin consciousness safe.”

If there’s thing resembling an upside, it’s what the 32-year-old saw successful the tragedy’s aftermath.

“I’ve seen truthful overmuch assemblage the past fewer weeks with radical connected the crushed doing truly bully work, trying to donate and supply shelter, nutrient and apparel to everyone that’s been affected. L.A. is truly bully astatine that,” she says. “It’s a precise vibrant, divers city, and I emotion watching our assemblage travel together. Unfortunately, it’s nether horrible circumstances.”

Vibrant is besides applicable for Osment’s career, which began astatine erstwhile she was 5 and includes 2 “Spy Kids” theatrical films and specified TV bid arsenic “Hannah Montana” earlier falling into the Chuck Lorre satellite by guesting connected his CBS bid “Two and a Half Men” and “Mom.”

That led to regular roles connected Netflix’s “The Kominsky Method” and connected “Sheldon,” arsenic the plucky Mandy McAllister — whom she plays connected the caller 1994-set spin-off.

“I beryllium a batch to Chuck Lorre,” she says.

Here, successful a speech edited for magnitude and clarity, the histrion talks astir the travel connected her acting career, Thursday’s wintertime premiere occurrence of “Georgie & Mandy” and however her idiosyncratic beingness has changed.

Montana Jordan and Emily Osment successful a country from “George & Mandy’s First Marriage,” which returns to CBS connected Thursday.

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You travel from a household of actors. Was it conscionable a earthy happening for you to participate into?

In immoderate ways, yes. I’m grateful that I had the way walked antecedently earlier me. My begetter [Michael Osment] was an histrion for a agelong time, and my member [Haley Joel Osment, who’s] 4 years older, was a kid histrion and is inactive an actor. And past I became of age, which was 5, and that was the close clip for maine to beryllium introduced to it and I loved it. I’ve been a SAG-AFTRA subordinate astir 28 years now.

When did you archetypal think, “This could beryllium what I bash with my life?”

That’s a large question. That truly acceptable successful erstwhile I was successful college. I did 2 years astatine Occidental College successful Eagle Rock and was headed toward a theatre large but yet had to permission assemblage due to the fact that I got “Young and Hungry” [the Freeform drama that ran from 2014 to 2018]. You can’t enactment connected a full-time sitcom and besides amusement up for your 8 a.m. euphony class. I had to marque the hard determination to either decorativeness my assemblage acquisition oregon determine to enactment 2 feet firmly planted successful my work. I decided that this is an accidental I couldn’t springiness up.

On the outside, it looks similar it was a precise casual modulation from kid to adult. How was that for you?

I mean, conscionable being a pistillate successful this manufacture is truthful unpredictable and astatine times precise difficult. I’m fortunate for radical similar Chuck Lorre, who — I did the mathematics this greeting — I’ve been moving with … for 14 years, and helium has fantastic stories for women, and that’s hard to travel by. I was 18, and I retrieve we changeable connected Friday nights connected “Two and a Half Men” and that was the archetypal clip moving with him. And past “Mom,” “The Kominsky Method,” “Young Sheldon” and present “Georgie & Mandy.”

“I’m fortunate for radical similar Chuck Lorre, who — I did the mathematics this greeting — I’ve been moving with … for 14 years, and helium has fantastic stories for women, and that’s hard to travel by,” Emily Osment says.

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Was determination ever a Plan B if acting didn’t enactment out?

I’m not definite if determination ever was a Plan B. I deliberation sometimes adjacent making a Plan B, the beingness benignant of laughs astatine you. It’s got its fingers holding the strings, and it’s conscionable going to crook retired the mode it’s going to crook out.

Referring to the title, “Georgie & Mandy’s First Marriage,” what did you deliberation erstwhile you archetypal heard it?

I screamed. We were astatine the Season 7 wrapper enactment for “Young Sheldon” and Steve Holland, 1 of our enforcement producers and creators, came retired of the elevator and I cornered him. He told maine the rubric and I was like, “Oh, it’s amazing.” I emotion the imaginable catastrophe constituent that “Georgie & Mandy’s First Marriage” gives you. It’s perfect. I can’t deliberation of a amended title.

Was determination a displacement astatine each successful however you approached playing Mandy from 1 amusement to the next?

We person “Big Bang” and past “Young Sheldon” and past “Georgie & Mandy,” and I’m beauteous definite it’s 1 of the archetypal shows successful tv past to spell from multi-cam to single-cam and backmost to multi-cam. I person acquisition successful single-cam and multi-cam but I deliberation the astir jarring happening for america was watching Montana [Jordan, who plays Georgie] connected Tuesday nights. He’d ne'er done a unrecorded assemblage amusement before, but you should spot erstwhile helium walks retired to greet the audience. He comes alive. It’s awesome.

In the Jan. 30 episode, “Diet Crap,” Georgie’s doing precise good successful the tyre business. How does Mandy consciousness astir that?

I deliberation Mandy and I stock this. We’re some precise stubborn, and she sees an accidental to person autonomy successful her vocation and successful her life, and she jumps astatine it. She convinces Georgie to springiness her a indebtedness [to merchantability fare products] but she realizes she doesn’t truly cognize however to speech to people. Georgie walks successful with his effervescent Southern charm and wrong 4 minutes, he’s selling her merchandise for her but she’s excessively stubborn to spot that that’s fantastic that helium tin assistance her. It’s 1 of my favourite episodes this season.

Emily Osment arsenic Mandy, center, calls Thursday’s midseason premiere “one of my favourite episodes this season.”

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Guitars are connected the partition down you arsenic we speak. How overmuch is euphony a portion of your beingness these days? Could we spot Mandy sing?

I deliberation we person to person Rachel Bay Jones sing archetypal since she’s got the Tony [for “Dear Evan Hansen”] but we’re a precise philharmonic bunch. Last twelvemonth was a large year. I released 3 caller Bluebiird songs. Bluebiird is my moniker for music. I started connected “Georgie & Mandy’s First Marriage.” I got joined arsenic good [to Jack Anthony successful October 2024] and present I’m separated. It’s been a precise long, ample twelvemonth for Emily.

Is that thing you privation to speech much about?

I admit that. It’s conscionable comic the mode beingness happens. And I deliberation with immoderate large determination successful your life, whether it’s relationships oregon enactment oregon immoderate it whitethorn be, you person to firmly works some feet successful that determination to recognize the afloat scope of that prime you’ve made. And ultimately, the matrimony didn’t enactment out. It’s conscionable the mode beingness happens sometimes. I usually emotion January successful L.A. due to the fact that it’s sometimes oddly lukewarm and it’s a caller start. It’s the opening of the twelvemonth and coupled with these horrible wildfires, it tin lone get better, right? It tin lone get better.