Emily Arlook sat down with HL EXCLUSIVELY to talk about her new coming-of-age movie ‘Big Time Adolescence’ and Nomi’s pregnancy storyline on ‘grown-ish.’

The movie follows 16-year-old Mo, who navigates the highs (sometimes literally) and lows with his older best friend Zeke. Although Zeke cares about Mo, his life lessons send Mo down a path full of trouble. Emily plays Mo’s older sister and Zeke’s ex-girlfriend. Zeke may be a troublemaker and unmotivated, but he’s charming as hell. “I feel like there was more than one Zeke in my life,” Emily said. “Those are definitely the types of people that it’s easy to gravitate towards at a specific moment in one’s life when you’re really impressionable. It’s a very alluring type of personality.”

In addition to Big Time Adolescence, Emily also stars as Nomi in the hit Freeform series grown-ish. The third seasonstarted with the big reveal that Nomi is pregnant! This is a game-changing storyline for her character and Emily has fully embraced it. “I was happy because it’s such an amazing storyline to get to play, and it’s such a powerful storyline,” Emily told HollywoodLife. “Grown-ish excels at discussing real-life topics of what’s going on a college campus and pregnancy is one of those things. I kind of figured why shy away from something that’s so prevalent on college campuses, and I thought it was great that it was Nomi because I think she was kind of the least expected.”

Emily stars alongside Yara Shahidi, Trevor Jackson, Luka Sabbat, Francia Raisa, and more in the critically-acclaimed Freeform series. The grown-ish cast is truly one of the most talented ensembles of young talent in Hollywood right now. “I truly feel like I won the lottery with this job because the show in and of itself is amazing,” Emily said. “But more than that, the people that I work with literally are like family. We’re so connected. We text all the time — working or not. We’re each other’s biggest fans. It makes work really fun because it just feels like we’re hanging out.”
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