Emmy Rossum, 36, Is Playing 27-Year-Old Tom Holland’s Mom On TV — Here’s What She Had To Say About That

Written by on June 5, 2023

I was today years old when I learned that Emmy Rossum is playing Tom Holland’s mom.

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Apparently, they’re both starring in The Crowded Room, a new Apple TV+ limited series drama executive produced by Tom Holland. Tom stars as Danny Sullivan, “a man who is arrested following his involvement in a shooting in New York City in 1979.” Emmy will play his young mother, Candy.

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But, the Shameless actor is only 36 years old.

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And Tom just turned 27 a few days ago.

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This means they have less than 10 years between the two of them. And while it seems a little unbelievable on paper — Emmy wasn’t fazed at all by the improbable age gap.

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In an interview with Entertainment Tonight, Emmy opened up about playing Tom’s “super young” mother. “It makes sense when I read the script,” she said. “Candy’s a super young mom, she’s almost a child in her own right when she becomes pregnant at age 16. You watch as I age from 25 to 35, which is actually younger than I am now.”

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Emmy’s not focused on the small age gap because she “fell in love with the relationship between mother and son and the closeness and everything that they’re grieving in later episodes.”

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She especially loved a scene with Zachary Golinger, who plays a younger version of Tom’s character. “Our relationship was so beautiful, and so I knew everything that we had that I had lost in the scenes with Tom. [It] was really fun,” she said.

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It’ll be interesting to see how this dynamic plays out. The 10-episode limited series will be released on June 9, 2023.

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