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The big joke of the show is that the parents are never around and seemingly have no idea that their kids are being tormented by an anonymous psycho.
Nia (Emily's mom): Oh yeah. Pam is the stay-at-home, I'm-there-for-my-daughter-24/7, this-is-my-primary-reason-for-existence [parent], and yet she knows nothing! [Laughs] And I'm like, how could that possibly be? So we have to make up these humorous things to help us just be honest in the moment. For me, it was about Pam being gay herself or maybe stripping in the next town over, because she's always gone. Or hooking or something, I don't know!
Do you feel parental toward your on-screen daughters in real life?
Nia (Emily's mom): Shay is so savvy. And she owns what she wants. Period. And me, at 53, I'm still trying to get there. All the girls are a lot more savvy than I was when I was on a show at 22, you know? And Shay is one of those girls who is like, I am a brand and I'm going to own that. And that's why that girl manages her image like crazy. She takes that phone everywhere. Most of the time she'll have somebody with her to take pictures. Every time she's come here to go paddling – and I mean we are literally in the water, she falls in the water, whatever – she's got somebody there taking pictures. And it astounds me, because half of the time I'm like, I live here and I'm in the water all the time and I'm like, oh I don't want my phone. But she is really on it.
Pam, when the show started, your character was very homophobic, and it took you a while to accept Emily coming out. Was it difficult to play that role?
Nia (Emily's mom): Pam and I are very, very different. The one thing we have in common is how deeply we love our children, and that is the thing that I had to tap into in order to bring Pam through the various changes that she had to come through. I was so happy when the writers gave me the scene where I spoke with Paige's dad and stuck up for my daughter and told her, "I don't understand this, but I know who you are." Sometimes it's hard as a parent to admit – or to accept, actually – that we don't know everything. So I was so grateful that they wrote that scene and allowed Pam to make that turn on-screen.
My goal in bringing her through that was to have the audience understand how someone might be that way. I get a lot of tweets from gay teenagers, saying "My parents don't understand me, they hate me..."What I try to have people understand is that [Pam] just didn't know better. Pam did not understand. So know that your parents love you and give them time.
If Rosewood had Parent of the Year awards, who would win?
Nia (Emily's mom): When the season first started, [Emily] was going to live with Hanna and Ashley and I was leaving for Texas. I was thinking, I would leave her with Aria. I would not leave her there. You know? Why would I leave her there with a single mom and a girl who's shoplifting? No!
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