Francia Raisa Reveals How Hilary Duff Helped Her ‘Grow Up’ After Feeling ‘Stagnant’ & ‘Immature’

Francia Raisa has graduated from playing (and sometimes, consciousness like) a teen and stepped into her large miss shoes, with a small assistance from her How I Met Your Father co-stars! “Up until this show, I was inactive playing a teenager. I was playing 10 years younger than myself, and 1 of the things that I realized during quarantine is that I had been increasing up successful my profession, successful my idiosyncratic life. I’ve been getting older, but successful my nonrecreational life, I was staying stagnant successful the aforesaid property range,” she explained to HollywoodLife successful an EXCLUSIVE interview. “I learned during quarantine, erstwhile I really got to unrecorded my beingness successful my 30s and I wasn’t going to acceptable with a clump of radical that were 10 years younger than me, that I was precise immature, and I truly rapidly needed to turn up.” 

Francia revealed to HL that erstwhile she got to the acceptable of the How I Met Your Mother spin-off, she yet felt “free successful [her] ain skin.” “We’re each benignant of successful the aforesaid spot professionally, mentally, internally, and I truly wanted to get determination with my formed mates due to the fact that I felt similar I wasn’t determination yet,” she said. “I went done a truly brainsick journey, and I’ve been precise unfastened astir it with Hilary [Duff] and the remainder of the formed astir it, like, ‘Please beryllium diligent with me!’ Even though I’m successful my 30s, this is simply a full caller satellite to maine that I didn’t cognize that I was missing.” 

Francia Raisa & Hilary Duff successful ‘How I Met Your Father.’ (Everett)

She went connected to accidental that the cast, which includes Chris Lowell and Kim Cattrall, simply “respects each other,” which made the occupation adjacent much fun. “We respect each other’s crafts, and we’re each determination to bash a large job. We each attraction astir the amusement equally,” Francia said. “It’s conscionable a antithetic professionalism that I’m experiencing successful an big world. Like with Hilary, specifically, she has been truthful gracious with me… she’s helping maine turn up a small bit.”

“I turned 34 successful July and I privation to marinate successful it and admit it and and person amusive with it for arsenic agelong arsenic I can. I consciousness similar I’m conscionable starting to unrecorded my life. And truthful it’s precise breathtaking to spot wherever tin spell from here,” Francia continued.

Francia Raisa for Ketel One Botanicals. (Courtesy of Ketel One)

As for the upcoming, highly anticipated season 2 of How I Met Your Father, Francia teased that the “scripts are hilarious.” “They’re truly going there. We person immoderate really, truly astonishing impermanent stars that I can’t hold for y’all to see,” the histrion said. She joked that she “came successful to play 2 ace confident, but past [she] got the script.” “It was similar I forgot however to act! But, the infinitesimal I work with Hilary, and I heard her voice and was like, ‘Okay, I got this again.’”

Francia spoke to HollywoodLife successful concern with Ketel One Botanicals, which is her go-to for casual and delicious cocktail making! “I emotion having a cocktail, and it’s truthful airy and truthful casual to marque one. I conscionable request to enactment successful a small soda h2o and garnish successful a vino solid and it looks fancy!” She gushed. “My favourite are the canned ons — they’re truthful good!”