The life of Lily Collins

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She's best known as "Emily in Paris." But the daughter of musician Phil Collins has been acting since she was 2 years old.   This is the story of Lily Collins.

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00:00I remember not really understanding what I guess he did. I knew that he sang and stuff,

00:18but I didn't realize the scope of it. And I think there was one day I was in the crowd

00:24watching and I was just like, I kind of looked around and he was on stage and it was kind

00:28of this moment like you're saying of, oh, they're here for him. Not just me here for

00:33him. They're all here for him. But again, he's always been very personable with fans

00:38and with all that. So that taught me a lot.

00:44I was in the show Growing Pains here in England and I played Abigail and I just recently saw

00:51for the first time the episodes.

01:21I haven't encountered someone saying physically to me, you have to lose weight for this part.

01:34I modeled for a while and it was more self-imposed, I think, that I wanted to fit this mold of

01:41what I thought perfect was. And I've been vocal about talking about that also in my

01:44book about reaching perfection and what I thought that meant. And I thought that kind

01:50of size dictated that and what was pretty to look at.

02:21I've been very vocal about the fact that I went through reading disorders as well and

02:25I think that to take a topic like this and make it mainstream in a way that doesn't caricaturize

02:31it, it doesn't tutorialize anything, it just breathes life into a subject matter that is

02:37considered quite taboo to talk about today. I just thought it would be a really therapeutic

02:41experience for me. Of course it was slightly terrifying as well, but at the end of the

02:47day to be able to say that I did it and to say that I got to tell that story in this

02:51manner, I was really proud. It was a pretty cool moment at the end of it.

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