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Hilary Duff is joined by her son Luca in her studio to discuss her new album ‘luck.. or something,’ her historic career and their household dynamic for Billboard Family.
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00:00Are you not going to say anything about what I'm wearing?
00:03It's just not. It's not it.
00:04What?
00:05Arsenal, it's not it.
00:06What are you wearing?
00:08Real Madrid. I'm not a fan of them, by the way.
00:10No.
00:11You don't want to give anybody the wrong idea?
00:13No, no.
00:14I wore a soccer jersey.
00:16Yeah, but at least make it a Man City jersey.
00:19Arsenal's trash.
00:19I didn't sit and sew this, but I did think you were going to be excited by it, and you're
00:23like...
00:26It's just not it.
00:30Hi, I'm Luca, and today I'm interviewing my mom for Billboard Family.
00:35Hi, Mom.
00:36Hi, Luca.
00:37You're releasing a new album, Luck or Something.
00:39When did you start making this song?
00:41I think it was about just over a year ago when the first ideas were kind of starting to take
00:50shape.
00:50You probably remember being in the kitchen and hearing stuff on our phones.
00:54That was like the first kind of like initial sounds that we were like toying with.
01:00Remember?
01:00Yeah, I think so.
01:01I think it was like over a year ago.
01:08How did you choose the album title?
01:12I just want to let all the listeners know that in the car I asked Luca if he knew the
01:16title
01:16of my album.
01:17Oh, oh.
01:18Wait, what?
01:19And he didn't.
01:21Okay, okay.
01:22So it goes to show you, I would play you guys songs in the car on the way to school,
01:26but
01:26like you don't know the title of my new album, which is...
01:28You just never told me it.
01:30You didn't.
01:31Fine.
01:32It's just what it is.
01:33It's too fast.
01:33The title is, so you know, called Luck or something.
01:37I think for me it's like a little playful and a little tongue-in-cheek and kind of answering
01:44a question that I've been asked a lot, which is like, how have you stayed normal and sane
01:51through, you know, being in like a pretty intense industry for such a long time?
01:56Yeah.
01:56It's taken a lot of work to get here, and I think that it's not easy to navigate the
02:04like, or something feels very textured and weighted because that's where like a lot of
02:09the experience and like growth has come from.
02:11What's your favorite memory from your making the album?
02:14From your making the album?
02:15My favorite memory?
02:16From making the album, yes.
02:18From making the album, what's your favorite memory?
02:20Stop laughing at me.
02:21You're the boy.
02:21Okay, it's just you're cute and I'm happy that you're here.
02:24Sorry.
02:25Okay.
02:25This feels maybe boring and like non-inclusive, but I honestly think that once there was enough
02:33songs to play from like leaving the studio to get home, there was like maybe like, what
02:41is that, like six songs or something?
02:42Yeah.
02:43I was alone in my car and I started to like feel how real it was and that like I
02:52really
02:52loved everything that was on the record so far.
02:57I think that was my favorite moment.
02:59I think I was like, oh shit.
03:00This is going to happen and people are going to probably feel how I feel like listening
03:06to this.
03:07And it felt so me and pretty like raw and I think that was probably my favorite memory
03:17making the record.
03:18Yeah.
03:18Outside of like being excited in the studio and like finding something that felt like it
03:22was good and like you were on the right path.
03:24Just processing it by myself and like realizing what was ahead and what could be I think was
03:29really exciting.
03:30What was it like working with Matt on this album?
03:33Entertaining.
03:34I mean, don't you think he's a pretty entertaining guy?
03:36Always.
03:36He keeps us laughing.
03:37He made it really safe.
03:38Like he's so good at what he does.
03:40He wanted this to be an experience for me that was like fully my own and like directed
03:45by me.
03:46Like I got to drive the ship and he was happy to like let me have that experience for the
03:50first time.
03:51This was like totally like put the gates up, like create it, take it to a label or take
03:57it, you know, for outside opinions.
03:58How is it different to create this album versus your past albums?
04:03I think when I was younger, it was just not being as steady on my feet and like believing
04:08in myself.
04:08You take a lot of like outside opinions and a lot of like industry people being like,
04:13you should work with this person because they have like mad hits right now or they're
04:17like, you know, Sweden's doing all the pop music.
04:19I don't want to say like birthing it because that's weird, but just like doing, doing all
04:25of it and like, yeah, protecting all of it, not like swinging for a hit.
04:30That's what this whole album felt like.
04:32It felt like I got to like create my own lane and that's not to say that you can't compare
04:36it to other pop songs because pop is popular and of course you're like influenced by what
04:40you hear, but it feels like my old self and my new self like blended together.
04:47What do you think?
04:48Obviously, you know, some of my old stuff and now, you know, some of my new stuff.
04:51Like, I like it because like it does blend together a lot and it kind of like keeps it
04:55like, keeps it like well balanced.
04:59So nice.
05:00Yeah.
05:05Does my voice sound different than my old music?
05:08Like a little bit just because you're older, but like it's not like, well, it's not like
05:12a bad thing.
05:12No, I think it's a better thing.
05:13Yeah, I feel like more confident.
05:16I don't need to like reach as far.
05:19My reach is my reach and like, I'm cool in that zone.
05:21Kind of staying on like the similar, like a similar topic.
05:24Like, who would you want to like collab with?
05:26A little teka.
05:30That's a good one.
05:30I like that one.
05:31You remember when I text you when he like responded to your birthday post?
05:36Yeah, I was in Washington.
05:37Yeah, you were like on a class trip and I was so excited.
05:40It was like the first moment that I was excited that you actually had a cell phone and
05:43I could reach you because little teka comments.
05:45You're like, that's crazy.
05:46That's crazy.
05:47That he commented on your birthday post?
05:49Yeah.
05:49So I'm really into it.
05:51I still am, but like I'll be really.
05:53I know.
05:54What about something you haven't achieved yet that you're hoping to?
05:58I don't think I've had my dream acting role yet.
06:01I don't think I've had like my dream director.
06:03Yeah.
06:04And like my dream project.
06:06And then the like follow-up question is always like, well, what is that?
06:08Who do you want to play?
06:09And I'm like.
06:10That's like too fun.
06:10I don't really like sit around.
06:12Thinking about that.
06:13Thinking about that.
06:14Like our household is so busy, isn't it?
06:16Yeah.
06:17Yeah.
06:17I think one thing that's been, that's a little challenging when I get on set is people assume
06:24because I've done this for so long that I just know exactly what I'm doing.
06:26Yeah.
06:27And I do for the most part like feel comfortable on camera or like know how to bring what I
06:32bring to a script.
06:33But like really like deep diving into a character and having that like really in-depth conversations
06:40with directors about a role and being really directed.
06:45I think I like, I'm really excited about something like that happening in the future.
06:49Would you ever want to be an actor?
06:52I don't know.
06:54I mean, maybe.
06:54But like I've never like found it like always like super connecting to me.
07:01Yeah.
07:01But I mean, maybe.
07:03What about a model?
07:05I would do that.
07:06I mean, I would do something like some role.
07:09There are some shoots.
07:12Yeah.
07:12I mean, yeah.
07:13I like, I want to keep doing it.
07:15So soccer player and model?
07:17Yeah.
07:18It's the dream.
07:20It's a good dream.
07:21Yeah.
07:21Okay.
07:21Okay.
07:22This is a good one.
07:23This is a good one.
07:24I think.
07:25Do you have a standout career moment or memory?
07:28That's hard.
07:29Do I have a standout career moment or memory?
07:31Okay.
07:32I have two, I think.
07:33Yeah.
07:33When I was younger, I played the Houston rodeo and like I'm from Houston and it was a hundred
07:38thousand people plus like huge, huge, huge.
07:41Yeah.
07:42I don't really remember the performance part, but I do remember like they put you in a car
07:45and drive you around the arena to like wave to everybody and it just smells like cow manure
07:51and dirt.
07:52Smells like cow manure?
07:53Yeah.
07:53You're in a rodeo.
07:55Oh, it's like, oh wow.
07:56That's crazy.
07:56So they have like a performance.
07:58He's never been to a rodeo, but you guys, what am I even doing?
08:01Why would I go to a rodeo?
08:03I mean, I grew up going to rodeos.
08:05That's where I'm from, but you're an LA boy.
08:07So you haven't been there.
08:07I mean, like rodeo, you just watch like bowls or what?
08:10Yeah.
08:10You watch like people.
08:11I mean, it's really sad.
08:12I think it's sad now.
08:13Try to like stay on the bowl and wrangle caps and stuff.
08:17It's really sad.
08:18And my parents used to feed me calf fries.
08:22You ever heard of that?
08:23Calf fries?
08:24Yeah.
08:24And they told me they were chicken tenders.
08:26They are not.
08:27Baby.
08:28Not baby.
08:29Keep going.
08:29What else could it be?
08:31Baby calf.
08:31Calf.
08:32It's a portion of the calf.
08:36Balls.
08:38Yeah.
08:38Oh, that's nasty.
08:40That's disgusting.
08:41I know.
08:41And I, my parents.
08:42So gross.
08:43I know.
08:44And I ate them and I thought they were chicken tenders.
08:47Are you getting angry or what?
08:49Devastated.
08:50How would you feel?
08:51I wouldn't feel good if you lied to me and made me eat.
08:55Calf fries they're called.
08:57Cowballs.
08:58I don't know why I eat that.
08:59Maybe we should say testicles.
09:00I don't know.
09:01What's, what's better?
09:02I don't know.
09:03Anyway, I still played the rodeo.
09:05I didn't eat calf fries that time because I was old enough to know better.
09:08That was like a standout moment in like my young, my young life.
09:12Yeah.
09:12Because I felt like really proud to do that in my hometown.
09:15As an adult, a standout moment.
09:18I know it was small, but the underplays that I just did.
09:22Like, yeah, going back into it.
09:24Meant so much to me.
09:25Going back into it, feeling the like support and the like.
09:29Like all your fans.
09:30Yeah, it was really, I keep saying a warm welcome, but it was just like a really, like.
09:38I mean, it was, yeah.
09:39It was.
09:40It was so nice.
09:42And I feel like I could go, and my shoulders dropped like three inches and I was just like
09:46going to be okay.
09:47Yeah.
09:47Remember when you took a video of me on your phone?
09:50And you showed it to me?
09:52And you're like, I took this cute video.
09:54Okay.
09:54It was just one video for like three seconds.
09:57It was a good video.
09:58I was proud that you cared enough to put a video of me on your phone.
10:01It was probably just a confetti.
10:04Yeah, well, it was.
10:05It was so much video.
10:06It was cool.
10:07Cool picture.
10:12What's it like performing what dreams are made of over 20 years after the Lizzie McGuire
10:18movie was released?
10:19Do you know anything about that song?
10:21Yeah, I watched the movie.
10:23You like showed it to me when I was a little.
10:25Uh-huh.
10:31I never performed that song when I was younger, when I was children.
10:33Because it was like Lizzie.
10:35Oh, yeah.
10:36It wasn't like you.
10:36So I think I had like certain feelings around it.
10:40Yeah, because you wanted to like staple your name instead of Lizzie.
10:43That's right.
10:44I did.
10:44I really wanted people to like know and care about me.
10:48As you.
10:49As me.
10:50So it was just something I like didn't really claim.
10:52And now all these years later, I think it feels like I can enjoy with everyone else and
11:00claim it and have it be mine and know that I was a part of something that was
11:03really important and like loved, but be loved by people.
11:14I'm so happy to have this experience and like include it.
11:19And it feels like a full circle moment where like a lot of healing has taken place.
11:24You had a question on there from earlier that was like, what's your like favorite thing
11:28about our household?
11:29And I was just curious.
11:30What is your favorite thing about our household?
11:31Me?
11:31Yeah.
11:32My PlayStation.
11:33No, I'm joking.
11:33I'm joking.
11:34I wouldn't be surprised.
11:36No, probably like how like connected we are and like how we're always hanging out with
11:41each other as like a family.
11:42That's really sweet.
11:44But sometimes hard to like, we have a bunch of stuff going on always.
11:47Yeah.
11:47We're super busy.
11:48Yeah.
11:49By the way, it's totally fine that you like your PlayStation so much right now, but it
11:52is a big shift for me.
11:54Why?
11:54You have to like understand like.
11:56I do.
11:57And I, I do.
11:57But then I know that I like try to force you to come hang out with me.
12:00And sometimes you do and sometimes you don't.
12:02If you like try to take away my phone, like you do everything you can to like make me
12:08do a mistake to take away my phone.
12:09But sometimes I'm clever about it.
12:11Yeah.
12:11At least you know what I'm doing.
12:12It's always obvious.
12:12Like I always know you're trying to do it.
12:14Like what?
12:15You'll tell me like do something one time and you're like, I asked you three times,
12:20you can use phone.
12:21I'm like, what?
12:23I asked you two times to pick up your room yesterday.
12:27And then I just fluffed the story a little by saying three times.
12:30I don't know.
12:32I don't know.
12:34I love when we like open the doors to the back of the house and it's just like a casual
12:39like soccer, like all the kids are like playing soccer.
12:41And usually there's like someone in the way of the goal, but you like have family hanging
12:45from the backyard.
12:46And I also love when you guys run over the couch.
12:50Oh, yeah.
12:51And I'm just still waiting for like you guys to validate the fact that it was a better
12:56couch than our old couch because you guys were so hard on me about changing the couch
13:00and now you can run over the back of it.
13:02I know, but like it's uncomfortable, the couch.
13:04It's like fuzzy and like, I don't like it.
13:07Like it's just like isn't comfortable.
13:09Like I have to put like a blanket over it.
13:10Yeah, but I can put like a blanket over it and we can't like eat on it and we could
13:13with our last couch.
13:14You guys eat on it all the time.
13:17It's how we like.
13:17Maymay's number one trick is to leave a water bottle that has like chocolate milk in it
13:21and it just slowly dribbles out and is like behind a pillow.
13:24I wrote about that one time when I spilled like a bunch of miso soup on it.
13:27It was an explosion.
13:29I love that you said you guys can't eat on it.
13:31Well, we don't eat on it that often.
13:33We have to.
13:34What?
13:35We like eat on the like the glass like table.
13:40You guys also get to run on.
13:43Yeah, because it's like it's dirty.
13:48I'll come to Lausanne, like in like Europe and stuff.
13:51I want to go to like England and stuff.
13:54Yeah, basically Luca just wants to go to anything that's happening in Europe and try to align
13:59it with soccer games, which I understand.
14:02We'll definitely get to have some of those experiences, which is fun.
14:04In the summer, you'll come out on tour and maybe you'll like bring a friend.
14:09But I'm going to be at camp now.
14:11Yeah.
14:11I feel like it's important for you guys to witness some of it, but like also keep your
14:17life as normal as possible.
14:19Yeah.
14:19Structured as possible.
14:20It's hard.
14:22You are a teenager now, so you want to be like with your friends and I totally understand
14:27that.
14:27But you definitely have to like come out to Madison Square Garden.
14:31Where?
14:33In New York.
14:34Oh.
14:34I don't know.
14:35I don't know.
14:35We can go get your favorite olive sourdough loaf in Brooklyn.
14:39Yeah, it's so good.
14:40I'm going to be spending a little bit more time away, but you know that.
14:44Yeah.
14:45Okay.
14:46Do you think our life is going to change a lot?
14:48No, I do because like you're going to be everywhere and like a lot of like flying
14:53and stuff.
14:55Mm-hmm.
14:55Yeah.
14:56I don't know how the girls are going to like fly for like 13 hours.
14:59Did I even tell you that we got stuck in Toronto?
15:01I did.
15:02And that we couldn't fly?
15:03Well, it was snowing like crazy, right?
15:05Yeah.
15:06So like the East Coast was just a crazy blizzard and all the flights were grounded.
15:11And so we had to rent tour buses and drive from Toronto to New York, which was like
15:19normally like can be like eight to 10 hours.
15:21It was a little longer, but it wasn't so bad.
15:23It was like maybe 12 hours on the bus.
15:26The girls were good.
15:27Honestly, they were.
15:28Yeah.
15:28We like bought a bunch of games.
15:30They also probably just watched their iPad for the whole time.
15:32They watched their iPads for probably like a good two and a half hours.
15:36Maymay watches the weirdest stuff on there.
15:38Like random like Olympic games, like in Russian.
15:42I know.
15:43And also she was watching something with Hebrew subtitles the other day and Matt was so proud.
15:50Like I don't even know if she knows what she's watching.
15:54She's watching it because it's like blowing screen.
15:57I need to watch.
15:58But they were in the bunks.
16:00Have you been in a tour bus before?
16:02So there's like you walk in and there's like a living room and then there's like a kitchen
16:06and bathroom.
16:08And then there's like a whole long hallway that's just like shelves of bunks.
16:13Oh, so it's like a mini house.
16:14And the bunks are actually so comfortable.
16:16So the girls thought they had like a little mouse house and they were happy in there.
16:20And then there's like a room in the back that has like a TV and whatever.
16:23I think you'll like it for a little while and then you'll be like.
16:26It's like those like, have you seen those like pods in like Japan or like, you know those?
16:33Have you seen that?
16:34Yeah.
16:35Like those hotels in there, just a little pod.
16:37Yes.
16:38It's like that, but you're not solo.
16:40Yeah.
16:40You're with others.
16:42Yeah.
16:42Luca really wants me to have a Japanese minivan because they're so cool.
16:48And he's always like showing me videos.
16:50They like slide out, they turn to like, like these like chairs, these like, they like turn
16:55these chairs that like fully go around, recline and like the whole table comes out.
17:01And the whole entire door.
17:02Like it's not just like a big TV that drops down.
17:05So cool.
17:05Yeah.
17:06And I'm like, what happens when the car needs to be serviced?
17:09Where do you take it?
17:10Here?
17:10I mean, they gotta have like a, like.
17:11No, he's really into that.
17:12They gotta have some like Japanese like car, like.
17:16How often do you think that I get tricked by AI?
17:19A good amount.
17:19Like, like, like 50 to 60% of the time you do.
17:23Like I showed you this like one where like, there's like raccoons that come onto a trampoline
17:28and they start like jumping up and down and you like believed it.
17:31And what was the one that I get so upset by?
17:34Oh, well, that's not AI.
17:35That's just like camera.
17:38That YouTuber that you like.
17:39It's like, he like has his frog at an angle.
17:42Oh, oh, oh.
17:42He makes it look like he has this like giant frog and it's so cute.
17:45And then you zoom out and it's just a normal size, totally normal frog.
17:49And it's so upsetting.
17:51Yeah.
17:51It's such a trick.
17:52Oh, I already asked you if you were gonna, if you thought about acting ever and you said
17:57no.
17:58But you actually have a pretty good voice.
17:59Yeah.
18:00But I don't know.
18:01It's just like.
18:02Do you get nervous being on camera?
18:05No.
18:05Like.
18:06What about when you modeled?
18:08No, because you kind of just like, like if they say something to do, you just can't
18:11do it.
18:12Just like a proper child actor.
18:14You got the stuff.
18:18What advice do you have for anyone hoping to break into the industry?
18:23Oh my gosh.
18:25This question always stumps me because one, I feel like it was a lot harder a long time
18:31ago when I was getting into it.
18:33Yeah.
18:33And now there's social media.
18:35So you can like have a platform.
18:37And if you have, I don't want to say like a shtick because that's not necessarily what
18:44it takes, but just people have gotten so clever and so good at making their social medias
18:50like splash and like make an impact.
18:52So I would say that that's your best way to get eyes on what you're doing.
18:59And then past that point, like stay true, you know, it's so silly, but that's absolutely
19:07the fact.
19:08Like you've got to be genuine and you have to be authentic because in this day and age
19:15people can sense what's false, you know, and what's not true.
19:19So believe in yourself and you, you know, using TikTok or whatever it could be to just try
19:29to get eyes on, on you is like probably the best way and just to keep working on your
19:35talents, work hard.
19:37There's no way around hard work.
19:39That's for sure.
19:40Thanks for interviewing me.
19:41Yeah.
19:42I loved picking you up from soccer and then you interviewing me and then us going to more
19:46soccer for you.
19:47A little bit too.
19:48I love it too.
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