After five seasons of Young & Hungry, Emily Osment looks back fondly on her experience playing the loveable, mischievous, but always good intentioned, Gabi Diamond. The show, inspired by San Francisco food blogger Gabi Moskowitz, took audiences through the ever-changing romance between chef Gabi Diamond (Emily Osment) and her rich tech mogul boss Josh Kaminski (Jonathan Sadowski). Along for the ride were Gabi’s roommate and bestie Sofia Rodriguez (Aimee Carrero), Josh’s housekeeper Yolanda (Kym Whitley) and publicist Elliot Park (Rex Lee).
Tell me what it was to be on this show and have the role of Gabi Diamond to sink into. You essentially have grown up in front of the camera going all the way back to Disney Channel’s Hannah Montana. However, in Young & Hungry you’re a twentysomething dealing with these young adult issues.
It was wonderful. It was interesting to go from a four-camera sitcom to a single-camera comedy. That’s always fun. It’s a much longer day, but you get a couple of chances at it. Whereas when you are doing our live show you have a couple of chances, and that’s it. I remember going home a couple of times and kicking myself for not making a certain choice. When you’re doing a single camera comedy, you have a lot more time to make decisions. It was wonderful working with Michael Douglas. I played in his golf tournament like 10 years ago with my brother [actor Haley Joel Osment]. We would talk about golf a lot. Alan Arkin is so cute. I know it’s weird for me to call him cute, but he is adorable. The cast with all of the guys in the acting studio, we’re actually really close still. We’re excited to see if we will come back for season two.
I still have my old crappy IKEA furniture in my garage from my dressing room. I don’t know if that counts. I wrote my name on the inside of the wall of the window frame in my dressing room. It probably got painted over, but I kind of hid it in a spot. Hopefully, that’s still there. I still have my wig that I wore on the show. Some outfits I loved. I wore these shoes that I wore in every single scene. I actually still have the shoes that I wore in the pilot. It seems like a weird thing to remember, but when you’re walking around, and your feet hurt for eight hours, it’s hard to forget them.We really didn’t get a chance to take anything, but I didn’t really need to. I remember it fondly, and right now, it wasn’t that long ago. I do still have the script from the pilot that I got framed, which is cool. It was an odd thing to have end and the way it did. So, I’m excited to see if we get the chance to really wrap it up again.