Carrie Preston Looks Back on "Emeril" (2001) and "Crowded" (2016)

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Emeril

"Emeril had never acted though, so he really leaned on all of us around him," Preston says of being cast on chef Emeril Lagasse's NBC sitcom alongside Robert Urich, Lisa Ann Walter, and Sherri Shepherd.

"And he would come in and be stressed out, and he would say, 'Oh, I couldn't sleep last night, so I made you guys some gumbo.' And then he would haul this huge vat of gumbo in front of us, and we would all get to eat."



Sadly the series premiered just a few weeks after Sept. 11, 2001 and only lasted seven episodes.

"It just was totally not the right time for a show about a chef," says Preston. "It just didn't hit the right."







Crowded

"Getting back into that four camera universe really fed my theater hunger," Preston says of starring with Patrick Warburton as empty nesters whose adult daughters (Mia Serafino and Miranda Cosgrove) and in-laws (Stacy Keach and Carlease Burke) suddenly move in.

"We only got to do the one season, but it was certainly something that I'm grateful for because it brought me into the world of playing the leading lady. I had definitely been working towards that, and hoping for something like that — and it's not that I hadn't auditioned for many of those, but this one came along and it just was a really good fit for what I had to offer and for what they were looking for."

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