Coraline a Family Affair for Teri Hatcher and Emerson

It looks like there might be another star in the Hatcher household. Teri Hatcher’s 11-year-old daughter Emerson makes his film debut voicing a character in her mom’s new movie Coraline. It was a fantastic opportunity, but not one Teri embraced wholeheartedly.

“I’m very much not a believer in children working,” she told MoviesOnline.ca. “When I talk to her about it, I say, ‘There’s just your whole life, your whole life to be rejected and responsible and have to pay a mortgage and all kinds of things like [that].’”

But ultimately Emerson’s desire to try something new won out.

“We travel so much together around the world and do charitable things together and live all sorts of luxury experiences, and then very down to just camping with nothing experiences,” Teri said. ”So I believe in children having experiences.”

Emerson, who was “just entranced,” was approached by director Henry Selick “on a lark” as she waited for her mom to record her lines.

“There was no guarantee she was going to be in the movie, there was no one said that, it was just sort of … an experience and a mother-daughter thing,” Teri explained. ”Ironically it’s a mother-daughter movie that she got to experience.”

Emerson is Teri’s daughter with ex-husband Jon Tenney. Coraline is in theaters now.

Image source: Pacific Coast News