Mandy Moore talks difference between music and acting ahead of her first new album in 11 years

With Mandy Moore getting ready to release her first new album in 11 years, Silver Landings, on March 6, the singer has opened up about the difference between music and acting.

The 35-year-old singer and This Is Us star appeared on Apple’s Music Chart show, where she added how lucky she is to pursue both creative endeavors.

She said that while she believes her role as Rebecca Pearson on This Is Us is, ‘literally the best job I’ve ever had,’ there’s something else she gets from music. 

‘You know what? I feel so lucky. I have this other side of my job that literally is the best job I’ve ever had,’ Moore said about her role on This Is Us.

‘I’m so creatively fulfilled. I love the people I work with. I love the material I get to work with. It’s like I’m able to really pour so much of myself into that, but music is a whole other being,’ she added.

‘It is truly me. I’m not hiding behind a character or someone else’s words,’ the singer-actress added.

‘And, again, I love that part of my life and that part of being an artist, but there’s nothing that can replicate that rush of adrenaline, of being on stage and singing your own words,’ Moore clarified.

‘There’s nothing like it. So I feel like the luckiest person in the world because I get to have that duality and that balance in my life,’ she said.

Moore’s career started in music, signing with Epic Records after a FedEx delivery man overheard her singing and introduced her to an A&R exec at the label when she was in her early teens.

Moore released her first three albums in as many years, 1999’s So Real, 2000’s I Wanna Be With You and her self-titled Mandy Moore in 2001.

She began her foray into acting as Lana Thomas in 2001’s The Princess Diaries and then in 2002’s A Walk To Remember and Try Seventeen.

Her album releases were more sporadic with Coverage in 2003, Wild Hope in 2007 and Amanda Leigh in 2009, her last album until Silver Landings, which debuts on March 6.