Selena Gomez recalls 'crying so much' during “Only Murders ”mom monologue that she made Steve Martin cry too

Only Murders in the Building isn't just a comedic murder mystery — it's also an occasional tearjerker.

Selena Gomez has experienced this firsthand, as she recently told Saoirse Ronan during their chat for Variety's Actors on Actors series. The Emilia Pérez star shared that while she doesn't usually have trouble shaking off the heavy emotions of any particular scene, there was one Only Murders monologue that not only left an impact on her but got her costar Steve Martin teary-eyed, too.

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"It was a scene — that's gonna make me cry now," she began, pausing to take a breath. "There's a scene where my mother in the show says a little bit about my past and how I've been a bit troubled. The actress who played the mother had my mom's name, so when people would call her name on set, I'd always turn thinking, 'That's my mom.'"

Gomez shared that the added layer of connection made it all the more emotional when her onscreen mother delivered a speech that hit close to home.

"She said this beautiful monologue that was very much what my mom would say," Gomez shared, adding that it immediately moved her to tears. "I was crying so much that I made Steve cry too because he was like, 'Are you okay?' I was like, 'I miss my mom!'"

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The emotional scene hails from the debut season of Only Murders, and saw Mandy Gonzalez briefly join the cast as Silvia Mora, the mother to Selena's Mabel who questions her own parenting decisions and sheds some light on the ghosts of her daughter's past while asking Martin's Charles and Martin Short's Oliver to stop involving Mabel in their hunt for the building's killer.

Gomez has long been open about her closer relationship with her mother, Mandy Teefey, who had her at 16, often noting that they "grew up together." Elsewhere in her conversation with Ronan, the Wizards of Waverly Place alum praised her mother for being a constant companion and watchful eye who always accompanied her on set once she began her acting career at 7.

"My mom was fantastic," Gomez shared. "She would never ever put me in a room by myself. She was just very aware of things that I didn’t know when I was growing up."

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She added that she now has a lot of "respect" for the way her mother raised her. "For example, if I had to go to a premiere and I was 16, she’d say, 'You can’t go to the after-party. You can just enjoy that, have fun, and then you’re going to go home.' Little things that helped my sanity."

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