It’s starting to look rather a lot like Hallmark Channel’s Countdown to Christmas! Since some stars have been a part of the community’s vacation programming for greater than a decade, Us Weekly is rounding up potential sequels for Andrew Walker, Nikki DeLoach, Aimee Teegarden and extra to revisit.
Each DeLoach and Teegarden advised Us that they’re right down to work with Walker once more.
“They’re all so fantastic and particular in their very own proper. The one which I did final yr is coming to thoughts — the one which I did with Andrew Walker. It was actually enjoyable. And it was actually about this household and located household,” the Friday Night time Lights alum completely advised Us about 2021’s My Christmas Household Tree at Hallmark Channel’s Countdown to Christmas pink carpet occasion at Radio Metropolis Music Corridor final month. “I’d like to see what they might do with a sequel.”
DeLoach, in the meantime, has a pitch able to revisit 2016’s A Dream of Christmas, which adopted her character, Penny, making a want to be single once more amid a lull in her marriage to Walker’s Stuart.
“I need to do one with them 10 years later — they’ve three children. They’re in that place of their lives the place their children have taken over all the pieces, they don’t have anything left to offer for themselves. The romance is gone. After which the man makes the want,” the actress defined. “So he goes on the journey and has to seek out his method again to me and my household.”
Walker additionally named the A Dream of Christmas when requested the identical query. “I’m a dad now, it hits otherwise. I wasn’t a father at the moment,” he stated, referring to sons Wes and Wolf with spouse Cassandra Walker.
The actor and DeLoach have labored collectively a number of instances over time, additionally teaming up for 2017’s The Good Catch and 2020’s Candy Autumn. Most just lately, they debuted Curious Caterer: Dying for Chocolate in April. When requested whether or not the thriller movies might turn into a franchise, DeLoach gave Us a wink.
For now, nonetheless, she’s gearing up for the discharge of The Present of Peace with Brennan Elliott.
“It’s the most emotional film I’ve ever completed for Hallmark. A love story is just not the A-story line. It’s a couple of group of individuals which can be in a grief assist group and so they’re all coping with differing ranges of grief — some seven years and a few weeks,” she defined. “My character is 2 years into the lack of her husband and grieving him, very caught — can’t transfer ahead in her work, in life, nothing. And so, a buddy encourages her to go to this grief assist group. She reluctantly goes and what she finds — which is ironic, but in addition not as a result of God — what she finds is that by sharing your story, by permitting another person that will help you carry your grief, that’s the place the therapeutic is. I misplaced my dad final yr in July, my North Star. And I got here into this film, very caught, and not likely realizing how you can transfer ahead. I couldn’t discover the enjoyment I couldn’t discover happiness. I simply felt like I used to be sort of in quicksand on a regular basis. And this film, taking part in this character, sitting round and simply sharing tales off display on display, I got here out of this film seeing the sunshine on the finish, discovering the hope, realizing I’m by no means going to not be in grief, however now I’ve some individuals which can be going to assist me carry this factor. And it was very therapeutic.”
Walker, for his half, may be seen in two new Christmas films this yr — Maple Valley Christmas and Three Smart Males and a Child. He gushed to Us concerning the latter.
“That is most likely among the finest scripts I’ve ever learn. And it simply so occurs that Paul [Campbell], being a buddy, being a man that I’ve identified within the business and wished to work with him for therefore a few years [wrote it]. I’m lucky sufficient to be part of the story and Kimberly, his writing associate — actually the brains behind the operation right here however he’s the seems to be,” Walker quipped throughout the joint interview with Campbell. “That is actually a particular movie and we’re excited to see how the followers reply to it.”
Campbell admitted that he, Walker and Tyler Hynes felt “a lot strain” to make a film for the followers of the trio to take pleasure in. “Genuinely, [we felt] a lot strain to ship — I really feel like we did. I’m simply gonna say it!” the actor and co-writer, declared.
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