Lacey Chabert and Scott Wolf portrayed siblings for six seasons on Get together of 5 — and the pair are reuniting 23 years later Hallmark’s 2023 Countdown to Christmas.
Chabert, 40, and Wolf, 55 — who starred as Claudia and Bailey Salinger, respectively, on the Fox sequence from 1994 to 2000 — might be paring up as one other sister-brother duo for the brand new authentic film A Merry Scottish Christmas. The movie, which was written by Andrea Canning and Audrey Schulman, will premiere later this yr in the course of the community’s annual vacation programming occasion.
“Scott and I’ve talked for years about doing one other challenge collectively. After we first learn this story about these siblings at a crossroads, we each knew it was the right alternative,” Chabert stated in an official assertion on Tuesday, January 27. Wolf, for his half, is simply as excited to share the display screen along with his longtime pal.
“Working with Lacey on Get together of 5 was one in every of my favourite experiences ever,” the Nancy Drew actor gushed on Tuesday. “Reuniting in any case of those years to inform such a phenomenal story collectively is a dream that I’m so glad is coming true.”
The movie will observe estranged siblings Lindsay (Chabert) and Brad (Wolf) as they journey to Scotland for Christmas to reunite with their mom, Jo (Fiona Bell). As soon as they’ve arrived, nevertheless, a huge household secret is revealed — and it could simply change every little thing.
“We’re so excited to reunite Lacey and Scott and know our viewers will fall in love with this film,” Lisa Hamilton Daly, Government Vice President, Programming, Hallmark Media, stated on Tuesday. “The nostalgia of seeing Lacey and Scott collectively once more on display screen goes to be a particular vacation deal with for our viewers.”
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Whereas Wolf is comparatively new to the Hallmark household — he starred in 2019’s A Christmas Love Story reverse Kristin Chenoweth — Chabert, for her half, has made her mark in over 25 movies for the community over time.
“These films imply a lot to me. I actually am real after I say that,” Chabert completely advised Us Weekly in October 2021 about making each vacation and year-round Hallmark flicks. “They’re not simply jobs and I really feel a duty to the viewers to make the very best film I can.”
The Imply Women star famous on the time that she’s tried to “increase the bar” on every challenge to maintain followers coming again for extra.
“[When] somebody permits you to into their front room for 2 hours, it’s sort of an honor,” Chabert advised Us. “I wish to go away individuals with a great feeling.”
Wolf, in the meantime, has starred as Carson Drew on The CW’s Nancy Drew since 2019. That very same yr, he received candid with Us about rewatching scenes from his Get together of 5 days — a household drama that was identified for its emotional beats.
“There’s a selected scene the place [my character] Bailey is sort of falling on the sword for the final time for the household and saying he’s not going to go to highschool and keep dwelling so [my sister] Julia (Neve Campbell) can go to highschool and that he’s OK,” Wolf stated. “There was one thing so … I’m emotional proper now speaking about it! In any case that point, they wrote this stunning scene between [brothers] Charlie (Matthew Fox) and Bailey, it so encapsulated who he was all through the course of the whole factor, that it was actually, actually shifting to see as a result of I had forgotten concerning the scene.”
Regardless of not permitting his youngsters to observe the sequence fairly but — Wolf shares sons Jackson, 14, and Miller, 10, in addition to daughter Lucy, 9, with spouse Kelley Limp — he confessed that he’s thought of permitting them to tune in because of how relatable the present continues to be even in the present day.
“I believe they [his children] hear Get together of 5 stated so usually that it looms within the background of our life, to lastly put a face to that factor can be cool,” he advised Us. “I discuss to individuals on a regular basis who’re watching it with their households they usually say that the tales are so human and genuine and timeless. It was a very cool dialog starter for fogeys with their youngsters again then, I believe I might make the most of that too.”
