Hallmark Channel Stars Reveal the Sequels They Are Right down to Make

It’s starting to look so much 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 instructed Us that they’re all the way down to work with Walker once more.

“They’re all so great 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 solely instructed Us about 2021’s My Christmas Household Tree at Hallmark Channel’s Countdown to Christmas crimson carpet occasion at Radio Metropolis Music Corridor final month. “I might like to see what they’d 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 wish to do one with them 10 years later — they’ve three youngsters. They’re in that place of their lives the place their youngsters have taken over every little thing, they don’t have anything left to present 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 manner 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 in another way. 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 occasions over time, additionally teaming up for 2017’s The Excellent 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 change into a franchise, DeLoach gave Us a wink.

For now, nonetheless, she’s gearing up for the discharge of The Reward of Peace with Brennan Elliott.

“It’s the most emotional film I’ve ever executed for Hallmark. A love story isn’t the A-story line. It’s a few group of individuals which are in a grief help 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 pal encourages her to go to this grief help 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 can assist 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 probably not figuring out find out how to transfer ahead. I couldn’t discover the enjoyment I couldn’t discover happiness. I simply felt like I used to be form of in quicksand on a regular basis. And this film, enjoying this character, sitting round and simply sharing tales off display screen on display screen, I got here out of this film seeing the sunshine on the finish, discovering the hope, figuring out I’m by no means going to not be in grief, however now I’ve some individuals which are going to assist me carry this factor. And it was very therapeutic.”

Walker, for his half, could 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 pal, being a man that I’ve recognized within the business and needed to work with him for thus 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 appears to be like,” Walker quipped in the course of 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 stress” to make a film for the followers of the trio to take pleasure in. “Genuinely, [we felt] a lot stress to ship — I really feel like we did. I’m simply gonna say it!” the actor and co-writer, declared.

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