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A Suite Holiday Romance · Girls Gone Hallmark | Hallmark Movie Reviews

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  Speaker 1: This is a bramble Jam podcast. Welcome to Girls Gone Hallmark,
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  Speaker 1: a Hallmark review podcast. I'm Megan and I'm a longtime
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  Speaker 1: Hallmark fan. I'm Wendy. I'm a former Hallmark hater. Today
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  Speaker 1: we are discussing a sweet Holiday romance which originally aired
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  Speaker 1: on the Hallmark Channel on Saturday, December thirteenth, and is
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  Speaker 1: A synopsis for a sweet holiday romance Sabrina Lands a
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  Speaker 1: dream gig ghostwriting the memoir of a famous art dealer,
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  Speaker 1: complete with a lux stay at the iconic Grand Fairbanks Hotel.
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  Speaker 1: A chance meeting with a charming British visitor named Ian Sparks.
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  Speaker 1: A holiday romance complicated by mistaken assumptions about Wealth's royalty
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  Speaker 1: and who he really is. Jeff Beasley directed a sweet
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  Speaker 1: Holiday romance, marking his forty first directing credit. Earlier this season,
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  Speaker 1: he also helmed The Snow Must Go On and previously
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  Speaker 1: directed Dominic Sherwood in twenty twenty four's Haunted Wedding. Andrea
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  Speaker 1: Canning wrote the teleplay. Andrea has twenty eight writing credits
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  Speaker 1: and previously pinned Catch of the Day earlier this year,
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  Speaker 1: also Two of the Love on the Danube Movies and
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  Speaker 1: A Merry Scottish Christmas. This movie was based on the
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  Speaker 1: book A Magical New York Christmas by Anita Hughes. Jesse
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  Speaker 1: Shram stars as Sabrina. Jesse has sixty seven acting credits
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  Speaker 1: and is currently co starring in the series Cogo Med.
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  Speaker 1: She was last on Hallmark in Mystic Christmas from twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty three. Dominic Sherwood co stars as Ian with seventeen
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  Speaker 1: acting credits. Dominic is probably best known for his role
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  Speaker 1: as Jace on the series Shadow Hunters. This marks his
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  Speaker 1: second Hallmark project, previously starring in Haunted Wedding. Al Sapienza
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  Speaker 1: plays Grayson Westcott. Al has an impressive three hundred acting
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  Speaker 1: credits and is probably best known for his roles on
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  Speaker 1: The Sopranos, House of Cards and Suits. Adam Hurtig plays Spencer.
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  Speaker 1: Adam has appeared in a toen of Hallmark movies, including
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  Speaker 1: the Santa Summit, automat Apple Hill and following Yonder Star
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  Speaker 1: Gino Anania appears as Young Grayson, and Hallmark fans may
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  Speaker 1: recognize him as Brad from last year's A Carol for Two.
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  Speaker 1: With twenty six acting credits, his Hallmark resume also includes
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  Speaker 1: Made for each Other and an episode of The Spencer Sisters,
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  Speaker 1: now streaming on Hallmark Plus that sounds like a sponsored ad,
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  Speaker 1: It's not well, We'll take it call Us. Lauren Cochran
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  Speaker 1: plays Hazel. Lauren has to acting credits, with standout roles
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  Speaker 1: in Hanakah on the Rocks, Christmas On Call, Hunted Wedding,
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  Speaker 1: and Miracle in Bethlehem. Pa Bailey Chin plays Sabrina's bestie Anna.
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  Speaker 1: While she doesn't yet have an IMDb page, she's a
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  Speaker 1: recent theater major graduate from the University of Manitoba, bringing
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  Speaker 1: a fresh, stage trained energy to the role. Megan best
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  Speaker 1: plays Charlotte. Megan has twenty one acting credits, and this
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  Speaker 1: appears to be her first project for Hallmark. Rena Jolly
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  Speaker 1: plays Tabitha with fourteen acting credits. Rina has previously appeared
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  Speaker 1: on Hallmark in Christmas On Call, Five Gold Rings, and
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  Speaker 1: Made for each Other. Marina Stevenson appears as Lady Broxton.
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  Speaker 1: Previous roles include Hanukah on The Rocks, Hunted Wedding, and
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  Speaker 1: Holiday Hotline. Others include Donna Fletcher as Lady Violet, Lisa
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  Speaker 1: Digiacinto as Emily, Alex poc Golden as Leo, Chase Winnicky
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  Speaker 1: as Barry, and Susan Lowen as Bunny. Let's take a
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  Speaker 1: quick break and we'll come right back with our first
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  Speaker 1: impressions of a sweet holiday romance. Hey, Wendy, what is
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  Speaker 1: your first impression of a sweet holiday romance? I'd like
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  Speaker 1: to formally submit Jesse Shram for immediate induction into our
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  Speaker 1: Lady Gang. Yes, if you're unfamiliar, our Lady Gang includes
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  Speaker 1: Ashley Williams, Lucy Guest, Wilis Peterman, and now Jesse Shram.
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  Speaker 1: That's right. My first impression is if a movie does
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  Speaker 1: justice to Christmas in New York. I'm all in, and
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  Speaker 1: I am all in on a sweet holiday romance. Let
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  Speaker 1: me ask you, yeah, because I know when you tried
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  Speaker 1: to watch this movie, you said you got pulled in
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  Speaker 1: one hundred different ways. You couldn't watch it, you were
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  Speaker 1: watching it in bits and pieces. Did you get to
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  Speaker 1: go back and we did watch the whole thing. I
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  Speaker 1: did good, good because this was one of my favorites
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  Speaker 1: of the year. Same and I'm ready to fight anybody
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  Speaker 1: because I have seen on Reddit, I have seen some
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  Speaker 1: IMDb reviews and in our Facebook group people who did
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  Speaker 1: not like this movie. Bring it. I'm like, excuse me,
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  Speaker 1: excuse me. Here's what I liked. It was fun and
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  Speaker 1: it was different in a way that worked for me.
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  Speaker 1: I loved the parallel storytelling. It's beautifully done. Oh the
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  Speaker 1: way that they made it look vintage y in the
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  Speaker 1: best way possible without an actual scene transition. They're in
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  Speaker 1: the same room. Yes, I loved it. Grayson's passed unfolding
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  Speaker 1: alongside Sabrina's present day love story with Ian and I'm
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  Speaker 1: quoting love story. I'm going to talk about it. I
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  Speaker 1: didn't think it was super easy to pull off. I
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  Speaker 1: thought that it didn't feel gimmicky. It felt very real.
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  Speaker 1: Those scenes where we've talked forever about show us, don't
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  Speaker 1: tell us, and we see the the scenes from thirty
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  Speaker 1: years ago or whatever it did more than that. How
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  Speaker 1: many years was it the sixties, I don't know. It
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  Speaker 1: was all a long time ago, but we see those
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  Speaker 1: scenes unfold, and then we see Sabrina watching those scenes
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  Speaker 1: like she's learning about it too. But it's it just
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  Speaker 1: was done so well. It was done incredibly well. I
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  Speaker 1: have such a long list of likes about that parallel storyline. Look,
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  Speaker 1: we have Grayson Young Grayson Wescott as a butler to
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  Speaker 1: Hazel Holly, and I loved, first of all, love Lauren
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  Speaker 1: Cochrane playing the role of Hazel. Love her, love her,
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  Speaker 1: I need her in more movies. She slipped into that
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  Speaker 1: role effortlessly. She embodied that character. I agree. The relationship
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  Speaker 1: that Hazel and Grayson have is one of respect and
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  Speaker 1: mutual admiration. I love her asking for his opinion on
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  Speaker 1: her storylines. Like you said, Grayson falling in love with
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  Speaker 1: Charlotte and the fact that he still clearly carries this
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  Speaker 1: love with him in spite of them no longer being
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  Speaker 1: in contact. The hotel, as you said, has a real
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  Speaker 1: timeless quality to it, So panning between the time periods
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  Speaker 1: was done in such a lovely way. Perhaps what I
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  Speaker 1: love the most about this, though, is that Gino and
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  Speaker 1: Nania gets his redemption story. Agree. So you texted me
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  Speaker 1: and you said, do you know who plays the character
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  Speaker 1: of young Greens in Wescott and I did not, and
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  Speaker 1: you told me we were not particularly kind to the
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  Speaker 1: character of Brad in last year's of Carol for two.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't love Brad. I thought he came a little
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  Speaker 1: bit too hard. I was absolutely charmed by him this
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  Speaker 1: time around. Beyond star of this movie. I agree, not
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  Speaker 1: to take away from Jesse's Stram. I really enjoyed Jesse
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  Speaker 1: and Dominic as well. He's fantastic in this role. I agree.
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  Speaker 1: And I feel like we know that Jeff likes to
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  Speaker 1: curate a group. I'm talking about Beasley the director. I
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  Speaker 1: say like, he's our friend, likes to curate a group
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  Speaker 1: of people that he returns to time and time again.
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  Speaker 1: And he clearly saw something in Gino that perhaps we
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  Speaker 1: didn't get to see. And so I hope, I hope
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  Speaker 1: everyone involved feels a little vindicated that the audience got
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  Speaker 1: to see this side of this actor. Yes, because if
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  Speaker 1: you recall, we did an interview with Jeff Beasley last year,
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  Speaker 1: and I remember him specifically talking about this actor Gino.
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  Speaker 1: He's like, Oh, he's great. You guys are gonna love
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  Speaker 1: him as Brad. And then we watched a movie and
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  Speaker 1: I was like I didn't really love Brad like Brad
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  Speaker 1: was abrasive, abrasive, a little annoying. M I loved him
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  Speaker 1: in this role me too, loved, loved so much that
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  Speaker 1: I could have watched a whole movie about these two.
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  Speaker 1: I was gonna say the same thing, either a movie
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  Speaker 1: about young Grayson and Charlotte or Hazel and Yes Young Grayson. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: I was like, where's that movie I want? I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I love this movie, but I wanted that movie too. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: in the present day, I really enjoyed Sabrina and Grayson's relationship.
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  Speaker 1: He treated her as an equal. He was invested in
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  Speaker 1: her life just as much as she was invested in him.
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  Speaker 1: The character of Grayson was incredibly well flashed out. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: the stand in for the Grand Hotel Fair Ranks, which
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  Speaker 1: is obviously supposed to be the Plaza Hotel, is very
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  Speaker 1: well done, including the steps outside. There are several scenes
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  Speaker 1: shot on those steps. The Plaza has those iconic steps,
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  Speaker 1: and when you walk by, there are guards out there
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  Speaker 1: because they don't just let the riff raff into the lobby.
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  Speaker 1: Oh really. Yeah, perhaps during downtimes you can go in,
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  Speaker 1: but there's often a group of people out there trying
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  Speaker 1: to charm their way in, and they may have hours
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  Speaker 1: that they let you in or you have a reservation,
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  Speaker 1: but they don't just let anybody come in and walk
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  Speaker 1: through the lobby. Oh that's interesting. In fact, when we
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  Speaker 1: were there last month, we were walking by and there
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  Speaker 1: was a woman arguing with the guard because her daughter
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  Speaker 1: was turning eighteen, and he was like, you know, if
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  Speaker 1: I let you in, I have to let everybody in.
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  Speaker 1: He's like, there's a whole crowd of people that want
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  Speaker 1: to come in. Anyhow, It's the whole thing. But the
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  Speaker 1: steps it landed for me, as well as some of
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  Speaker 1: the other iconic New York scenes. It feels like Christmas
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  Speaker 1: in New York throughout this movie. Jeff Beasily does New
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  Speaker 1: York so well always always did you love Dominic share? Would?
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  Speaker 1: I loved so? I love that we get his accent
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  Speaker 1: in this movie, right. I found him super charming, easily likable.
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  Speaker 1: I really enjoyed his dynamic with Lord Braxton as his handler,
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  Speaker 1: basically because Lord Braxton is off the rails, he's like
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  Speaker 1: mister Jiggielow. I don't know, I mean, that's kind of
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  Speaker 1: a random old timey word, but you know, he's kind
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  Speaker 1: of what's the what is it the word I'm looking for?
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  Speaker 1: Like you a wild card? Like you said? Yeah, it
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  Speaker 1: was fun to watch that. Hm. It didn't get too
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  Speaker 1: hygien cy for me at all. I thought it was.
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  Speaker 1: There was a lot of humor, and I enjoyed watching it.
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  Speaker 1: I also really enjoyed Jesse and Dominic together as a pair.
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  Speaker 1: I thought there they had a really great, playful, natural chemistry.
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  Speaker 1: They had great dialogue that had this quippy rhythm which
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  Speaker 1: speaks to my right. I loved it. I love their
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  Speaker 1: meet you in the hotel bar. Oh, that exact wording
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  Speaker 1: is in my notes. I just thought it was so good.
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  Speaker 1: I thought they were great together. I really enjoyed their
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  Speaker 1: chemistry as well. To build on what you said, when
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  Speaker 1: they have that dance and they almost kiss, and then
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  Speaker 1: she comes back and they do kiss, it was great.
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  Speaker 1: I also loved when they're going on a date and
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  Speaker 1: Sabrina comes out slightly overdressed and she says, I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: go change and he says, don't you dare, And there's
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  Speaker 1: a callback to that don't you dare later in the movie.
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  Speaker 1: They had really nice chemistry. As much as their relationship
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  Speaker 1: wasn't necessarily the one I was rooting for the most
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  Speaker 1: and we'll talk about it. But they were really nice together.
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  Speaker 1: And this movie is a little bit about the mistaken
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  Speaker 1: identity of a royal. I like how we flip that
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  Speaker 1: trope on its head a little bit, because typically we
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  Speaker 1: have the royal pretending to be your average Joe, right,
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  Speaker 1: and in this case, nobody was pretending. It was mistaken identity.
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  Speaker 1: But I like that we flip it the other way.
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  Speaker 1: Often those royal storylines don't land for me because they're
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  Speaker 1: trying to paint this fish out of water. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know how to function in a world that is not royal.
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  Speaker 1: And because we weren't trying to do any of that,
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  Speaker 1: this worked. I agree. I just have one more like
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  Speaker 1: I loved Sabrina's world. She's a working writer. Basically she's
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  Speaker 1: working in this coffee shop, but she's also a writer.
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  Speaker 1: I loved her friends when they go to that party
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  Speaker 1: and there's one of her guy friends like, let's take
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  Speaker 1: a selfie. I just all of it, Like it felt
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  Speaker 1: very believable. I just loved it so much. Of these
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  Speaker 1: I would say early thirty year old Yeah in the
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  Speaker 1: city hust Linda Makett. It was just so enjoyable to watch. Now,
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  Speaker 1: I do have some wishes and this is going to
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  Speaker 1: be the biggest one. And I know you're gonna agree,
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  Speaker 1: But Sabrina getting mad at Ian does not work for
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  Speaker 1: me in this movie. He never to her agree. The
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  Speaker 1: conflict is overblown for me. Her reaction does not fit
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  Speaker 1: the scenario here, the turn and leaving and who you're
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  Speaker 1: not him? Like, I feel duped. He never lied to you,
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  Speaker 1: he never said no. Now did he feel embarrassed? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: but not angry. I wrote down in my notes this
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  Speaker 1: fallout could have leaned more into oh, now I feel
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  Speaker 1: awkward or embarrassed for assuming you were this and not that,
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  Speaker 1: versus I feel betrayed. Yeah. I was like screaming from
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  Speaker 1: my couch, like I was like, no, he never said
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  Speaker 1: anything like no. Granted, had he figured it out. He
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  Speaker 1: did figure it out, like he could have let her
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  Speaker 1: in sooner, he could have, and he tried. There were
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  Speaker 1: moments like he did try to tell her and then
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  Speaker 1: they were interrupted. Yeah, it's it's It's very classic Hallmark
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  Speaker 1: in that way. But that was my biggest wish. I
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  Speaker 1: have a couple other little ones. That's my biggest wish
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  Speaker 1: to the only other thing I said was there's a
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  Speaker 1: little bit too much who's on first for me in
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  Speaker 1: terms of the misdirection and the mistaken identity. At some
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  Speaker 1: point it's like who are all of these people? But
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  Speaker 1: it didn't take away from my overall enjoyment of the movie.
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  Speaker 1: There were a lot of subplots. Yeah, they all worked mostly,
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  Speaker 1: but you got like the family Jewels storyline and Ian's
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  Speaker 1: reading foundation project. It was kind of all a lot.
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  Speaker 1: I do think there could have been some trimming, like, Okay, fine,
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  Speaker 1: let us know why you're here, but we don't need
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  Speaker 1: like the whole setup of the Jewelry storyline and Ian's
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  Speaker 1: reading storyline. I mean, I guess it all comes together
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  Speaker 1: in the end, but like, it just felt like too much.
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  Speaker 1: When I wanted more of the Cordelia storyline, I wanted
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  Speaker 1: more from Hazel and young Grayson, and I thought that's
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  Speaker 1: what we were getting because when you read the synopsis
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  Speaker 1: of this, obviously it's based on a book, and the
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  Speaker 1: book references Eloise and that childhood storyline. Right, they couldn't
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  Speaker 1: do that here, but it seems like a very big
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  Speaker 1: part of the movie that doesn't they could have done
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  Speaker 1: more with I thought, so, Yeah, we're telling a lot
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  Speaker 1: of stories in eighty minutes. Yeah, yeah, exactly. I had
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  Speaker 1: a hard time understanding the significance of Grayson's memoir, like
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  Speaker 1: why is he getting a memoir? Like why is he
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  Speaker 1: a big deal? She says something to him in the beginning,
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  Speaker 1: like you're one of the most pre eminent something something
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  Speaker 1: something's that sets it up. But other than that, it's
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  Speaker 1: just a way to bring them all together in the
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  Speaker 1: same place. I get that, but I was like, maybe
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  Speaker 1: make it. I don't know, because we don't talk a
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  Speaker 1: lot about his present day. It's all past exactly exactly.
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  Speaker 1: And my other wish that goes for that for Sabrina,
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  Speaker 1: who is under this massive NDA, she's sure spending a
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  Speaker 1: lot of time in public with the guy that she
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  Speaker 1: is ghostwriting a memoir for. When Ian knows that she
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  Speaker 1: is ghostwriting for somebody significant, Ian never goes, who's that
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  Speaker 1: dude you're hanging out with so much at this hotel, Like,
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  Speaker 1: who's that guy?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: Kind of like talking to ghosts and people know. Nobody
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  Speaker 1: ever says, who are you talking to me? Exactly? Yeah, exactly,
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  Speaker 1: that's it for me. Well I only have one did
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  Speaker 1: you see that? And I got a couple bite of watching.
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  Speaker 1: So for me, there's a scene where they're on the
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  Speaker 1: street and Ian and Sabrina are almost run down by
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  Speaker 1: a petticab. The petticab is driven by a man in
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  Speaker 1: a reindeer suit, which is absolutely a callback to the
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  Speaker 1: Santa Summit, which was of course directed by Jeff Beasley.
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  Speaker 1: That role was played by Eric Tubley. I did DM
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  Speaker 1: Eric to ask if he stopped by, because this was
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  Speaker 1: filmed in Winnipeg, which is where Eric lives. Eric has
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  Speaker 1: on got back to it. He didn't respond. That would
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  Speaker 1: have been great. Actually, wouldn't that be great? Just something
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  Speaker 1: that and if you know, you know, and it's I mean,
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  Speaker 1: it's blink and you'll miss it. If you're not looking
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  Speaker 1: for it, you will not see it. I actually rewound
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  Speaker 1: it to see if it was a the person was
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  Speaker 1: in a reindeer suit on the petticap because could you
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  Speaker 1: tell what wassen? Yeah, he's in a reindeer suit. So funny. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: love it. My digit se that are. There is a
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: scene where they showed the New York City skyline and
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: you can see the Empire State Building and the lights
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  Speaker 1: on the building are red, white and blue, and then
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: we cut to Sabrina explaining to Ian that they change
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: the lights out on the building, and then they show
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: the building again and the lights are pink and green.
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: Oh so it's just like b Roll on top of
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: b Roll. Yeah. When they go to the library and
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: the kids are decorating gingerbread houses, you see these kids
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: working on these houses and the icing is so professionally
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: done on these gingerbreads. And then they show Sabrina and
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: Dominic's house that they're working on and it looks like
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: a child has made it. It's terrible, terrible. There was
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: a great line that Sabrina said that I just love
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: so much. She says, I'm too square to be in
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: any circles and I feel this deeply. I loved it.
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: And my last did you see that is on IMDb
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: if you go to Jeff's account, it shows an upcoming work,
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: a Magical New York Christmas, which is this movie. It
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: says it's in pre production. Now like obviously, you know,
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: somebody put this in on IMDb. Originally that's what it was.
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: But if you look at it and you look at
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: the cast, it has a lot of the same players
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: who are in this movie. But then it has a
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: whole bunch of other people, including Kristin Booth, but it
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: doesn't have a character name, and I was like, interesting,
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: what's the story? But it still shows Jesse Dominic. No, well,
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: is it possible that that's not the same movie. It's
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: the same movie because it has al who plays Grayson Westcott.
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: Oh oh, and that's the name of the book, of course, yes,
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: And it has Susan Lowen who plays Bunny, and then
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: it has all these other characters, all these other actors
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: in it, tons, tons, And I'm like, what is the
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: story here? I did read on Reddit somebody had reported
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: I don't know if this is factual or not, but
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: Jesse was hired like days before the production started. Oh
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: so was Kristen swapped out? I can't imagine they're playing
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: the same character. I would think Kristin might have been
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: Lady Braxton. Perhaps I don't I don't know. Sin's not
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: old enough to play the Lady Braxton rule. So when
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: you look at the stars at the top, it says
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: Al Sapienza, Kristin Booth, and Sean Patrick Folster, and so
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: he I assume was hired to play the love interest.
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: And I think we might have been telling a slightly
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: different story here. Yeah, when did it change? Jeff? If
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: you're listening, please message us and give me some details.
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: No writer attached, so who knows if the screenplay had
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: been adapted yet at this point. Yeah? Very interesting. I
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: do believe Jeff does occasionally listen to this podcast, so
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: drop in with your thoughts. Draft Well, let's rate a
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: sweet holiday romance. I gave it four point seven five stars.
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: I gave it four point five stars. Thank you for
• 21:29
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  Speaker 1: say goodbye, Wendy.
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