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Interview with Sarah Drew and Peter Mooney - Sneak Peek · Girls Gone Hallmark | Hallmark Movie Reviews

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  Speaker 1: This is a bramble jam podcast.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome to Girls Gone Hallmark, a homework review podcast. I'm
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  Speaker 2: Megan and I'm a longtime Hallmark fan. Here to tell
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  Speaker 2: you a little bit about what you're going to get
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  Speaker 2: into day's episode. This is a mini episode. We recently
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  Speaker 2: participated in a press junket with several other Hallmark podcasters
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  Speaker 2: speaking to Sarah Drew and Peter Mooney of Mistletoe Murders.
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  Speaker 2: We had the chance to ask them several questions, and
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  Speaker 2: this mini episode is just the audio of the questions
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  Speaker 2: that we hear at Girls Gone Hallmark asked. We are
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  Speaker 2: going to leave a link in the show notes to
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  Speaker 2: the full interview. It was an incredible discs session. Sarah
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  Speaker 2: and Peter were so warm and lovely and shared so
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  Speaker 2: much about the show, So I encourage you to give
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  Speaker 2: the entire interview a listen. But here's a sneak peek.
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  Speaker 3: Hi.
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  Speaker 2: I'm Megan from Girls Gone Hallmark and like everybody here,
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  Speaker 2: we are huge fans of this show and the two
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  Speaker 2: of you together are pure magic. I have to wonder
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  Speaker 2: Mistletoe Murders the series is based on an established podcast series,
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  Speaker 2: So you guys came in and there is some overlap
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  Speaker 2: between some of the voice actors in the podcast series
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  Speaker 2: and people who appear on the show, But obviously the
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  Speaker 2: two of you created your own versions of these characters.
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  Speaker 2: Was there any part of you that felt influenced by
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  Speaker 2: those other portrayals or pressure to honor those portrayals, or
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  Speaker 2: were you really just trying to forge your own path.
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  Speaker 3: I can speak for myself. I really just wanted to
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  Speaker 3: forge my own path. You know. Kobe Smolders does such
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  Speaker 3: an incredible job, but she's also a very different actor
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  Speaker 3: than I am. Like, we have very very different energies.
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  Speaker 3: And so I listened to the first two episodes and
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  Speaker 3: I was like, she's so great, She's so brilliant, But
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  Speaker 3: I also want to do my own thing. I want
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  Speaker 3: to carve my own path. And the truth is Ken
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  Speaker 3: has created all different mysteries for our TV series, and
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  Speaker 3: just being in the medium of getting to engage with
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  Speaker 3: the visual of it all, we really are our own thing, right,
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  Speaker 3: So we're just sort of embracing our unique piece of
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  Speaker 3: this storytelling. And also I think he not only are
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  Speaker 3: the mysteries different, but even some of our backstories, the
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  Speaker 3: way that Emily and Sam kind of come into the
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  Speaker 3: picture is different. They know each other for a long
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  Speaker 3: time before you meet them for the first time on
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  Speaker 3: the Audible podcast, and here we get the meat cute
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  Speaker 3: in the coffee shop.
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  Speaker 4: You know, there's there's a lot.
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  Speaker 3: That I think some of my backstory is different from
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  Speaker 3: the Audible series, so it really is its own thing.
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  Speaker 1: Same't I didn't want to get confused, and which happens
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  Speaker 1: pretty easily. But I do love that they're both out
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  Speaker 1: there like that. It's it's this I guess you wouldn't
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  Speaker 1: call it a cinematic universe because one is is audio,
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  Speaker 1: but like that there is this like like Christmas Town
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  Speaker 1: existing in sort of two uh dimensions.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, totally totally.
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  Speaker 3: And then now they have Middle Bridge, which is the
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  Speaker 3: Violet spin off on Audible right now, and it's.
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  Speaker 4: Doing so well. They keep winning, rapping up so many
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  Speaker 4: awards the Audible series. So we're just thrilled for Ken
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  Speaker 4: and Michelle and Headspinner and you know, that whole that
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  Speaker 4: whole community. We love them so much and.
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  Speaker 2: It gives all of us something to do while we're
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  Speaker 2: waiting for season three next year.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you Bok six episodes season.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's my biggest wish about this show. Absolutely, you
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  Speaker 2: kind of touched on this. The tone of the show
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  Speaker 2: walks a line between cozy Christmas y and mysterious and murdery.
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  Speaker 2: I'd love to know what the atmosphere is like on set,
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  Speaker 2: which side of those things you guys are leaning into more.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, the vibe here is very fun and playful,
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  Speaker 2: so does that carry over as well?
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  Speaker 1: Yes, like when it comes to like cozy, it's still
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  Speaker 1: been too hot. It's seat acting. But the murder is
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  Speaker 1: it's very safe. We've had no actual murders, yes, very
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  Speaker 1: few injuries. Actually spoiler again.
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  Speaker 4: Break my hand.
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  Speaker 2: I saw that photo with the cast.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, just yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I know you have a really great joke about my
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  Speaker 3: method being a method actor.
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  Speaker 4: You've done it in a few different interviews.
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  Speaker 1: Would you like to try it out? I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: try out to see if I get laugh this time.
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  Speaker 1: But because she had a cast in season one on
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  Speaker 1: the same hand and then broke her left hand in
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  Speaker 1: season two, I always joke that she's very method, just
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  Speaker 1: with terrible timing.
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  Speaker 2: So having seen the season, I couldn't possibly pick a
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  Speaker 2: favorite scene, but I do have to say that there
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  Speaker 2: is a scene, and it's fine. Pair of episodes well,
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  Speaker 2: that's my question part and it had to be. It's
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  Speaker 2: so well done. But I'm curious, between the two of you,
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  Speaker 2: was there a favorite scene that you loved filming, either
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  Speaker 2: that was the most fun or the hardest, or the
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  Speaker 2: most challenging or the most painful.
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  Speaker 1: I'll give you the most the most challenging because it
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  Speaker 1: relates directly to this. Gosh, we shoot pretty pretty quickly,
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  Speaker 1: like we don't have a lot of time to get
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  Speaker 1: these and Sarah was such a pro, such a trooper.
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  Speaker 1: After she broke her hand, she was just worried about
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  Speaker 1: getting the day and you know, going up to the
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  Speaker 1: hospital being like, I think we can still get the scene.
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  Speaker 1: We have to go to the hospital. But we did
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  Speaker 1: keep filming, so we're like, what can we pull up?
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  Speaker 1: So we pulled up a scene that that follows That
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  Speaker 1: follows the later scene in that episode where Sarah and
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  Speaker 1: are sitting by the fire, but Sarah was at the hospital,
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  Speaker 1: so I shot it with her stunt double who's luckily there.
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  Speaker 4: And where in my in the wig? Not my wig?
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  Speaker 4: I don't wear a wig, but she wears a wig.
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  Speaker 1: He's a wig to match Sarah's hair. Yeah, but because
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  Speaker 1: of union rules and a whole serious, complicated things. She
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  Speaker 1: couldn't say Sarah's line, so a script supervisor was off
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  Speaker 1: camera reading Sarah's lines, and Sara's stunt doubles there looking
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  Speaker 1: like Sarah sitting in the tree going in time that theliance.
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  Speaker 4: He texts.
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  Speaker 3: He texts me this because I'm I'm thinking there's no
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  Speaker 3: way he's not like having to do his coverage and
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  Speaker 3: scenes between us while I'm in the hospital. That can't
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  Speaker 3: possibly happen. He's like, oh, yes, it is happening.
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  Speaker 4: He described that I'm.
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  Speaker 3: In the emergency room like having my you know, fingers,
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  Speaker 3: like this interaction, you know, trying to set it whatever,
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  Speaker 3: and he described as the whole scene and then writes
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  Speaker 3: that's acting baby professionals to the end. Yes, I wouldn't
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  Speaker 3: even right after I broke my hand.
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  Speaker 4: It hurts so much.
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  Speaker 3: But I was like so because I was running an
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  Speaker 3: inn a stunt sequence, so I was like so pumped
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  Speaker 3: full of adrenaline. Then I just kept trying to shake
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  Speaker 3: it off. So I kept like walking from room to
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  Speaker 3: room trying to shake it off, and then the medic
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  Speaker 3: was chasing me. He's like, you have to sit down.
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  Speaker 3: I have lots down and he finally got me to
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  Speaker 3: sit down. I wasn't crying. I was like, can't. I
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  Speaker 3: can't crack because can't wreck my makeup. We don't have
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  Speaker 3: time for me to redo the makeup, so I can't
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  Speaker 3: wreck the makeup. And he like, does this whole you know,
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  Speaker 3: exam on my hand, and then he goes, she's done
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  Speaker 3: for the day, she needs to go to the hospital,
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  Speaker 3: and I said.
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  Speaker 4: We don't have time for this, sin in tears. So
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  Speaker 4: that's how that journey started.
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  Speaker 1: So those, I mean, those were our most eventful scenes.
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  Speaker 1: But I think I think the favorite scene was like
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  Speaker 1: the argument in the parking lot. I loved that, loved
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  Speaker 1: that gazebo scene. I love when we get to spend
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  Speaker 1: time with them because there's so much for them to solve.
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  Speaker 1: In these two episodes, we're moving at a pretty quick
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  Speaker 1: pace through a lot of it. But when that pace
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  Speaker 1: kind of breaks and there's like a personal moment between them,
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  Speaker 1: those are those are pretty wonderful students.
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  Speaker 3: We also, he wasn't in the scene, but there's a
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  Speaker 3: really fun scene in episode five where we kind of
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  Speaker 3: shot it as a winner. We're walking through this restaurant
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  Speaker 3: and there are six or seven characters that come in
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  Speaker 3: and out as I'm being led through and introduced to
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  Speaker 3: this whole new world that we're going to play in
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  Speaker 3: for these two episodes. And we shot it as a
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  Speaker 3: as a as one shot and a lot, and we're
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  Speaker 3: traveling and our camera operators is operating on a steady cam,
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  Speaker 3: and the choreography of everybody kind of moving into their
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  Speaker 3: place at the right moment to say their thing, to
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  Speaker 3: do this stuff, and then the camera it's just a
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  Speaker 3: really fun and intricate choreography to it that always energizes me.
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  Speaker 3: That was actually the first scene we shot after I
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  Speaker 3: broke my hand. That was literally Thursday morning, came back
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  Speaker 3: with the cats. They put a sock on my hand.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that seems very west by the.
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  Speaker 3: Broken hand while doing this winner, which adds to the
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  Speaker 3: challenge of it. But I agree with you those like
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  Speaker 3: those meati relational scenes are the most like fun and satisfying.
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  Speaker 3: But also when you get a challenge like a woner
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  Speaker 3: like that to do, everybody just kind of goes here
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  Speaker 3: we go and we're doing it.
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  Speaker 4: It's like live theater, you know, it's really fun.
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  Speaker 2: So Sam and Emily both carry kind of emotional weight
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  Speaker 2: from their past for very different reasons. In season two,
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  Speaker 2: do you each have a moment that you feel was
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  Speaker 2: a turning point for your characters.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, you're gonna see it.
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  Speaker 3: I will say shooting the flashbacks for Emily in five
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  Speaker 3: and six was a massive Ye. I didn't understand really
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  Speaker 3: who she was until I was in hair, makeup, and wardrobe,
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  Speaker 3: and then it was like it was a new person
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  Speaker 3: with the whole history, unsullied and untouched in some ways
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  Speaker 3: by the things that were to come. And even playing
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  Speaker 3: the scenes with I don't know if I can spoil
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  Speaker 3: that with the other actor in it, like I found myself,
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  Speaker 3: it's a very different relationship Sam and Emily years later,
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  Speaker 3: like so profoundly different. I'm responding differently, uh, interacting differently.
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  Speaker 4: It's not as kind a relationship for sure.
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  Speaker 3: And my character in playing those scenes and then just
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  Speaker 3: being present and responding in the moment, I was realizing, oh.
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  Speaker 4: Sweet girl, like you've been through it. You have been
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  Speaker 4: through it.
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  Speaker 3: I get why she there's still miles to go, but
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  Speaker 3: I get that is sorry. I'm I'm like trying to
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  Speaker 3: not look at my sweatpants. This is the party on
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  Speaker 3: that and giving it all away. It's all a shamp
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  Speaker 3: but yeah, but this, but that is a moment where
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  Speaker 3: I was like, Okay, I get why and where and
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  Speaker 3: how she turned and I'm trying to hide some things
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  Speaker 3: I'm not allowed to say, which is why I'm stumbling
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  Speaker 3: so much.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, you got to meet her too.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, it was, and it's it's the weirdest.
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  Speaker 3: It was the weirdest and wildest thing because I didn't
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  Speaker 3: fully know who she was going to be until we
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  Speaker 3: were on set playing those scenes, and then I was like, oh,
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  Speaker 3: there she is. And even mel our director, was like,
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  Speaker 3: this is so wild because I look very different in
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  Speaker 3: the scenes for one thing, but it's but also her
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  Speaker 3: energy is pretty different, and so she's like, I'm just
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  Speaker 3: so used to watching you as Emily and now I'm
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  Speaker 3: seeing a totally different person as Grace, but she's still you.
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  Speaker 3: And it's like blow, Like my mind is like breaking,
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  Speaker 3: and I'm like, oh, this is this is why, this
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  Speaker 3: is life. This is real. People change, you know, Like
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  Speaker 3: I wouldn't want to play Emily back when she's twenty
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  Speaker 3: five because she's she's great.
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  Speaker 4: She's not Emily, She's different. You know. Anyway, Sorry, I
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  Speaker 4: just went on.
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  Speaker 1: And on it.
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  Speaker 4: I love it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think. I think for me, it was the
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  Speaker 1: second arc in season two where Sam starts to break
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  Speaker 1: the rules a little, because I think for him, he
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  Speaker 1: uses rules to keep himself safe, keep everything structured in ordered,
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  Speaker 1: and then he knows what's what and who's where, and
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  Speaker 1: it makes everything feel predictable and safe. But I think
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  Speaker 1: it's also kind of caused his life to shrink down
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  Speaker 1: and become, you know, pretty myopic. It's just him and
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  Speaker 1: his daughter and his job and that's it, and this
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  Speaker 1: town is small and he can handle that. So when
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  Speaker 1: he starts to break the rules, I think it also
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  Speaker 1: breaks open, like a little insight into like how much
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  Speaker 1: is out there that he's kind of not letting himself see.
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  Speaker 4: I like that. Yeah, yeah, thank you so much.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you for listening to this episode of Girls Gone Hamemark,
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  Speaker 2: a Bramble Jam podcast. As we mentioned, the full episode
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  Speaker 2: of this interview. As we mentioned, the full interview is
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  Speaker 2: available at the link in the show notes of this
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  Speaker 2: podcast on our website at Girls Gonehollmark dot com. We'll
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  Speaker 2: be back next time with more Hallmark reviews.
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  Speaker 5: Goodbye.
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