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Chatting with Ali Skovbye, the Fresh Face of Hallmark Mysteries · Hallmark Mysteries & More

• 0:00
  Eric Rutin: Hello, fellow Sleuthers, you are in for a treat.
• 0:03
  Eric Rutin: Today I am talking with SkovbyeAli Govey, who played Maggie's daughter Abby on arguably the best Hallmark Mystery series ever Gourmet Detective and this Friday she is the protagonist in the new Hallmark Mystery, gilded Newport Mysteries, where she plays Emma in this trip back to 1895, in Hallmark's first ever period mystery.
• 0:37
  Eric Rutin: This is awesome and the next half hour is going to be truly delightful.
• 0:45
  Eric Rutin: I promise you you do not want to miss this on Hallmark Mysteries and more.
• 0:51
  Eric Rutin: This podcast was created by fans or fans, and is not affiliated with or sponsored by Hallmark or the Hallmark Channel.
• 1:02
  Eric Rutin: Okay, so this is a day that I've been waiting for for a very long time.
• 1:09
  Eric Rutin: While we're all excited for Gilded Newport Mysteries, there's another reason why I am so excited to be talking Ali Skovbye .
• 1:18
  Eric Rutin: How are you doing today?
• 1:20
  Ali Skovbye: I am amazing.
• 1:21
  Ali Skovbye: How are you?
• 1:22
  Eric Rutin: Great.
• 1:22
  Eric Rutin: And now here's the reason why we are huge Gourmet Detective fans and you are in Gourmet Detective as Abby the daughter.
• 1:34
  Eric Rutin: Anyone who follows the podcast or our Instagram knows also that Brooke Burns is my Hallmark crush, so she was your mom, so you know Brooke Burns.
• 1:46
  Eric Rutin: It is fantastic.
• 1:47
  Eric Rutin: But then Dylan Neal has also been a guy who's just been fantastic and he talks to me all the time and has given me back insights into what it takes to make movies and all that.
• 1:58
  Eric Rutin: But he also doesn't want to come on the podcast because he's like I don't trust myself to not say things I shouldn't.
• 2:05
  Eric Rutin: So you are first Gourmet Detective alum to be on the podcast, so excited to have you here.
• 2:13
  Ali Skovbye: I am honored, very happy to be here.
• 2:15
  Ali Skovbye: Thanks for liking the movies.
• 2:17
  Eric Rutin: So we are going to start with that.
• 2:18
  Eric Rutin: So what was it like working with the two of them and on that set?
• 2:23
  Ali Skovbye: Oh my gosh, so much fun.
• 2:24
  Ali Skovbye: I mean I feel like I grew up on that set.
• 2:26
  Ali Skovbye: We did four movies and I started when I was like 11 or 12 and then we did the last one.
• 2:34
  Ali Skovbye: I was like 17 and almost an adult, so it's kind of a whirlwind.
• 2:41
  Ali Skovbye: But so much fun.
• 2:42
  Ali Skovbye: I mean both Brooke and Dylan are like two of the loveliest, kindest, most down to earth, amazing people that you'll meet, so really it was just like making movies with people you love.
• 2:53
  Eric Rutin: Like it doesn't get much better.
• 2:55
  Eric Rutin: That is awesome.
• 2:56
  Eric Rutin: That is awesome.
• 2:56
  Eric Rutin: So, like I say, it was great because, like I say, you were in the mystery and we are a mystery podcast and so you got to come back into the mystery world, so it was really really good to have you come full circle there.
• 3:10
  Eric Rutin: So, just one last thing for the gourmet detective Is there any like good behind the scenes type story or something like that that us, as fans, may not know, that you can share with us?
• 3:24
  Ali Skovbye: Oh, let me think.
• 3:26
  Eric Rutin: I know it's going back in time a little bit like pre-COVID and everything like that, which doesn't work.
• 3:31
  Ali Skovbye: I know which is a different life now.
• 3:33
  Ali Skovbye: It feels like man, I mean.
• 3:35
  Ali Skovbye: I feel like there's got to be no-transcript.
• 3:40
  Ali Skovbye: We had so much fun on that movie.
• 3:41
  Ali Skovbye: We I mean there was on the last movies we were really trying to figure out schedules and I was almost not gonna be in the last movie with scheduling, conflicts and working on other things and we were kind of going back and forth and we like had this hilarious day of like I was working on something else in the morning and then I got picked up and I went straight there the next day and I did like a half half day kind of thing and we just had like just the most hilarious, like delusional day.
• 4:11
  Ali Skovbye: It was like towards the end of their shoot and they were exhausted and we had this like really fun, kind of just like one of those scenes where you cannot stop laughing to save your life.
• 4:20
  Ali Skovbye: Like it was just like it was like such an easy scene to do and there was barely anything to do and we like barely get through it without much of your laughing, which is always just a super fun.
• 4:31
  Eric Rutin: Well, it is great to know that two of our Hallmark heroes are good people as well, but pretty much everyone in the Hallmark universe is, so we're talking about why you know and worked with these great Hallmark stars you also, though you're 21, right?
• 4:51
  Ali Skovbye: Yeah.
• 4:51
  Eric Rutin: Yeah, and you worked with some A-Listers.
• 4:53
  Eric Rutin: I mean you got Michelle Pfeiffer, Ashton Kutcher, Catherine Heigl, Tofer Grace.
• 4:57
  Eric Rutin: I mean you've scored pretty good.
• 5:01
  Eric Rutin: So how does like a kid from your front you're from Vancouver, right yeah, Like, how did a kid from Vancouver to score with, like stepping up, like your phone must have the best contact list ever.
• 5:14
  Ali Skovbye: Man, I mean at the start I want to say it was just luck and being a cute kid kind of.
• 5:22
  Ali Skovbye: But yeah, I mean I have an older sister and she's an actor as well and she's super outgoing and bubbly, and she was just at a Vancouver festival with my parents and an agent came up and gave her a card Like super happenstance, super, out of nowhere.
• 5:39
  Ali Skovbye: And then, being the younger sibling, I obviously wanted to do everything my older sister was doing and it kind of went from there like super, yeah, super happenstance.
• 5:50
  Ali Skovbye: I'm very, very lucky and I trained a lot, Like from kind of the moment I started.
• 5:56
  Ali Skovbye: I've always been training and yeah, I don't know, I don't know, but you're not staring in these like little tiny things with whoever.
• 6:06
  Eric Rutin: I mean, you've got some star power there, so that's pretty impressive.
• 6:11
  Eric Rutin: So all right, all right.
• 6:14
  Eric Rutin: So the other thing is I'm just looking at your IMDB is you are a tourist, and I'm not really too into the whole astrology thing, but the one thing I do know is my wife and daughter are both tourists, and the thing I know about you is you're supposed to be very stubborn and very determined, of which both of them do exhibit that trait.
• 6:36
  Eric Rutin: I am a Libra, and so I don't make a decision to save my life and address my wife crazy.
• 6:41
  Eric Rutin: So are you a true tourist?
• 6:43
  Eric Rutin: Are you like, defined by whatever, I don't know what else tourists are known for?
• 6:50
  Ali Skovbye: I think I am.
• 6:50
  Ali Skovbye: I will say I'm super indecisive, like super indecisive, but I am very stubborn, very strong headed.
• 6:59
  Ali Skovbye: I feel like everything I've read about tourists is like they love to sleep and eat and can confirm I do love both of those things very much as well.
• 7:09
  Ali Skovbye: Yeah, I'm not huge into astrology either, but the only things I know about my specific sign and I do think that I do exhibit many of the traits- and everyone in my life is a tourist as well, like my best friends are tourists, my boyfriends are tourists, my sisters are tourists.
• 7:26
  Ali Skovbye: It's just a tourist.
• 7:27
  Ali Skovbye: Tourists is yeah.
• 7:29
  Eric Rutin: I'm there, right there, with you.
• 7:30
  Eric Rutin: I've got a whole slew of them as well, that I know.
• 7:32
  Eric Rutin: So okay, so we're here to talk about the Gilded Newport Mysteries.
• 7:37
  Eric Rutin: One of the things that's really cool about this movie and the casting for you is when Hallmark usually adapts a book and it has the young heroine, they kind of age them up to put in one of the, you know, the more popular Hallmark actors who's been around a little bit.
• 7:53
  Eric Rutin: And this one they held true and they cast you and they went with the Emma in the books is 21,.
• 7:59
  Eric Rutin: You're 21.
• 8:00
  Eric Rutin: So that's pretty darn cool.
• 8:03
  Eric Rutin: Like it's really like trend setting for Hallmark.
• 8:07
  Eric Rutin: I mean whole brand new thing.
• 8:08
  Eric Rutin: How does that feel to like we talked before?
• 8:11
  Eric Rutin: You know you're Abby, the kid in the Gourmetia types, but now you're leading a mystery at a pretty young age and something unprecedented.
• 8:20
  Eric Rutin: How is that?
• 8:22
  Ali Skovbye: Man, it's amazing.
• 8:22
  Ali Skovbye: I mean, like with the Gourmet detectives, I didn't do any of the detective thing or any of that sort, so it was really fun to be able to do that and, do you know, figure out the mystery and solve the mystery and be the detective, and I mean it is.
• 8:40
  Ali Skovbye: Yeah, we really are.
• 8:42
  Ali Skovbye: We're a young cast for Hallmark, for sure, all of us.
• 8:44
  Ali Skovbye: But I think, like you said, I mean the books is 21, we're 21.
• 8:50
  Ali Skovbye: I think I really respect that, that they decided to do the book and do it right and do it as our true ages, and I mean it's so fun, like it's like it's it's a dream.
• 9:03
  Eric Rutin: Yeah, it is awesome.
• 9:03
  Eric Rutin: So I talked to Alyssa Maxwell, who's the author, her her interview will be airing this week as well.
• 9:10
  Eric Rutin: But, um, she, she did say that sometimes homework also does take a lot of liberties from the book and, while there is some, she said that the she was very, very happy with how you portrayed Emma and Just how it did stay true to the the whole nature of the book.
• 9:29
  Eric Rutin: So Now, in fact, I think you may be like the youngest lead in any homework like rom-com and anything like that.
• 9:37
  Eric Rutin: I don't know if they've ever had a 21 year old, that's you're, I don't know.
• 9:40
  Ali Skovbye: Yeah, I don't know if they have either.
• 9:42
  Ali Skovbye: I I haven't.
• 9:43
  Ali Skovbye: I haven't seen anything with with anyone.
• 9:46
  Ali Skovbye: I mean, I'm in all of us, like Danny is 25, like we're all like there.
• 9:53
  Ali Skovbye: You know, we a very young audience for homework, but I also think that that's, that's kind of great and can maybe bring in younger audiences as well for homework.
• 10:03
  Eric Rutin: Well, they, they just had a true justice and that had a fairly young, like late, late 20s, and that one killed.
• 10:12
  Eric Rutin: And I think one of the things that was great about it was this young cast and it just brought such a different chemistry and such a they cool energy that maybe some of the other ones didn't.
• 10:23
  Eric Rutin: So that's what I'm pounding on from you guys.
• 10:25
  Eric Rutin: So the bars, you know the expectations are high for you guys.
• 10:29
  Ali Skovbye: Oh man, I hope.
• 10:30
  Ali Skovbye: I hope we meet your expectations.
• 10:33
  Eric Rutin: All right, we're gonna deviate me.
• 10:34
  Eric Rutin: I do a little thing in these which is my little rapid round of questions, which there's fun, silly questions, don't have to think, just quick answers and then we go from there and then we'll get back into a couple talking about some mystery talk.
• 10:48
  Eric Rutin: All right, my main question is what do you think of pineapple on pizza?
• 10:54
  Ali Skovbye: Not okay, but hot, a hot take.
• 10:56
  Ali Skovbye: In general, I don't like pizza.
• 11:00
  Eric Rutin: I know.
• 11:01
  Ali Skovbye: I know I'm really I'm one of those weirdos.
• 11:02
  Ali Skovbye: It's not that I hate it and I won't eat it.
• 11:06
  Ali Skovbye: I will eat it if you know you're in a group and we order it, but I never crave pizza.
• 11:10
  Ali Skovbye: It's I never.
• 11:11
  Ali Skovbye: I'll never order it myself.
• 11:12
  Ali Skovbye: I never ate it.
• 11:15
  Ali Skovbye: Growing up, at birthday parties, I always went hungry yeah, not a pizza fan in in.
• 11:21
  Ali Skovbye: So no to pineapple on pizza.
• 11:23
  Eric Rutin: Well, that's good, that's my, that's my barometer of your psychotic or not.
• 11:27
  Eric Rutin: So yeah, you definitely.
• 11:30
  Eric Rutin: Well, I don't know Kerbal in there, but yeah you don't like pineapple and pizza, so you pass.
• 11:36
  Eric Rutin: All right, okay, what's the most embarrassing song on your Spotify playlist?
• 11:41
  Ali Skovbye: Oh, my goodness, probably anything Like.
• 11:46
  Ali Skovbye: I've got a few Hannah Montana, hannah songs on there, nice from the good old days, about some really old JB like Really old Justin Bieber, um, yeah all right, that definitely Hannah Montana definitely qualifies.
• 12:02
  Ali Skovbye: Hannah Montana is yeah, yeah.
• 12:05
  Eric Rutin: All right.
• 12:05
  Eric Rutin: So if you're being cast as a famous person throughout history, who would you want to?
• 12:10
  Eric Rutin: Who would you want to play?
• 12:13
  Ali Skovbye: I mean this is deviating a little bit from the question, but I feel like my dream kind of role has always been like a Disney princess, which I know is not historically an actual person, but some people think it is.
• 12:26
  Ali Skovbye: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 12:28
  Ali Skovbye: So I yeah, a Disney princess would be a dream.
• 12:33
  Eric Rutin: You're in charge here, so you can deviate as much as you want, all right, all right.
• 12:37
  Eric Rutin: What's the coolest thing you've ever quote unquote kept from a set from a movie or a series you're on.
• 12:47
  Ali Skovbye: I mean on Firefly Lane I kept some incredible vintage, actual antique jackets that are like legit and very beautiful and very old and actually from the 70s, and some jeans as well that were vintage and thrifted.
• 13:09
  Ali Skovbye: So I would say for me that's the coolest, because I love clothes.
• 13:14
  Eric Rutin: So, since you've fasted up, are you going to be getting a call now from like Netflix saying, hey, we've been looking for those.
• 13:19
  Ali Skovbye: Yeah, no, they let me take them, they let me take them.
• 13:23
  Eric Rutin: All right, all right.
• 13:25
  Eric Rutin: Now we're getting really tough.
• 13:26
  Eric Rutin: If you were a serial, what serial would you be?
• 13:29
  Ali Skovbye: My favorite serial in the States because I'm from Canada and I can't get it here is Fruity Pebbles All right, so I'm going to get Fruity.
• 13:35
  Eric Rutin: Pebbles.
• 13:36
  Eric Rutin: Wait, they don't have Fruity Pebbles in Canada.
• 13:38
  Ali Skovbye: No, or we did.
• 13:40
  Ali Skovbye: I think actually maybe we do now, but we didn't for like up until like a year ago.
• 13:44
  Ali Skovbye: Yeah, Interesting.
• 13:45
  Ali Skovbye: So in America, it's like my first stop when I'm in LA it's Fruity Pebbles.
• 13:49
  Eric Rutin: All right.
• 13:49
  Eric Rutin: So I grew up in Windsor, right across the border of Ontario, there, and I think we had like everything, maybe because it's like, well, vancouver is right there.
• 14:00
  Eric Rutin: So, yeah, you should have Fruity Pebbles.
• 14:02
  Eric Rutin: But now hopefully you do All right.
• 14:04
  Eric Rutin: Last question Are you a dog or cat person?
• 14:07
  Ali Skovbye: Or a dog person.
• 14:08
  Eric Rutin: All right, good for you.
• 14:09
  Eric Rutin: You started well, you finished well, awesome, all right.
• 14:12
  Eric Rutin: So you mentioned a little earlier.
• 14:14
  Eric Rutin: Let's talk Danny Griffin.
• 14:15
  Eric Rutin: I did a post.
• 14:18
  Eric Rutin: Then they first released the pictures from the movie of all you guys and we usually get, you know, a couple thousand, you know reach and stuff like that 120 likes.
• 14:33
  Eric Rutin: The pictures are released of you guys.
• 14:35
  Eric Rutin: We had over 40,000 and more shares than I ever had liked.
• 14:42
  Eric Rutin: Like it was absolutely crazy.
• 14:44
  Eric Rutin: So I'm thinking it's kind of obvious why Danny Griffin's a little popular there.
• 14:50
  Eric Rutin: I showed my wife who was in it.
• 14:51
  Eric Rutin: She's like yeah, that's a handsome kid there, so how hard was it having him be a cast as your love interest there?
• 14:58
  Ali Skovbye: Oh brutal.
• 14:59
  Ali Skovbye: I mean they really made it very, very difficult for me.
• 15:03
  Ali Skovbye: No, I mean Danny's the best.
• 15:06
  Ali Skovbye: He's I said it on another podcast he's one of my favorite people and he's incredibly talented and I mean I couldn't imagine anyone else as our Jesse.
• 15:18
  Eric Rutin: Did he bust out that Cornwall accent on you at all, or is he like?
• 15:22
  Ali Skovbye: Oh my God.
• 15:22
  Ali Skovbye: Well, he kept his accent.
• 15:24
  Ali Skovbye: He kept his British accent, which originally was kind of a discussion of because we're meant to have grown up together whether he should keep it or lose it.
• 15:32
  Ali Skovbye: But I mean, that era is so true to that accent, and also, who doesn't love a British accent, Right, right.
• 15:37
  Ali Skovbye: So we ended up keeping it and I think it works and that's just even another layer to the movie and makes it more special.
• 15:44
  Eric Rutin: Awesome Now.
• 15:45
  Eric Rutin: Did you know him beforehand.
• 15:46
  Ali Skovbye: He didn't.
• 15:47
  Eric Rutin: no, Okay, so he's got awesome so yeah, so in the book he's not a love interest, at least in the first book, like that and so Hallmark did a little tweaking around to make this love triangle.
• 16:00
  Eric Rutin: So typically in the mysteries we don't really get too much romance going until later on.
• 16:06
  Eric Rutin: Like I say, you're Gourmet Attack to be.
• 16:08
  Eric Rutin: It took three episodes for Maggie and Henry to kiss there and stuff so does, and you don't have to get it let out too much.
• 16:16
  Eric Rutin: But does this one get into the romance a little quicker than a typical mystery?
• 16:22
  Ali Skovbye: Yeah, I think so.
• 16:22
  Ali Skovbye: I mean with us being a younger cast as well, I think, younger people in general, it's less of.
• 16:31
  Ali Skovbye: I mean there's definitely tension.
• 16:33
  Ali Skovbye: I will say nothing.
• 16:35
  Ali Skovbye: Nothing happens.
• 16:36
  Ali Skovbye: It's not.
• 16:36
  Ali Skovbye: Nothing happens right away.
• 16:38
  Ali Skovbye: There is still a lot of buildup and still a lot that needs to be explored and doesn't happen in the first movie, but I think we have.
• 16:46
  Ali Skovbye: Yeah, I think we've got a little bit of romance in there.
• 16:48
  Eric Rutin: Who doesn't?
• 16:48
  Ali Skovbye: love the little angel Love triangle in the first movie.
• 16:51
  Ali Skovbye: So we've got romance for sure.
• 16:54
  Eric Rutin: All right, that's I mean.
• 16:55
  Eric Rutin: It's Hallmark, that's what you know half the people want to see.
• 16:57
  Ali Skovbye: So Little mystery, little romance.
• 16:59
  Ali Skovbye: What more could you want?
• 17:01
  Eric Rutin: Exactly, all right.
• 17:02
  Eric Rutin: So, in addition to being this younger cast, it's also a period piece which Hallmark's never see.
• 17:10
  Eric Rutin: You're just like literally breaking barriers all over the place here, right?
• 17:14
  Eric Rutin: So you're gonna.
• 17:15
  Eric Rutin: When they do the little like monument of Hallmark legends, you're gonna be on there.
• 17:20
  Eric Rutin: But it's also, like I said, the first period piece.
• 17:23
  Eric Rutin: So what was it like going back in time to?
• 17:25
  Eric Rutin: You know the late 1890s and you know the wardrobe, just the set and everything else like that, yeah, amazing.
• 17:33
  Ali Skovbye: I mean it is like the ultimate dress up, like it's a full costume.
• 17:38
  Ali Skovbye: I had somebody fully dress me head to toe, took like 20 minutes in the morning, like you really get the full authentic experience.
• 17:47
  Ali Skovbye: I had a corset, you know the whole bit, so you went full okay.
• 17:52
  Ali Skovbye: Full thing.
• 17:52
  Ali Skovbye: The corset was not mandatory, but I myself have pretty bad posture and I knew that I needed.
• 17:59
  Ali Skovbye: You know, stand straight and stand proper and the minute you put a corset on, you immediately feel like you're in that time zone.
• 18:05
  Ali Skovbye: But also you, just you stand taller, you, you know it's a nice reminder.
• 18:11
  Ali Skovbye: But yeah, we did the whole nine and we filmed the Victoria, which has some incredibly historical landscapes and buildings and architecture, which really helped as well.
• 18:23
  Ali Skovbye: And you know we filmed in the X-Men castle.
• 18:28
  Ali Skovbye: So we had you know we did the whole.
• 18:30
  Ali Skovbye: I mean it was amazing, like it really is.
• 18:32
  Ali Skovbye: You're completely transported.
• 18:34
  Eric Rutin: Have you ever been to Newport?
• 18:37
  Ali Skovbye: No, I haven't myself, but I really want to go now.
• 18:40
  Ali Skovbye: Now, I'm very interested.
• 18:41
  Eric Rutin: It's absolutely fantastic.
• 18:43
  Eric Rutin: And the mansion's there Just think that they're just the little summer homes.
• 18:49
  Eric Rutin: It's a whole different world.
• 18:51
  Eric Rutin: Like yeah, you had to go to a castle right, Whereas these other people's like this extra home, and I read that.
• 18:57
  Eric Rutin: So OK, so you went back in time in this movie, but if you now just got the superpower where you could go forward or backward in time, would you go backwards or would you go forward Like you as a person, not as a role, just you.
• 19:13
  Ali Skovbye: Me.
• 19:13
  Ali Skovbye: I would go backwards, partly because I would go backwards till like the 70s and 80s.
• 19:22
  Ali Skovbye: I would love to be alive and live in the 70s and the 80s.
• 19:26
  Ali Skovbye: I feel like the future is too scary.
• 19:31
  Eric Rutin: Yeah, I hear you there.
• 19:31
  Eric Rutin: Well, I lived through this.
• 19:33
  Eric Rutin: Well, I was a little kid in the 70s, but 80s were my time and I'll tell you it was a good, fun time and partial in the music Greatest music.
• 19:43
  Ali Skovbye: That's what it was going to be?
• 19:45
  Eric Rutin: No, Hannah Montana but.
• 19:47
  Ali Skovbye: You know, but, I mean I'll take 80s music over Hannah Montana.
• 19:50
  Ali Skovbye: I will.
• 19:51
  Ali Skovbye: Yeah, I mean the hair and the outfits, like all of it just seemed so fun.
• 19:57
  Eric Rutin: I don't know.
• 19:58
  Eric Rutin: My wife seen me with my mullet and she won't let me grow it back.
• 20:02
  Eric Rutin: Then the Harris, but you need love.
• 20:05
  Ali Skovbye: Mullets are totally making a comeback.
• 20:07
  Eric Rutin: Yeah.
• 20:08
  Ali Skovbye: Mullets are like they're in right now.
• 20:11
  Eric Rutin: All right, I'll have to get going, I'll have to get going.
• 20:13
  Eric Rutin: But you also need your aquanet too.
• 20:15
  Eric Rutin: Your thing of aquanet was required.
• 20:18
  Eric Rutin: So all right.
• 20:19
  Eric Rutin: So back to Emma and Gilded Mystery here.
• 20:22
  Eric Rutin: Not any important.
• 20:23
  Eric Rutin: So what do you bring to this role?
• 20:27
  Eric Rutin: Like when you saw it, you got your script.
• 20:29
  Eric Rutin: There's what Emma is on paper, there's what Emma is in the book, but what did Allie bring to make Emma in the movie?
• 20:38
  Ali Skovbye: I mean, I think Emma is just such a force and she.
• 20:44
  Ali Skovbye: I really wanted to make sure that she was strong and determined, but not so much so that you don't see how vulnerable she is.
• 20:57
  Ali Skovbye: Sometimes it's hard when someone is so determined and so ambitious in doing the thing and writing and doing all the things that a lot of women aren't doing at the time.
• 21:07
  Ali Skovbye: It's easy to lose the vulnerability and the heart when you're playing a part like that.
• 21:16
  Ali Skovbye: So I think I really just tried to make her truthful and grounded and honest and vulnerable and having all of those layers underneath the ambition and drive to build, kind of a full fleshed out character.
• 21:31
  Eric Rutin: She is a really interesting character because she's kind of part of that new port rich, fluent people.
• 21:38
  Eric Rutin: She's got that old money thing to the Vanderbilt name to her, but then she's also not, and so she rides I don't know if it's in the book, but she rides her own buggy, she insists on having her own job and everything like that.
• 21:52
  Eric Rutin: So she is a pretty progressive 1890s woman there.
• 21:57
  Eric Rutin: So that's pretty cool, especially in this world of I'll go off script here for a second but the whole thing of the whole Barbie snubbed there too.
• 22:05
  Eric Rutin: So, like good poverty, you're getting to play a good strong woman there.
• 22:10
  Ali Skovbye: Yeah, I mean love.
• 22:12
  Ali Skovbye: A strong female lead.
• 22:14
  Eric Rutin: Just now we have.
• 22:16
  Eric Rutin: One of the things with mysteries and you were part of one again is people are really loyal to their mysteries.
• 22:22
  Eric Rutin: We get all the time people who are still completely upset that Mystery 101's canceled and not coming back and I'm never watching another mystery.
• 22:30
  Eric Rutin: Gourmet Detective has a very loyal fan base as well and upset that there appears to be another one coming, though I saw it's not officially canceled.
• 22:43
  Eric Rutin: Maybe it's true, maybe not, but so I don't know.
• 22:48
  Eric Rutin: What can you tell listeners that are gonna make them wanna tune in Friday?
• 22:55
  Eric Rutin: There's the obvious period piece and whatever.
• 22:58
  Eric Rutin: What about this mystery is gonna be unique?
• 23:02
  Eric Rutin: That's gonna convert all these people to say, nope, I'm on board.
• 23:05
  Eric Rutin: We need 10 episodes of this one.
• 23:08
  Ali Skovbye: Oh, I mean, I think, partly because it is based on a book, so there is kind of a built in fan base and a built in storyline and characters that are already beloved and following that and having like, if anyone's a fan of the books, obviously there are things that are different when you do an adaptation, but following that kind of journey that they go on in the books, which is always really fun and adds a layer and you can read the book before you watch the movie, it's like we got a double, double entertainment happening.
• 23:43
  Ali Skovbye: But I mean, honestly, obviously I'm biased, but I think the movie's got a little bit of everything.
• 23:49
  Ali Skovbye: I think it's exciting, I think it keeps you on your toes, I think the romance is as a layer of fun and intrigue and, yeah, I mean, I think it's a really fun time.
• 24:04
  Ali Skovbye: It's an hour out of your night that will really transport you into a different world and help you not think about maybe the bad day you had at work that day.
• 24:15
  Eric Rutin: Awesome.
• 24:15
  Eric Rutin: All right, so we're wrapping up now.
• 24:18
  Eric Rutin: Do you have anything else going on?
• 24:21
  Eric Rutin: After this airs?
• 24:21
  Eric Rutin: You, like I said, you're this A-lester who starts with all the biggest of the big, so what else do you have going on?
• 24:30
  Ali Skovbye: No well, I just wrapped in a horror movie who.
• 24:33
  Ali Skovbye: It's called, which is incredibly cool and I'm really excited that's to come out next year.
• 24:40
  Ali Skovbye: Got another movie called Chris the Knight.
• 24:44
  Ali Skovbye: Yeah, I've got a few things in the works, but everything is later this year or next year.
• 24:51
  Eric Rutin: Okay, well, very good, it was so exciting talking to you Like.
• 24:56
  Eric Rutin: I said thank you for indulging my little gourmet detective start at the beginning.
• 25:02
  Eric Rutin: And it would be awesome because you'd be off like in college.
• 25:06
  Eric Rutin: Well, I think you're in college in the last episode actually, but maybe you'd already be graduating.
• 25:10
  Eric Rutin: You could get into the sleuthing this time as well.
• 25:14
  Ali Skovbye: If you could get another one.
• 25:15
  Ali Skovbye: Yeah, yeah.
• 25:18
  Eric Rutin: But okay, well, thank you very much.
• 25:20
  Eric Rutin: It was great talking to you and I'm confident this movie is going to just absolutely slay like the last one did.
• 25:28
  Eric Rutin: So it's a good start to 2024 for a Hallmark Mysteries.
• 25:33
  Ali Skovbye: Yeah, yeah, I think so.
• 25:35
  Eric Rutin: All right, thanks, ellie, have a good day.
• 25:37
  Ali Skovbye: Thank you, you too, bye no-transcript.