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Mini Episode: Alvina August and Nathan Witte · Girls Gone Hallmark | Hallmark Movie Reviews

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Girls Gone Hallmark, a Hallmark Review podcast. I'm
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  Speaker 1: Megan and I had the chance to speak to Alvina
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  Speaker 1: August and Nathan Witt about their movie Falling Into Place,
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  Speaker 1: which airs on the Hallmark Channel this Saturday, September 12th.
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  Speaker 1: We hope you enjoy this short chat with them and
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  Speaker 1: tune in to the Hallmark Channel on Saturday, September 12th
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  Speaker 1: for Falling Into Place, part of the Fall Into Love lineup.
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  Speaker 2: Hi, Alvina.
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  Speaker 1: Hi, Nathan. I'm Megan from Girls Gone Hallmark. Thank you
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  Speaker 1: so much for your time. As viewers, we are so
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  Speaker 1: drawn to chemistry between actors on screen. And in this movie,
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  Speaker 1: you have the added challenge of having best friend chemistry
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  Speaker 1: that transitions into a little something more. And I'm so curious,
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  Speaker 1: is there something that you do to cultivate that connection
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  Speaker 1: on set before filming starts, throughout filming, so that that
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  Speaker 1: comes through?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, for me, I just continually to ask my co-star
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  Speaker 3: questions and questions until they're annoyed at me.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And, and, and I, I, when I really love you,
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  Speaker 3: I start to poke fun a little bit. So when
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  Speaker 3: I can, we can poke fun and have a little fun.
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  Speaker 3: I feel like we can build a repertoire.
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  Speaker 1: This movie does hang on a bucket list. And so
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  Speaker 1: I want to talk about two sides of that one.
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  Speaker 1: Is there a life bucket list item that just hangs
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  Speaker 1: in the back of your mind that you're dying to
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  Speaker 1: check off?
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  Speaker 3: For me, I want to go to Japan. I really
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  Speaker 3: want to go to Japan. I want to see the countryside.
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  Speaker 3: I want to see the city. There's something about the
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  Speaker 3: Japanese culture. So that's on one of my ultimate bucket lists.
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  Speaker 3: And to be able to go there in at least
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  Speaker 3: business class, because it's a long flight.
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  Speaker 1: I want to be able to sleep. Yeah, you need
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  Speaker 1: a lie flat. My son is studying in Japan right now,
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  Speaker 1: so he's really living the life that we all wish
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  Speaker 1: we could.
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  Speaker 3: Oh my God, I'm telling you.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, me too. What about you, Alvina?
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  Speaker 2: To see Celine Dion in concert. Maybe, you know, in
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  Speaker 2: Vegas is my ultimate dream.
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  Speaker 1: She just announced a Paris residency for September and October
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  Speaker 1: in France, not Vegas, Paris.
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  Speaker 2: Yes. I was worried that I wouldn't have a chance.
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  Speaker 2: I was worried that she might retire because it's like
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  Speaker 2: one of those things.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 2: I want to see Michael Jackson. That didn't happen. I
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  Speaker 2: really want to see Whitney Houston. That didn't happen. So
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  Speaker 2: I was like, I just have one more chance to
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  Speaker 2: see someone that I admire that I think is phenomenal
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  Speaker 2: and just an amazing performance. So yeah, maybe I'll be
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  Speaker 2: in Paris.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, well, speaking of bucket list items in the movie,
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  Speaker 1: was there one that was the most fun or even
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  Speaker 1: the most challenging, exciting stuck out to you when filming?
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  Speaker 2: The challenging one was a scarecrow. I was just trying
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  Speaker 2: to keep, keep the head.
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  Speaker 1: Like, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And then stuffing it with, Hey, I've never built a scarecrow.
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  Speaker 2: So it was just, it was quite new and interesting.
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  Speaker 2: and making sure to hold it in the right way
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  Speaker 2: and lift it up. So that was the whole thing.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, the fun one was, I think, trying to
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  Speaker 2: give Mr. and Mrs. a smile.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, the donut making was definitely something I really enjoyed,
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  Speaker 3: making donuts and eating the donuts after. And I've never
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  Speaker 3: had apple cider donuts before, so that was the first.
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  Speaker 1: What's not to love? We have a segment on our
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  Speaker 1: podcast that runs on every episode called Did You See That?
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  Speaker 1: where we talk about scenes that viewers may not have
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  Speaker 1: noticed on first watch or scenes that maybe require a
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  Speaker 1: little bit of backstory to fully understand. Can you point
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  Speaker 1: to a scene like that in this movie that you
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  Speaker 1: want viewers to pay close attention to?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, that's a good question.
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  Speaker 4: Maybe I would say the first that comes to mind
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  Speaker 4: is the scene where James cooks for kaya and um
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  Speaker 4: because that's there's a lot of them really connecting um
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  Speaker 4: talking about um the times from when they were younger
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  Speaker 4: to to now and everything that's kind of happened in
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  Speaker 4: between and and it's a there's there's a lot of
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  Speaker 4: subtlety between the two of them where they start to
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  Speaker 4: kind of like pick up that maybe there's something more
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  Speaker 4: in in in this friendship and i.
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  Speaker 3: Think the the the deeper you look within that scene
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  Speaker 3: you can see them kind of struggling with the reality
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  Speaker 3: of the situation and then an idea of the situation.
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  Speaker 1: I love that you said that because my next question
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  Speaker 1: was about, at some point you go from best friends
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  Speaker 1: to more than this. And in my mind, it's that
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  Speaker 1: dinner slash fire pit scene that really solidifies when your
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  Speaker 1: characters realize that it's happening. Was that the moment for
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  Speaker 1: you or was there another moment where you feel like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: this is where things are starting to turn.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that scene was really beautiful. And we're so grateful
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  Speaker 2: that we were able to have quite a bit of
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  Speaker 2: input in how that scene went. It did feel a
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  Speaker 2: little stiff when we were thinking about it. And, you know,
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  Speaker 2: and we wanted it to live in this energy. And
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  Speaker 2: we wanted it to feel like these characters were just
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  Speaker 2: not in their heads so much. So we incorporated the
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  Speaker 2: dance in that scene. decided to come up with. We
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  Speaker 2: were like, oh, let's just incorporate, because a lot of
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  Speaker 2: Black weddings have this specific dance that we do, and
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  Speaker 2: everybody knows it. They all join in. And so we
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  Speaker 2: were like, yeah, let's just do that. So we added
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  Speaker 2: that through the dialogue. And so it kind of worked
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  Speaker 2: out really well. I mean, as actors, I'm always trying
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  Speaker 2: to find, as an actor, I'm always trying to find
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  Speaker 2: moments where I can bring in action and activity. Because
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  Speaker 2: we don't, we're not so sitting and talking. We're not
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  Speaker 2: doing this all the time. It's kind of awkward. So
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  Speaker 2: wherever we could find moments to let the scene move
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  Speaker 2: and breathe and have life and energy, I think we
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  Speaker 2: were so happy that we got to do that in
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  Speaker 2: that dance scene. So yeah, that was really fun. And yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I think that was the moment where we started to
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  Speaker 2: see these characters start to live from their hearts instead
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  Speaker 2: of their heads.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it's clear to hear you talk about that
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  Speaker 1: scene that there's parts of this movie that are very
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  Speaker 1: personal to you. If you were going to sell this
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  Speaker 1: movie to someone without using our typical cozy, heartwarming discussion,
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  Speaker 1: what would you tell people that this movie is truly
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  Speaker 1: about at its heart?
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  Speaker 2: I think this movie is about being courage, being courageous, sorry,
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  Speaker 2: having courage, being honest with the things that you have
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  Speaker 2: and the you know, the things that you don't have
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  Speaker 2: in your life and the places that you thought you
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  Speaker 2: saw yourself going versus where you ended up. And kind
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  Speaker 2: of taking a step back, you know, getting out in nature,
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  Speaker 2: maybe detoxing on the phone, just trying to really figure
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  Speaker 2: out what it is that you want, no matter how
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  Speaker 2: that appears on the outside or how anyone would perceive that.
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  Speaker 2: I think just being really honest with yourself and recognizing that,
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  Speaker 2: you know, there's things that you want and that that
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  Speaker 2: you're willing to be brave enough to give them.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I thank you so much for your time. We
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  Speaker 1: can't wait for everyone to see the movie this weekend.
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  Speaker 1: The fall vibes are vibing in this movie. So we're
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  Speaker 1: so excited for that. All right, friends, before we go,
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  Speaker 2: Bye.