Anyone who shipped April Kepner and Matthew Taylor on Grey’s Anatomy can see the identical actors fall in love over again within the Lifetime film Reindeer Games Homecoming. Sarah Drew and Justin Bruening lead the solid of the vacation rom-com, which airs tonight, Saturday, November 12, at 8/7c.
InReindeer Games Homecoming, Drew performs MacKenzie Graves, a biology instructor who finally ends up competing towards Bruening’s Chase Weston, a Hollywood star who occurs to be her high-school crush, in her hometown’s annual Reindeer Games fundraiser. “As the competition heats up, so does the spark between Mac and Chase, and Chase soon finds himself eager to not only win the games, but also win her heart as well,” Lifetime provides in a synopsis.
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Drew, who wrote Reindeer Games Homecoming, didn’t initially suppose to reunite with Breuning onscreen within the yuletide romance. “Actually, I was writing it with some other people in mind after having just worked with a group of people that I wanted to work with again,” she advised People.
“Yeah, basically they all said no,” quipped Bruening.
Drew continued: “I mean, I love working with you, Justin. But you know, also want to work with other people, too. But when his name was brought up, I was like, ‘Oh my gosh, this is so perfect. Yes.’ I just can’t quit you, Justin.”
Bruening recurred on Grey’s Anatomy within the ABC medical drama’s ninth and tenth season — halfway by way of Drew’s seven-season stint as a sequence common — as Matthew, a paramedic with whom April falls in love. However — years-old spoiler alert — April left Matthew on the altar after Jackson made a last-minute declaration of affection.
Justin Bruening and Sarah Drew in ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ (Eric McCandless/ABC)
Then, Bruening returned in Season 13 after April and Matthew reunited offscreen, however current Grey’s episodes have proven that April and Jackson are as soon as once more a pair.
Aside from Grey’s, Drew and Bruening additionally starred within the 2018 Christian drama movie Indivisible, which additionally featured Grey’s actors Jason George and Michael O’Neill.
So by the point they filmed Reindeer Games Homecoming, Drew and Bruening have been effectively acquainted. “I was joking with her at the beginning: You know you get that phone call from your friend who’s like, ‘Hey, so I wrote a script,’ and right away, you’re kind of like, ‘Huh, really? Great,’” Bruening advised People. “But it was so funny and, having worked together so many times, I know how collaborative she is and how she does want to elevate everything.”
Added Drew: “I think it was super beneficial getting to work with Justin since we’ve been working together for 10 years. We’re just able to immediately leap in, and there’s no kind of trying to figure out the chemistry. We have a decade of history.”
Reindeer Games Homecoming, Saturday, November 12, 8/7c, Lifetime