It’s that point of the 12 months that vacation motion pictures take over Hallmark Channel (with “Countdown to Christmas”) & Hallmark Movies & Mysteries (with “Miracles of Christmas”), and we find it irresistible. We’re not the one ones, as TV Insider discovered after we not too long ago caught up with the celebrities of the flicks on the purple carpet for Hallmark Media’s star-studded kickoff of “Countdown to Christmas.”
“I think we all know by now that Hallmark is about Christmas, it’s about connection,” Nadine Ellis (The Holiday Stocking) says within the video above. And, as Ashley Williams (Five More Minutes: Moments Like These) notes, it allowed folks to discover a connection, to really feel “unified” through the pandemic, “a true time of isolation.”
And these motion pictures embody tales that everybody can take pleasure in, as The Holiday Sitter‘s Jonathan Bennett and George Krissa share. “We love telling stories at Hallmark Channel, especially LGBTQ+ Christmas stories, because just like Hallmark Channel’s for everyone, Christmas is for everyone, and these tales are for everyone,” Bennett says. Their film is “joyful, fun, [and] heartfelt,” Krissa provides.
For Andrew Walker (A Maple Valley Christmas, Three Wise Men and a Baby), “it’s therapy for me working in them, and I think it’s the same thing for people watching them.” Victor Webster (A Christmas Cookie Catastrophe) echoes that sentiment: “With everything going on in the world right now, it’s nice to be able to sit down as a family and watch something where you know there’s going to be a happy ending.”
Taylor Cole (Long Lost Christmas) factors out, “the promise of a happy ending, I think, is just exactly what people need in this world.”
So lots of the stars identified how a lot Hallmark is sort of a household, each on and offscreen.
“Hallmark is one of the most incredible families I’ve ever, ever seen in this industry but also just in any industry,” says Erin Cahill (Christmas Bedtime Stories). Niall Matter (When I Think of Christmas) agrees, explaining, “it’s the people that keep us coming back. Everybody here is just a really good person, nice, kind, and they care about you.”
Alexa PenaVega (Christmas Made to Order) sums it up effectively with “Hallmark just feels good. It feels familiar, and it feels like family.”
Watch the video above for extra from the celebrities within the Hallmark household.