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Nikki DeLoach is worked up to be working with Andrew Walker on Hallmark’s Curious Caterer Mysteries franchise — however she’s able to reunite for a vacation characteristic.
DeLoach, 44, completely advised Us Weekly that she’d “like to” do one other Christmas-specific venture with Walker, 44. The actors started their onscreen partnership with 2016’s A Dream of Christmas and if the celebrities align, they’d deal with its sequel.
“I’ve had this concept that I’ve been dying and desirous to do for years,” DeLoach stated, noting that quite a lot of followers desire a Hallmark sequel for one purpose or one other, however A Dream of Christmas is the one she’s pulling for.
The actress envisions choosing up 10 years later — since it might be a decade after they filmed the primary installment — with Penny (DeLoach) and Stuart (Walker) having three youngsters.
“They’d not had youngsters again within the day each time we first noticed them in that film. They 1714778740 have three youngsters. They’re underwater,” DeLoach advised Us, imagining the brand new story line. “They’re underwater with their jobs. They’re underwater with their youngsters. They’re underwater with lives.”
She teased that it might resemble her and Walker’s lives now as they’re each married with youngsters. DeLoach shares sons William “Hudson,” 10, and Bennett, 6, with husband Ryan Goodell. Walker and his spouse Cassandra Troy additionally share two boys: West, 8, and Wolf, 4.
“I discover myself waking up day-after-day and going to mattress on the finish of the day fully and completely exhausted by all of the doing that needed to occur in that sooner or later,” DeLoach stated of the inspiration. “And what in the event that they each make a want unintentionally? ‘Oh my God. Yeah. Keep in mind once we didn’t have accountability? Keep in mind once we didn’t have individuals to deal with simply ourselves?’”
That want would lead to each characters “in an alternate actuality [where they] must work collectively to come back again to one another.”
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In A Dream of Christmas, DeLoach’s character needs for a break from her marriage. When Penny wakes up single and Stuart doesn’t know who she is, she realizes that her life was good the way in which it was and should attempt to patch it again collectively.
Whereas a sequel is one thing DeLoach has been “wanting to place on the market and pitch for a very long time,” she has a second thought for a vacation movie with Walker that is likely to be simply as enjoyable for followers.
“Andrew and I did this actually unimaginable Newport Seashore Christmas Boat Parade occasion, which is probably the most unimaginable vacation occasion I’ve ever been part of. And it was a Hallmark film,” DeLoach advised Us of the 2023 expertise in California. “I used to be like, ‘All we have now to do is about the cameras up.’ That is bananas, how Hallmark that is.”
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The annual occasion, which takes place in Newport Seashore, options decked out boats with Christmas decorations and a go to from Santa. Through the December 2023 parade, DeLoach and Walker have been the grand marshals, which sparked the concept for a potential Hallmark film.
“We’re now pondering and making an attempt to work on one thing that we may doubtlessly do in partnership with Newport Seashore to place collectively a extremely unimaginable film,” DeLoach defined. “And it might be for me and Andrew to star in.”
Andrew Walker has cemented himself as considered one of Hallmark Media’s greatest stars after making his community debut in 2012. The Canadian actor first left his mark on viewers that 12 months with A Bride for Christmas alongside Arielle Kebbel. The twosome reunited on digicam for 2015’s Bridal Wave, which launched Walker into an excellent larger title […]
She recalled having an “extraordinary” time watching the boat parade in particular person, a lot in order that she and Walker have been brainstorming what’s subsequent.
“They are surely this tight-knit neighborhood, which is so good. And it jogs my memory of how I used to be raised in my small city,” DeLoach gushed. “Simply the work and energy that folks put into making their homes and their boats [festive] and every part’s simply completely Christmas vibes. It was superb.”
Though neither vacation film has been greenlit by Hallmark, followers can watch all of DeLoach and Walker’s Curious Caterer Mysteries movies on Hallmark Now. A few of their Hallmark Channel rom-coms are additionally out there to stream.
