He began on When Calls the Coronary heart and has starred in quite a few Hallmark movies, and now Marcus Rosner has develop into of of Hallmark Media’s main males.
He already starred in a single Hallmark vacation movie this season, Flipping for Christmas, and is starring in one other December 14 on Hallmark Films Now known as An Ice Palace Romance.
As a Michigan native, the movie is relatabel. As a determine skating fan, it is easy to grasp how an ice enviornment is such a staple of a small Michigan city. Marcus Rosner and Celeste Desjardins have a pure chemistry, and it is enjoyable to see their skating abilities on the ice.
It is stunning TV Fanatic hadn’t talked to Rosner earlier than, and it was a pleasant dialog as he previewed the film, mentioned his unhappiness over Trip’s cancellation, and spoke about his future initiatives.
Take a look at the interview beneath:
Hello, Marcus. So, you might have develop into certainly one of Hallmark’s main males. How did this movie examine to a few of your different initiatives?
I had the chance to work with an actress I wished to work with for some time, Celeste Desjardins, who’s like an adoptive daughter of my hometown of Edmonton, the place I’ve a manufacturing firm.
I’ve wished to work along with her for some time as a result of she’s relationship my favourite hockey crew, the Edmonton Oilers.
She does the varieties of films I do, and we have been seeking to cross paths for some time, which offered that chance.
It’s additionally my first time taking pictures in Ottawa, which was wonderful, and I’ve’ labored with Muse Productions, a implausible firm I’ve labored with. For a lot of causes, this movie stood out.
Was there the rest that appealed to you about An Ice Palace Romance?
I used to be excited to get again on some skates. It’s been a number of years. Rising up, I performed lots of hockey and did lots of skating, as is the requisite for any younger Canadian boy. Nevertheless, it had been a very long time, so I may purchase some new skates and, uh, see if I nonetheless knew learn how to do it.
Canada and Michigan are positively the determine skating capitals of the USA. I’m an enormous determine skating fan.
I keep in mind watching determine skating with my mother rising up. We’d watch the Olympics, and I didn’t determine skate or something, however I enormously admired the game.
You stated it was filmed in Ottawa. Are there any explicit landmarks or something followers will acknowledge?
I don’t imagine so within the precise movie. We have been taking pictures at some neighboring cities simply exterior of Ottawa. However once I was in Ottawa, it was my first time in our nation’s capital.
I had the chance to see Parliament Hill, which I’d seen on TV my total life, and I felt like a nasty Canadian for by no means having visited. However I received the chance to once I was taking pictures this. So, it was good to discover that city.
What was your favourite half about your character?
I like that he was going in opposition to the grain on this explicit film. Normally, everybody’s in opposition to the massive evil enterprise, however they don’t have any energy to do something about it.
This time, your complete city approves of tearing down the Ice Palace, and my character begrudgingly stands agency, believing that it shouldn’t be torn down.
There’s a wonderful second within the movie the place my judgment turns into clouded, and I’m not seeing issues accurately. And so I like that side.
Inform me extra about working with Celeste and the actress who performed your daughter, Acacia Hanvelt. They each appeared very charming and like they each had some skating abilities.
The younger actress Acacia, who performed my daughter, was unimaginable at determine skating. She had been explicitly solid as a result of she was an excellent actress and had tons of expertise with determine skating.
She may simply pull off these lengthy, elaborate determine skating routines. Amongst this group of youngsters that have been common determine skaters, she actually stood out, and she or he was unimaginable.
Celeste, my costar on this, was pretty. We had quite a bit to speak about, similar to our favourite hockey crew, the Edmonton Oilers, who have been within the playoffs then.
So, we’d discuss concerning the video games, and we had the chance to observe one of many video games collectively. It was enjoyable to bond over that.
Would you need to work along with her once more?
I hope to be solid alongside her once more or rent her as an actor in certainly one of my productions.
You will have such a assorted profession. Do you need to hold being part of the Hallmark household?
Completely. So long as they’ll have me. I take a look at the Hallmark Channel because the group that received me out of bartending and helped make my dream come true as an actor, in that I wished to feed myself, home myself, and dress myself as an actor.
The Hallmark Channel put me on When Calls the Coronary heart, to start with, after which put me in numerous films since then.
If the day got here after we weren’t even working collectively, I’d all the time be grateful. However I don’t see it ending any time quickly.
An Ice Palace romance featured many vacation traditions. What have been a few of your favorites within the film, and what are your loved ones’s vacation traditions?
Within the film, we have now an excellent competition on the Ice Palace, and my character is obsessive about planning it and executing it nicely for the group. It brings folks of all ages collectively. It’s a wonderful approach for the folks of this city to have fun the vacations.
I come from a small city known as Sherwood Park, Alberta, simply exterior of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, and we have now an identical factor. Now we have this stunning lake down within the heart of city known as Broadmoor Lake Park.
They do a really related factor at Christmas with the lights, and all people comes down and drinks sizzling cocoa, and it seems like Christmas. And in order that was simple to narrate to.
I additionally loved watching you on Trip and was sorry to listen to about its cancellation. Have you learnt the place they’d have taken Austin’s secrets and techniques if there had been a Season 2?
If I had it my approach, they’d take us again in time earlier than my character’s loss of life. No, I don’t know. Sadly, it received’t proceed, however all people had a good time in that first season. I positive did.
Austin McMurray was the lead character, and if I ever play him once more, it’ll be a continued dream. That present felt very near house. It was filmed right here in Alberta, the place I’m from, and happened on a ranch. I grew up in and round ranches, which felt like a pure match.
What’s your subsequent venture after this vacation film?
The following one airing known as Love on the Proper Course and might be on January 6, 2024, on the Hallmark Channel. I filmed it in July 2023 in Budapest, Hungary.
My costar is Ashley Newbrough, and we play a few skilled golfers. That was a wild, loopy, implausible expertise. I like to journey for work.
I’ve labored with Ashley earlier than. We simply had a Christmas film on the Hallmark Channel known as Flipping for Christmas.
It was a whole coincidence that we have been solid collectively once more so out of the blue, however we made an excellent pair and had nice chemistry; every thing about that film was one other dream come true.
An Ice Palace Romance drops on Hallmark Films Now on Thursday, December 14 at 7 am/6 c. You possibly can entry Hallmark Films NOW instantly or by Amazon or Apple TV Channels.
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