I'm excited to hear about your new movie "The Enchanted Christmas Cake" because I love Christmas movies.
Me too.
Can you tell us what it is about?
Yeah, so this is finding our gal Gwen. So she is trying to have, kind of, a reconnection with her grandmother. Her grandmother was her soulmate, and one of the things that she did when she was younger is she baked with her grandmother. And so she's trying to bring Christmas back by baking this special cake, and she can't find the recipe. And so her whole thing is this obsession with trying to find the right ingredients, and it takes her along this journey.
And she ends up meeting this fellow, and, of course, they fight and then they fall in love, and it's wonderful for Christmas. But she's just really searching, I think, to find that connection again, to people that, you know, that are lost. ... And then she finds love, and it's at Christmas time and, like you said yourself, right? We all watch these movies at Christmas time for that kind of sentimental feeling of love and relationships and family, and even looking back into the past. And so she's trying to find this special ingredient.
And so it's a little bit rom com-y. I liked it. I was drawn to it a little bit more because it had a little bit more of the comedy beat in there, and she was allowed to be a little bit more foolish and quirky, which is more to my personality anyway, so yeah.
Your character Gwen teams up with a producer to shoot a Christmas special about her bakery — so you filmed a Christmas movie about filming a Christmas special. What was that like?
Actually, that was really quite fun. We did one particular piece where, we end up — she ends up on a TV show trying to promote it, and she's not an actor and not comfortable, and so that being inside of the book that way and trying to play her as nervous in the interview and that sort of thing was definitely outside my box, isn't what I'm used to doing now. So that was a little bit out there. [Laughs]
Yeah, because you're used to doing interviews all the time.
You get used to it. I mean, you get used to — Basically, you become a nerd to your own idiocy. So if you make mistakes or whatever, you're like, "Well, it just makes me human," but this character of Gwen took herself so seriously in what she needed to do, so I had this — I was getting to play that I was on a TV show, on a TV show, which was cool.
