Keeping it actual! Curious Caterer costars Nikki DeLoach and Andrew Walker are still team Hallmark after some of the network’s stars moved in 2021 and 2022 to Great American Media.
“Let’s start with the circle of relatives that is Hallmark,” DeLoach, 43, exclusively instructed Us Weekly on Wednesday, February 1, whilst selling her and Walker’s 2d mystery film in combination, Curious Caterer: Grilling Season. “I’ve been lucky enough to paintings on a lot of other networks … that is the only network I’ve ever worked at in my 30-something years of being on this trade the place you truly are circle of relatives from the highest throughout.”
The Cranberry Christmas actress added: “I don’t know many networks the place you can pick out up the phone and speak to the head of the network or achieve out to any and all executives.”
Hallmark Media made headlines in January 2020 when its former CEO Bill Abbott left the company following a arguable choice to pull a same-sex industrial from the network. He introduced Great American Media — which contains Great American Family — twelve months later and many of Hallmark’s big stars followed him, including Candace Cameron Bure and Danica McKellar.
DeLoach, however, signed an unique, multi-picture overall deal with Hallmark Media in December 2022. Walker, meanwhile, announced his unique multi-picture contract with the community in April 2022.
“I think in this trade, you both evolve or you die otherwise you just, like, get left at the back of. And I believe that’s what Hallmark has been doing and they’re leaders in this [business], especially with those improbable ladies that at the moment are running this company,” the Three Wise Men and a Baby actor, 43, instructed Us on Wednesday. “There [are] some really fascinating issues that they’re taking up. We have similar sex marriage [stories]. We have biracial relationships. It’s what our world [looks like].”
Walker noted that “these are real stories” being portrayed by equally as complex actors.
“I think that’s anything that Hallmark has in reality put forward is that they wish to inform actual tales about actual other folks with that same, like, center and heat and familiarity that you get in a Hallmark film,” the Sabrina the Teenage Witch alum explained. “I believe that’s the wonderful thing about operating for this community. It’s simply in incredible what they’ve carried out to this point. Feel commemorated.”
DeLoach agreed with her longtime buddy — who she has starred along in four rom-coms in addition to the Curious Caterer franchise.
“There is that this true family unit that exists inside all people. We’re such cheerleaders for the opposite folks. We give a boost to every other’s films. We want the most productive for everybody,” the Awkward alum told Us of the Hallmark Media emblem. “We’re all friends. We hang around in combination. We do life in combination. We work together. We mourn together. I’ve never skilled that at another community.”
She continued: “It appears like that old school, like, Hollywood studio gadget the place that they had their actors that just circled in all the other movies that they made. I feel like that’s what Hallmark has created right here.”
DeLoach, who has worked as a producer and writer on multiple Hallmark films, added that the fanbase for those feel-good motion pictures is the cherry on best.
“Hallmark lovers are not like some other lovers I’ve ever had the gift of interacting with. There’s such a lot center. They are in reality a mirrored image of the content material that we create in this network,” the Taking the Reins actress mentioned. “They are so loving and so supportive. I am so thankful to be able to be part of this network. It has been a in reality one of the vital largest presents in my lifestyles.”
Walker, then again, pointed out how rare Hallmark Media’s success is within the leisure trade — and how its longevity has helped him department out into changing into a producer as neatly.
“It’s obviously something that we all talk about because the core actors in this community, the gift that we’ve been given to be able to paintings on a community that cares such a lot so deeply for his or her fans and the content material they’re placing in the market,” the 27-Hour Day actor advised Us. “Everybody feels supported. There’s no festival amongst us.”
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Curious Caterer: Grilling Season premieres on Hallmark Movies & Mysteries Sunday, February 5, at 7 p.m. ET.
With reporting through Kat Pettibone
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