The Way Home season 2 is almost here and stars Chyler Leigh and Sadie Laflamme-Snow are spilling the tea about what’s to come back with Us Weekly, including how they take care of pond frogs!
In honor of the upcoming season, which premieres on Sunday, January 21, Us Weekly teamed up with Hallmark Channel for a different screening on Wednesday, January 17. The mother-daughter match came about at The Garland in Los Angeles and used to be harking back to the summer season set of Port Haven.
Guests loved “The Port Haven” vintage martini and “The Pond” spicy margarita specialty cocktails whilst nibbling on small bites. The lawn celebration location featured twinkle lighting fixtures, a at ease couch by way of a fireplace and a photograph sales space, which both Leigh, 41, and Laflamme-Snow, 24, enjoyed ahead of going into the theater.
Once inside of, attendees previewed the season 2 premiere earlier than the display’s leading women replied questions.
“It’s so cool to be operating on a show that’s created through ladies and about ladies,” Laflamme-Snow, who plays Alice Landry, told Us and the crowd all the way through the panel. “I simply feel such as you simply feel so heard at every flip, and that’s something that has been an enormous blessing in the process.”
The Way Home tells the story of 3 generations of Landry girls, Del (Andie MacDowell), Kat (Leigh) and Alice. When Kat and Alice come to Port Haven to reside with Del, they should face their circle of relatives’s tragic past with the help of a time-traveling pond.
Scroll down to peer what we realized about The Way Home, its stars and the new season:
Why Did Chyler Want to Play Kat?
“I've a quite strained courting myself personally with my mother. I haven’t spoken to her in about 20 years. So when you have a look at the script, there’s those eerie similarities to it that make it relatively cathartic now and then,” Leigh mentioned throughout the Wednesday panel, moderated by means of Us. “But I relate in that sense. But then also I've teenage daughters, so I even have my little baby chicken [with Sadie on set]. She’s my baby fowl. And so I find a lot of similarities in there.”
Leigh endured: “I think that was once a large a part of with the ability to in truth tell tales. It was once in reality my first time enjoying a mother, which Is cool. And Andie MacDowell’s daughter. So, I imply truly, it’s kind of like the very best of each worlds.”
What Drew Sadie to Playing Alice?
“For me, I believe like in an instant, I think I did the audition, and I had a sense about the audition scenes. Alice was actually grumpy, and she was once in reality bratty with her mother,” Laflamme-Snow recalled. “And you simply more or less know you will have somewhere to go with that since you’re hearing what the sequence and it’s all about circle of relatives and it’s all about those women making amends.”
She explained: “I met Alice in a place of natural rage. She just was so mad about moving to a small town and her family used to be so broken and she was simply in reality going thru it. And so it was thrilling to see kind of like, ‘OK, how are these other folks going to seek out their way again to one another?’ So that was once exciting, right from the get-go.”
Will Alice Find Love in Season 2?
“I think with regards to Alice at the end season 1, there used to be more or less the challenge ahead of her, which is, ‘How do I be in the provide?’ So I feel we see her in the previous as this sort of loving, open individual and she desires to take a look at and produce that to the present,” Laflamme-Snow stated. “So there’s some things on the horizon for Alice. I won’t get into that an excessive amount of, however there’s folks.”
The actress teased fanatics will see “romance for all the different generations of ladies” during season 2. When it comes to Alice, however, Spencer (Kataem O’Connor) might be The One. “From the get-go, he kind of takes her underneath his wing,” Laflamme-Snow explained. “And so we see that she’s simply so excited to see him and we’re like, ‘Oh, she’s became over a brand new leaf.’”
What Is Chyler’s Off-Screen Dynamic With Love Interest Evan Williams?
Williams, 39, performs Kate’s adolescence best good friend and brief love interest in season 1, Elliot, however Leigh instructed Us their chemistry wasn’t instant.
“I’m so going to throw him underneath the bus,” she joked, revealing that the first time they had been on set was once to movie a funeral scene. “Evan and I had pretty much simply met, and we’re intended to carry palms as though we’ve been buddies without end. We go cling fingers, but he actually, he’s going to kill me. He literally simply wiped his nostril.”
Leigh recalled everybody crying as it was a tragic scene. “And he wipes his nostril, and he places his hand down and what a boy, he doesn’t even put it on his pants,” she defined, including that Williams grabbed her hand with out pondering.
“We call each different boogs as in boogers. If that’s in any way, shape, or form telling of our courting on and off digital camera,” Leigh published. Despite their awkward first assembly, Leigh said she loves him “so much,” calling her scene partner “a fantastic human being.”
Who Is Team Kat and Elliot?
During the season 1 finale, Elliot informed Kat he needed a damage to find his own way. Leigh confessed that while she doesn’t fault the character’s selection, as partial to the display, “I’m like, ‘No, but why?’ So it’s heartbreaking.” She teased that she does think “Kelliot” is endgame.
Laflamme-Snow, on the other hand, had a different take as Leigh’s TV daughter. “I believe that Elliot pill is hard to swallow for Alice. I feel when she reveals out, or suspects that there’s been some sort of behind the scenes one thing occurring that she didn’t find out about, she’s lovely weirded out on such a lot of ranges,” she advised the target market.
The actress added that Alice is “protecting of her mom. And I believe now and again kids will do this to their parents where they can’t let their dad or mum just do their very own factor.”
(*2*)What’s It Like Filming the Pond Scenes?
Throughout season 1 and now in season 2, both actresses soar into a murky pond on their land which lets them time shuttle. While the impact is a new angle, it isn’t as glamorous for the stars. “The pond that we film [in], it is disgusting. It is a herbal pond stuffed with frogs,” Leigh revealed. “We’ve realized the complete lifecycle of a frog … and whatever more thing was skittering throughout the floor.”
She shared that the actual underwater shots are filmed in a pool, however they leap into an actual pond. “It was a large number of thought that went into [shooting the ones scenes], and it was once the handiest way that it is advisable in reality see us clearly as a result of yikes, [it’s] milky and green. Ew, that grossed [me out].”
Would Chyler and Sadie Team Up for a Hallmark Holiday Movie?
“I wish to say if shall we do roughly like a Nightmare Before Christmas kind of vibe. If we sort became it on its head only a skosh. Then maybe,” Leigh mentioned, hinting that it will need to be a unique kind of story. “So may just we do that? Maybe now not?”
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She joked that for now, “we’ll stay to making things tremendous highly spiced. Little edgy. I adore it. We’ll do this,” hinting that “yeah” a Christmas movie may just sooner or later transpire.
Season 2 of The Way Home premieres on Hallmark Channel Sunday, January 21, at 9 p.m. ET.
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