"There's a sense of beauty about family getting together on the holidays and making memories like, ‘What did you do on Christmas?” ‘What were you watching as the tree was being decorated?’” she continued. “It gives me chills to talk about it, but truly, all year long if I'm at an airport or in a mall people will come up to me with very real emotion to say, ‘You are a part of my family's Christmas tradition every year. We can't wait to see your new Christmas movie and it wouldn’t be Christmas without you and we've watched A Very Merry Mix-up each year since it came out.’ That's amazing because I remember what Christmas movies meant to me when I was growing up."
The switch to Hallmark Movies & Mysteries for this year's tradition was not something calculated on Witt's part. Rather, it was the film's heartfelt script that hit home. "Certainly while filming it we felt a depth, which was an unusual grief and emotion not normally seen in Hallmark Christmas movies," she explained. "I instantly fell in love with it. As an actor, sometimes projects just find you for a specific reason. I was very moved by the whole story and it resonated deeply. It made me cry the first time I read it and the second time."