Andrea Brooks Celebrates 10 Years at Hallmark with "A Lifelong Love"

quotI feel like I39ve reaped the benefits of being a Vancouver actorquot she added quotThis has been a matter of being in the right place at the right time and just working with the most fantastic people over and over again I love the way Hallmark operates as there are so many familiar faces they gravitate towards So I do feel fortunate to still be a part of this family and it39s grown as the years have gone on It39s just an absolute pleasurequotWhen choosing A Lifelong Love as her next project Brook39s decision to do it all came down to the aforementioned familiarity In fact it was whom she39d be working with that pulled her out of a welldeserved break quotI got the phone call for this and it was tough because I had a threemonthold babyquot she recalled quotI39d kind of given myself permission to take a bit of time for myself It was winter I wasn39t thinking about projects and was focused on family life At first I didn39t know if the time was right then they mentioned the team behind it who are all friends and I was like 39Oh yes yes39 That was the sales pitchquotSoon after saying 39yes39 they revealed it was filming in Winnipegquot she continued quotI was like 39Okay I39ll bring my snow boots39 Then I found out that Patch May who I39d worked with before on a romantic comedy was the colead At that point it was an absolute nobrainer perfect situation As we39d all worked together we picked up where we left off There was none of that awkward initiation process when you usually start making a movie like figuring out how you like to work We just jumped in and we were all systems go It was such a brilliant fabulous time in the end So finding out who the director executive producers and my costar were made it an instant yesquotA Lifelong Love explores the story of aspiring poet Annika Brooks who is desperate to have her online works published in a book When her pitch meeting goes disastrously wrong her wouldbe publisher offers her another project document her widowed grandfather Abe39s Tom Young search to reconnect with his first love Ruth Barlowe Brenda Gorlick via a book of poems based on love stories she gathers on a roadtrip during the search Documenting the people she meets along the way is Ryan May a photographer and Annika39s exboyfriend who agrees to the project after having his book idea rejected As the couple reluctantly team for the expedition will they see the great love story they39re searching for is possibly their ownquotI thought Annika being a poet was super interestingquot Brooks said of her character quotI studied English literature at university That was one of my majors for my undergrad So I actually did spend several years reading absolutely everything I think this character is modeled more after some of the Instagram poets who have kind of risen in the ranks in recent years and that was interesting Her being a poet is something you would not typically expect maybe a newspaper editor or someone who writes magazine articles An online poet was definitely different I probably share the same degree that this character would have having studied English lit which was exciting Fun fact there were a lot of writing discussions going on behind the scenes in this moviequotOne of the refreshing things about this movie is it shows in a sense that you can restart your lifequot she added quotThings don39t have to end The second chance aspect at love is pivotal and a cohesive piece of the plot that ties everything Obviously Annika and Ryan are taking a second chance as we39re pursuing this second chance for my grandfather I think it39s an important element and one I hope resonates with lots of people because there are a lot of people out there who take a second chance start again restart their life find new love and move on It39s really genuine and really sweet to tell a story about thatquotHaving the story take place on a road trip also appealed to Brooks who believes it harkened back to a simpler time quotHaving our characters physicalize the search for Ruth was so much funquot she said quotThat39s something that kind of died with the Internet Now we39d just go on Google and do a search to find the town or look for the person on Facebook We do that but it kind of crushes the mystique I loved that this story deals with the reality that there are hundreds of Ruth Barlowes What are we going to do to find the right onequotI would love to do something like that because so many connections can be formed along the wayquot she offered in closing quotWhat this story chronicles is the fun that can be had So yes 100 I would jump in a car and try to find somebody39s longlost love if I couldquotA Lifelong Love will be telecast Friday July 21 at 9 pm on Hallmark Movies ampamp Mysteries Click the social buttons to share this content with your friends and colleaguesThe opinions and points of view expressed in this content are exclusively the views of the author andor subjects and do not necessarily represent the 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