Food Network Dishes Up a First: A (Real) Family Christmas Movie on discovery+

And there is another first for this movie It marks the acting debut of Ree Drummond Food Network39s The Pioneer Woman shows up as the owner of the town bakeryAs the title broadcasts this is a Christmas film Not surprisingly it adheres to the narrative structure people know and love Uptightamp160woman visits a charming small town during the Christmas season In this Molly the character39s and actor39s name is initially almost a parody of Los Angelinos She hasn39t eaten a carb in ages and is all about image The character sees herself as selfmade because she is head of marketing for a hotel chain but daddy is the ownerShe39s superficial and snobby in the beginning As the genre mandates she travels to a snowcovered picturesque town Peppermint Hollow Molly cutemeets a handsome man a genuinely decent fellow and some drama unfolds but nothing that invades your psyche and all ends well That39s not a spoiler it39s the Christmas movie formula They39re successful for a reason They workWhile Candy Coated Christmas hits every trope the delight is the father and daughter duo quotYears ago I was able to do a handful of episodes of The Bold and the Beautifulquot Molly told MediaVillage over a Zoom with her dad quotBut I was never on screen with him never even in the same scene with him So yeah it was pretty special to say the least because I39ve spent so much of my life on a set with him and seeing what he does And he39s visited me and seen what I do but we39ve never been able to do that together So it was a firstquotMolly39s manager had called her about this movie When she met with the director and producer she asked who they were casting as the father No one had been hired yet and Molly gently suggested her dad They had thought of him but figured his soap work would keep him away from a threeweek shoot in UtahquotLook I would have moved to Utah to do this if that39s what they neededquot John said quotIt39s so lovely that they responded to Molly saying that and that they were excited about it I was so grateful and it was so much fun It39s something that we39ve always wanted to doquotReflecting on behindthescenes moments John laughed as he admitted stumbling over their characters39 last name GallantShooting a Christmas movie means winter coats and scarves and it was 100 degrees when they filmed quotIt was brutalquot Molly said of the layers of wool clothes in the heat quotWe had a lot of flies flying around which was such an interesting thing that I39ve never had to deal with We had this scene where I had to walk up to the dinner table holding a plate of pancakes or something There were flies on them and it was late at night and I was delirious I could not stop laughing and the camera was on me and everybody else was looking at me And they just were laughing which was completely unfair because I had to keep it togetherquotNaturally Molly39s character comes to embrace the true meaning of the season quotI love when a character has a long way to goquot she explained quotI also really love playing the heart of someone especially someone who39s a little hard to love on the surface So I love the idea of being this spoiled selfcentered girl who was only that way because that39s what she was used to in her life and then going to a place that was out of her comfort zone and meeting people who are just sweet and liveamp160a simpler life than hersquotThere39s just such a beautiful arc of the story and such a throughline with her fatherquot she continued quotHe also has an arc and he39s the one who advises her to go to her mom39s small town and do this It39s almost like he knew how special itamp160would be for her to feel closer to her mom So there are a lot of good warm and fuzzy feelings in this movie But I think that39s the common thread with all of these Christmas movies that everyone lovesquotquotI was giddy about doing this with herquot John concluded quotIt was so much fun and it was easy It wasn39t like we were doing scenes where you39re tearing your hair out like what happens on the soap A lot of times it wasn39t a big dramatic thing It was just really nice It was relationshipbasedquotCandy Coated Christmas streams on discovery Friday November 19Click 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 views of MediaVillagecomMyersBizNet Inc management or associated writers

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