Hallmark Channel's "Next Stop, Christmas" Has Lea Thompson Time Traveling Again

Next Stop Christmas doesn39t only reunite Thompson with Hallmark it also sees her return to a film genre she is well versed in time traveling The fact she39s sharing the fun with her Back to the Future costar Christopher Lloyd Dr Emmett quotDocquot Brown was no accident quotI think they were like 39Oh we got Chris Lloyd let39s get Lea Thompson39quot she joked of the casting quotIt seemed kind of like a shoo in but I was happy to do it I love the Hallmark family and I feel really grateful to them I mostly make my living as a director and Hallmark was the first to give me a directing job so I39m very grateful for all the work I39ve been able to do on the Hallmark ChannelquotBut with this one it39s such a strange thingquot she continued quotThis is the seventh movie I39ve done with Chris and maybe we39ve said one line to each other in all seven films Of those movies four took six months to shoot so it39s not like I was in and out We39ve worked together probably a total of twoandahalf years without having any lines together But we did get to hang on this one and got some pictures together I also get to see him at Comic Cons and the conventions we do together quite a bit so I39m very close with him It39s always so nice to see him as I just love and adore him He39s a great actor and he39s great in this partquotLloyd plays a mystical ticket agenttrain conductor who sells Angie Lyndsy Fonseca a ticket to board a train home for the holidays and possibly change her past After waking up from a nap Angie finds herself ten years in the past Completely disoriented she questions choices she made ten years ago the biggest turning down her former fiancamp23339s proposal Adding to that is the fact she knows that ten years from now her parents Evelyn Thompson and Marty Matt Walton have split up and if there is anything she can do to alter that outcome she39s all in Oh and she also has to figure out how to get back to the presentquotI think time travel is fascinatingquot Thompson said of the film39s theme quotWe all wonder what it would be like When I go home to Minnesota I often wish I could snap my fingers see what it looked like when I was a kid again then snap my fingers and be back I think that39s why people love This Is Us so much because they go back and forward in time I also just adored Lyndsy I feel so lucky to have had so many wonderful people play my daughters I have wonderful daughters but I became a huge fan of hers doing this It was also fun to play my character as a woman who has separated then watching her relationship dissolvequotHallmark makes a lot of Christmas movies and I39ve read a lot of themquot she added quotI thought this was one of the more superior scripts I39d read It39s funny cute and heartfelt It39s also interesting as it deals with fertility issues and adoption then parents dealing with whether you fall out of love after you39ve been together so long and how do you fall back in love That39s an interesting story I believe there39s a lot of levels here for people of all agesquotGiven her long association with cinematic time travel the idea of changing the past given the chance is something Thompson39s often asked about quotI39m of the school that everything happens for a reasonquot she shared quotI feel I39ve learned from all of my mistakes and they39ve made me the person I am Maybe if my career had been different I would39ve had less time with my kids I might have broken up with my husband That39s why I think time travel and changing the past is always such an interesting ideaquotOne thing Thompson seems to have captured is the secret of eternal youth While she laughingly attributes it to not changing her hairstyle her advice for staying youthful is easy quotI try to hang around young people or different kinds of people and try to keep my mind open to new things and try new scary thingsquot she said quotThe other day I39d just finished directing an episode of Resident Alien then flew home for a movie premiere and sang and danced at a Cancer Coalition fundraiserquotMy microphone didn39t workquot she laughed in closing quotIt was scary I was tired but it was for breast cancer and important and I did it They raised over 1000000 so it39s one of those things where even when I39m tired I try new things and try to give back I think that keeps you youngquotNext Stop Christmas will be telecast Saturday November 6 at 8 pm on Hallmark Channel as part of their annual Countdown to Christmas programming eventClick 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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