00:00 Skyler, tell me, how will the dynamic
00:04 between Kat and Alice will be in this new season?
00:08 Well, there's a lot of learning that they both, um,
00:13 had to endure, um, a lot of heartache,
00:16 you know, the ups and the downs.
00:18 From season one, when we first meet them,
00:20 um, it's a very rocky time in both of their lives.
00:23 So, through the challenge of the pond
00:26 and all the journeying that they do together,
00:29 um, I think it healed a lot of parts in them
00:32 that needed to be healed.
00:33 Um, but as we journey into season two,
00:37 now that she's really exploring even more
00:40 and my character Kat is gone,
00:43 she's starting to come upon, uh, certain instances
00:48 that were-- Elliot in particular and Kat
00:51 are a bit nervous for her to see.
00:53 So, Kat gets very protective
00:55 and wants to keep Alice from-- from going back
00:59 or Alice from experiencing maybe something
01:02 that, uh, has been swept under the rug, uh, a few times.
01:06 Say, your character Alice is strong, is independent.
01:10 What do you like the most about playing her?
01:13 And do you relate to her in any way?
01:15 Absolutely. I think Alice is probably the character that,
01:19 you know, that I've played that I relate to the most.
01:21 I think that in a lot of ways, you know,
01:25 but like, aside from the-- just...
01:28 how much she loves her mom, loves her grandmother,
01:31 she loves music, these things that we have in common,
01:33 um, I just feel like there's a very--
01:37 there's a very thin veil between Alice and I in a lot of ways.
01:40 Um, but one of my favorite things is just,
01:43 like you said, how-- how strong and independent
01:45 and courageous she is to, um, push her family
01:49 to do the healing that they need to do.
01:50 I think that, um, she's seen how much these, like, secrets
01:56 and silence between her mom and her grandmother,
01:58 how much damage that's done.
02:00 And it takes a lot of courage to-- to push people in your life
02:03 to have hard conversations, and I love that about her.
02:05 She's able to do that for her family.
02:07 Ivan, what attracted you to this project in the first place?
02:11 When I first laid eyes on the script for The Way Home,
02:15 I was speechless at the end of episode one.
02:21 Not only because, uh, I loved the writing
02:24 and I loved the, uh, the subject matter,
02:27 it felt so evocative, but also because of what
02:31 a brave expansion it is for Hallmark
02:35 compared to what they usually make.
02:37 And we know that the-- the basic tenets of Hallmark,
02:41 which are about hope and family,
02:43 these things are present in our show,
02:44 and audiences are not going to feel betrayed,
02:47 and they don't.
02:48 But we are expanding on that and telling stories
02:52 in a way that are gripping and keeping people
02:55 on the edge of their seats,
02:56 and not only making it appointment viewing,
02:58 people are showing up, chomping at the bit to see every week,
03:01 but also they're watching the episodes three, four times
03:05 with a fine-tooth comb, trying to glean
03:08 every little piece of information
03:10 so they can predict theories about what's going to happen.
03:12 And I think this is something wholly new for Hallmark
03:15 and is-- is really gratifying for us as the storytellers
03:18 because, uh, we know when the audiences are watching this,
03:22 and they're watching that closely,
03:23 we have them right on the--
03:25 like, we have them right on the head of a pen.
03:28 They're watching so closely, and from that point of view,
03:30 we can tell really impactful storytelling.
03:32 And so when I first signed on,
03:34 I was coming in with a sort of highest-level
03:38 dream expectation of what this could be,
03:40 and it has been surpassed and then some.
03:43 And it makes me really excited for what's ahead with the story
03:45 because it just gets bigger and deeper from here.
03:48 For the three of you, if you could travel in time,
03:52 which would you prefer, going to the past
03:54 or travel to the future?
03:56 Oh, good question.
03:59 I like-- I like going to the past.
04:02 I-- I have to say that going-- doing this show
04:05 has definitely fulfilled some sort of fantasy
04:08 to-- to time travel to the past.
04:10 And, you know, that question of,
04:12 "I wonder what my mom was like when she was my age,"
04:14 I feel like through this show, I've been able to live that,
04:16 and-- and I love that about this-- this piece, so.
04:19 Yeah. How about you?
04:22 I-- I would rather go to the past.
04:25 Um, I think that the future is so, um, hard to predict,
04:31 and I don't think I want to see what's coming.
04:34 I'd rather-- preferably, I'd rather live in the present.
04:37 But if I had to choose, I'd probably go back
04:40 and be like a fly on the wall in-- in as many, like,
04:43 big conversations, you know, that have happened in history
04:46 just to kind of see, "Oh, this is where it started,"
04:49 and kind of then, you know, maybe see if I can
04:52 make things happen.
04:53 What happened will always happen, though.
04:55 -Oh, gosh, you're right. -Fine.
04:58 Elliot says so many times in the show, in season one,
05:02 that the pond will send you where you need to go.
05:04 And so I think that if I had the opportunity to time travel,
05:07 I think the best case scenario would--
05:09 that I would have some sort of semi-sentient
05:12 time travel mechanism that would send me
05:15 exactly where I needed to go, even if I didn't know
05:17 why I was being sent there, because I was there
05:19 for some reason. So for that reason,
05:21 I think that the time travel mechanism we have
05:23 on this show is brilliant and has lots of narrative,
05:26 lateral possibilities, and I would like to be
05:29 part of that in real life.
05:30 You are such a suck-up.
05:31 (LAUGHING)
05:34 That face.
05:35 (laughing)
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