"That's why with TV shows, coming into the second season, things start getting really good because people have all been able to really sink their teeth into their characters, and the storylines, and stuff. On these 15-day shoots, you hit your groove day eight a lot of the time, and things start loosening up a little bit more. He shook things up more on set than I've seen in a long time. "Look, in Hallmark movies, are we allowed to take that many risks? Not necessarily, but still, he's really off the cuff. In addition to a growing friendship with James that includes texting and rounds of golf, Andrew learned a lot about their field from the seasoned actor, especially when it comes to taking risks.
Only when she looked him up did they realize Andrew had a natural ice-breaker sharing that connection with Emily. I've had a couple of scenes with him now, and I love acting with him,' and she's like, 'Well, what's his name?' I said, 'James Tupper.'"Īndrew said that Cassandra watches about as much TV as he does, but she recognized the name. And I was three days into working with James, and I called my wife, and I go, 'Cassandra, man, this guy's so incredible.
So Emily VanCamp and Josh Bowman are my wife and my best friends, and we've known them for years and years. As it turned out, Andrew had no previous knowledge of Revenge, though, and the connection took him and his wife by surprise. He was also excited to work with James because they have another friend in common, Emily VanCamp, who played James' daughter in Revenge, a show we at TV Fanatic know very well. Just coming off of Big Little Lies and working with Meryl Streep, Andrew picked James' brain about working with a cast of that caliber.
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"So when I'm playing my role, James Tupper's character is my new father figure or acts as a father figure to me, and so he treated me a certain way in that movie that allows viewers to see that we had this dynamic, this very comfortable dynamic."Īndrew said that James was incredible to work with. That sentiment reflects directly to Andrew's connection to James Tupper's character in My Christmas Family Tree. It's how people treat me that makes me the Queen when I'm playing my role." "So it's a beautiful inside-outside experience where you take a bit of reality, and you take a bit of imagination, and you try just to embody that and not so much play it."Īndrew reflected on Helen Mirren when she was asked how she played the Queen, and she said, "I don't have to play the Queen. Even though my mom is not at all who she used to be, my dad is still very much a presence in my life, and I speak to him every single day. With the example of Kristopher, knowing that I lost both my parents in that film, it makes me appreciate having my mom and my dad still around. If it's losing a parent or, God forbid, losing a child, you have this platform where it can be healing.
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You're able to take certain things that you've either experienced already or that you potentially might experience and know how to process that.
And so there's a piece of Kris that I was able to draw from in losing his parents because I feel like I am processing the inevitable loss of my mom and the way she's not at all who she was, who I've remembered her being throughout my life. "Fortunately, it's been ten years, but only really started to get bad during the pandemic. Andrew finds it easy to identify with Kris's situation, as his mother has Alzheimer's.
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