TV & Movies
This year I starred in my very first Hallmark Christmas movie.
It wasnt nearly as easy as Chabert makes it look.
Is this how Lacey Chabert does it?
I was starring in my very firstHallmark Christmas movie,A Kismet Christmas.
Underrated millennial iconLacey Chaberthas starred in 33.
), I fantasized about having Chabert as my Hallmark Christmas Movie Mentor.
The Audrey Hepburn of Hallmark, if you will.
(Hallmark Christmas Movie heroine much?)
Do you have any tips for how I can be the best Hallmark Christmas movie star I can be?
I ask, immediately sounding like Im trying toAll About Eveher.
Well, loving Christmas doesnt hurt, she says, with a warm, easygoing laugh.
Its an answer so simple and charming its worthy of a pageant queen.
As a cynical LA actress, I cant help but think she almost seems too perfect, too polished.
Who is the thespian behind this mask of Christmas cheer?I resolve to find out.
Chabert had twocatchphrases as a kid: Saying I want to be in there!
to the TV and, Why can’t Christmas be longer?
Today, her childhood dreams are reality.
Shes beenon our television and movie screens since 1994sParty of Five.
(Chaberts Hallmark makeup artist is coincidentally the same one she worked with on the pilot.)
She demurs, Man, I never felt cool.
I always felt like I was behind the times.
For years, she struggled with feeling like she constantly had to reintroduce herself to the industry.
What was it I really wanted to do?
Did this really inspire me still?
Chabert recalls wondering when her phone rang.
Its through this partnership that Chabert has succeeded in her childhood goal of making Christmas longer.
For a moment, her unfettered Christmas spirit makes me feelinadequate.
I grew up Jewish and only kind of celebrated Christmas.
(My grandma did always give me a calendar.
But not an advent one.
Just a calendar.)
You kicked off the season for us!
My self-flagellating spiral is no match for her genuine holiday cheer.
This summer, Chabert and I both filmed in 100-degree heat in Utah and Canada, respectively.
Once again, Chabert commiserates.
Im the same way.
It might be a dozen times before I’m able to do it.
She watched Lindsay Lohans Christmas movie with her daughter.
She has a Home Shopping web link loungewear line!
But the most enduring one is: stop trying to be perfect.
Miss your snowballs target!
Drink old, cold coffee!
Shes just truly grateful to be doing what she dreamt of as a kid.
Lacey Chabert and Hallmark Christmas clearly just fit together, like a present and a bow.But what about me?
(Chabert agrees that Hallmark is like Bravo, but with a few more twinkly lights and mistletoe.)
If Hallmark called me again, I dont see why Iwouldntstar in another Hallmark Christmas movie.
Is there room for a cynical, sarcastic, meta freak like me at the cozy connection?
They become our superpowers.
My heart brims with newfound confidence.
Then I realize:Oh my God.
!It will clearly be a long time before the princess can become the queen.
But I will remember the wisdom she imparted unto me on this fateful day.
Chaberts next movieThe Wedding Veil Expectationspremieres Saturday, January 7 at 8/7c.
