Issues are getting heated, y’all! The Chicken Sisters is now serving up a second season, and the stakes are even greater for the 4 ladies on the coronary heart of the collection: Nancy (Lea Thompson), Amanda (Schuyler Fisk), Mae (Genevieve Angelson), and Gus (Wendie Malick). From a brand new fried hen rivalry and rekindled romances to household secrets and techniques and small-town chaos, there’s loads occurring in Merinac.
Based mostly on the Reese’s Guide Membership choose by KJ Dell’Antonia, Hallmark’s multigenerational dramedy has returned, and this go-round, it’s upping the spice issue. Scary Mommy sat down (in two separate conversations) with the collection’ stars to speak about Season 2’s large themes and why it’s by no means too late for a recent begin.
Lea Thompson & Genevieve Angelson on Daddy Points and Taking part in Ladies Who Carry Every Different Up
SM: It broke my coronary heart seeing Nancy’s battle with Frank Jr. Will we see extra mother-son drama?
Lea Thompson: My son, bless his little coronary heart … He isn’t the brightest bulb. So sure, Nancy’s going to have far more battle with him, and it will actually warmth up within the second season. Fortunately, I haven’t got this drawback; I really like each my daughters, they usually’re superior. However when you might have a child that goes astray, the way you get them again is an attention-grabbing factor to consider.
SM: Genevieve, Mae’s received a marriage forward. What are you able to tease about her journey to “I do”?
Genevieve Angelson: Once we meet [Mae] in Season 1, she’s simply the very picture of being uptight as a means of managing her unmanageable previous. This season, we actually get to see what occurs when she embraces chaos and lets all of it go. And yeah, I believe for lots of girls once they’re going through their romantic future, daddy points come up. So you’ll, sure, be seeing a few of these for certain.
SM: Nancy additionally has a love curiosity this 12 months. Will we really feel she is empowered sufficient now to rewrite what it means to be a ‘Frannie’s lady’ in a relationship?
LT: Sure, we do. I find yourself with the very eligible bachelor Pastor McGregor. I get to kiss him within the very first episode, which is fabulous. He is an exquisite actor. However she does, via the season, discover ways to not disappear into the connection like she did in her marriage. And I believe that is a extremely necessary lesson for lots of girls — to not form of simply completely disappear whenever you’re courting somebody.
SM: Completely. I really like how the present touches on issues like weaponized incompetence and poisonous masculinity, however does it in such a ‘palatable’ means.
LT: It is true. I imply, everyone knows what is going on on; you needn’t put a pin in it.
SM: Nancy’s relationship with Amanda is so heat. Was it refreshing to play a non-meddling TV mother-in-law?
LT: Sure, she has a really open coronary heart. She sees her daughter-in-law straying from her marriage … and might nonetheless discover a means again into understanding her as a result of she does actually deeply love her.
That is one of many issues we actually love in regards to the present is that these are 4 ladies who love one another and take a look at to determine the way to elevate one another up and assist each other. That is a lovely factor. And generationally, I’ve a daughter and a granddaughter, and all of us deal with one another as individuals, as equals, as mates — which I actually love.
SM: Genevieve, you’ve mined some deeper feelings with Mae’s backstory. How was that shift?
GA: It was extremely rewarding to be on a present the place you get to play utterly absurd humor that is, to me, on the extent with any of the best comedies on TV. Then additionally, whether or not or not you might have any explicit level of relationship with hoarding, to be somebody who’s contending with stuff from her household and from her dad and mom that she finds insufferable, I believe, is a quite common level of entry. Definitely, yeah, it’s a pleasure as an actor to have each of these poles.
Wendie Malick & Schuyler Fisk on Moving into Your Energy and Letting Go of the “Previous Stuff”
Scary Mommy: What’s one factor followers will probably be stunned by this season?
Wendie Malick: Males. There are much more males this 12 months in a great way — and in everybody’s life, actually. Is not that true? All 4 of us. Some actually yummy males to return and play with us this 12 months. We’ll see the way it seems. It does not essentially imply it will go nicely, however we get to have some enjoyable.
SM: Gus has somebody from her previous reentering the image this season. What are you able to share about that dynamic?
WM: She’s been mysterious about the place her daughters got here from, and she or he’s been shunned by the group for years. Lastly, she decides to only pull the set off and convey Mae’s father out … as a result of Mae’s getting married and actually would really like her father to stroll her down the aisle. After a lot resistance, I resolve I must get out of my very own means and be there for my daughter. So, each Mae and Amanda are my considerably estranged daughters, and this 12 months we’re beginning to lastly heal and are available collectively as a household. I’m doing my greatest to do my half, although it’s extremely arduous.
SM: Amanda went via fairly a metamorphosis final season. What have you ever loved about her evolution, and the way does that proceed this 12 months?
Schuyler Fisk: Amanda actually will get to return into her energy this season, and that was actually enjoyable to discover. And it was occurring for me in real-time as a result of we did not get the scripts very a lot forward of time. So two days earlier than we might shoot, we might do two episodes at a time, we might get the scripts, after which we might be like, OK, that is what’s occurring. It was simply so thrilling, and I’m such a giant fan of all our writers.
SM: There’s a giant theme of girls moving into their energy. What message do you hope that sends?
WM: I hope that girls can have a look at that character who’s nicely into her third act and understand that it is by no means too late to show over a brand new leaf, that we’re by no means performed till the very, very finish. When you suppose you are set in your methods and you may’t presumably be taught one thing new or do away with a foul behavior that is not serving you, you then’re blinded to potentialities. We’re all works in progress. Irrespective of how outdated you’re, life will shock you if you happen to give it an opportunity.
SF: Similar. For Amanda, she’s had this life [where] she was a spouse and a mom, and now she’s transitioning to a brand new chapter the place she’s determining herself. And there are not any guidelines — it is by no means too late. Simply since you did not make the alternatives you wished to whenever you have been youthful, you’ll be able to nonetheless get after it and determine your self out.
WM: Additionally, being mild with your self. When you’ve made some large errors, made some dangerous decisions, all people does it. You may let your self off the hook and simply say, ‘OK, I discovered from that, and I am not going to try this once more.’
And to not maintain onto the outdated stuff — the outdated stuff that does not serve you … That could be a recipe for catastrophe as a result of all it finally ends up doing is supplying you with righteous anger. It makes your coronary heart simply shrink, and it isn’t vital. Life is simply too quick for that.
SM: Gus struggles to simply accept assist, which is one thing I relate to. Recommendation for individuals like us?
WM: It is actually arduous. I get it as a result of it is normally that we have created armor; we put a protecting factor round ourselves. It’s a must to actually sit with that and suppose, Is that basically serving me? Is that this actually how I wish to reside? Is it actually feeling protected, or is it being in jail? You understand, what is the worst factor that may occur if I open myself as much as any individual?
Possibly you may get damage. However if you happen to discover somebody that you just suppose looks like a very good egg and you can belief, you may be amazed at how good it feels to have the ability to simply categorical your self, get issues off your chest, after which have an opportunity to only wipe the slate clear and take a look at a unique tack.
SM: Meals is such a giant a part of the present. What’s your go-to “love on a plate” dish?
SF: Gosh, I like to entertain. I like to serve. I like to cook dinner … I like to have a diffusion out so when individuals arrive, they really feel very welcome they usually really feel like they’ll simply nibble and choose. I’ve so many recipes that I’m going to. An enormous one, a go-to, is unquestionably like an Arctic char or salmon, only a easy roasted fish. It is so fast and straightforward, and clean-up’s straightforward. It is a crowd pleaser.
WM: And he or she is a wonderful hostess.
SF: Roasted peppers, too. Like to roast some peppers. salad. Rice.
SM: We’re coming to your own home subsequent for dinner.
SF: Come on!
Tune In for All of the Rooster-Fried Enjoyable
So, there you might have it — Season 2 guarantees to be a hearty reminder that it’s by no means too late to develop, forgive, and begin recent. And if you are able to do it over fried hen? Even higher.
The primary episode of The Rooster Sisters Season 2 is now streaming on Hallmark+. Subsequent episodes will air on Sundays at 8/7c on The Hallmark Channel and be accessible for streaming on Hallmark+ the next day.
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