Katie Stevens isn’t any stranger to a superb love story. By her personal admission, she’s a real hopeless romantic. So, it’s solely becoming that, now, she’s taking romance to a different degree — and one other century, because it had been — in Providence Falls, Hallmark’s sweeping new three-part film trilogy primarily based on the beloved e book collection by Jude Deveraux and Tara Sheets.
Within the collection, Stevens (who received us throughout on The Daring Sort) performs Cora McLeod, a fiery aristocrat’s daughter in 1844 Eire whose forbidden love with Liam O’Conner (Lachlan Quarmby) is so highly effective that not even time can include it. Their story will get much more layered when just a few meddling angels transport Liam to present-day Oregon, however forbid him from being with Cora.
It’s half interval drama, half time-travel romance, half cop procedural… and Stevens will get to embody Cora in each worlds.
We caught up together with her to speak concerning the pleasure (and problem) of taking part in two variations of the identical character, working with Sweet Magnolias star and executive producer JoAnna García Swisher, why Lachlan Quarmby’s strains are pure swoon gas, and the way she believes love — and friendship — can transcend time.
Scary Mommy: You’ve shared on Instagram that you simply had “the time of your life” engaged on Windfall Falls. What units this undertaking other than different work you’ve accomplished?
Katie Stevens: I really feel like I had so many challenges and firsts with these motion pictures, attending to type of do a interval piece and in addition the procedural cop facet of issues. And there have been so many issues that these movies type of checked off: doing a e book adaptation, taking part in an precise e book character, attending to shoot in Eire, having to do an accent, and simply with the ability to bond with this forged and crew.
I simply had the very best time on this undertaking and acquired to problem myself in so many distinctive methods, and stunned myself in a lot of these methods as nicely.
SM: This story blends romance, time journey, future. It’s such a enjoyable twist on a typical Hallmark film. What hooked you if you first learn the script?
KS: Actually, the truth that I virtually acquired to play two completely different characters as a result of I acquired to play Cora in 1844 after which extra of the modern-day Cora. I’ve all the time wished to do a interval piece, however attending to type of discover who this individual is in two completely different time intervals, as a result of, clearly, the time they’re dwelling in is so completely different.
1844 Cora would not actually have company over her personal life. She would not get to decide on what her future and her future seem like, which is why, when she meets Liam, it is so thrilling to her. He represents all of these issues she needs out of life. However I feel simply having the problem of, How do I play these two completely different time intervals whereas nonetheless sustaining a throughline of who Cora is on the coronary heart of it?
SM: Yeah, that is sensible. Man, at one level, Liam says this line, “She’s the love of my life, of all of my lives,” and it is so swoon-worthy…
KS: Truthfully, all of his strains are swoon-worthy! The road the place I come down in my police ball outfit, and I am like, “Is it an excessive amount of?” And he says, “It will solely be an excessive amount of if somebody may get sufficient of you.” I used to be like, each woman watching that is simply going to be gripping the facet of her chair, being like, “Ah.”
SM: So true. Did their story make you consider on this concept that sure loves are so huge that they transcend even destiny?
KS: Oh, I am essentially the most hopeless romantic of all of them. I wish to suppose that love transcends time and that our soulmates discover us in all of the completely different sorts of lives we have lived. However I feel that everyone simply needs to seek out love and be beloved, and so to carry on to the concept that finds you regardless of who you’re and regardless of the place you’re, I feel that is a extremely stunning message.
SM: You guys have nice chemistry. How did you construct that rapport?
KS: Lachlan and I discuss it on a regular basis. Once you’re doing one thing the place you are taking part in a romance or you have got a love curiosity, there are these nerves, and it is virtually like if you get paired collectively, it looks like a bizarre blind date in a approach.
However with how our schedules are if you’re filming, you are spending so many hours collectively and to type of reduce by means of and get to know one another higher, any wall that you’d ordinarily in your life construct as much as maintain individuals out, you virtually must tear that down instantly and actually type of get to know one another. A minimum of that is how I work, and this forged works the identical.
However funnily sufficient, it type of occurred in the identical approach as our characters. We had been taking pictures all of that early stuff the place Cora’s assembly present-day Liam for the primary time, and you are like, “Oh, there is a familiarity right here. I can not actually put my finger on why, as a result of I additionally do not actually know you.” And it type of felt like actual life was mirroring that too, as a result of we had been all attending to know each other.
SM: Effectively, your cup positively runneth over within the romance division.
KS: I do know. Fortunate woman, Cora.
SM: JoAnna Garcia Swisher, who all of us love—
KS: I’m obsessed together with her.
SM: Identical! She’s an govt producer on Windfall Falls. What was it like working together with her? Any probability we’d see you pop up on Candy Magnolias in a future season?
KS: I might like to. I really like that present a lot. I used to be a fan of it earlier than I used to be even part of this, so getting to satisfy her and to know her is a present. She’s an unbelievable actress, has been for a few years, however she’s additionally an entrepreneur, an unbelievable producer — all issues that, as a younger lady within the trade, are issues that I might like to finally do.
So, to have someone like her be such an unbelievable position mannequin in that and get to know her and watch her work in that capability was actually, actually, actually particular.
SM: OK, talking of girlhood, you, Meghann Fahy, and Aisha Dee have stayed shut since The Daring Sort — it’s so beautiful to see y’all cheer one another on. Feminine friendships might be difficult, as we see on this film, however do you suppose these sorts of deep feminine friendships are simply as epic and enduring because the love tales we see onscreen?
KS: Oh my gosh, a number of the largest loves of my life are my girlfriends. I do not know the place I might be with out these feminine friendships. Meghann and Aisha turned my sisters on The Daring Sort, and that has continued by means of the years, even after the present ended.
Once you make these connections, they’re so completely different than romantic love, however for me, they’re simply as vital. I feel that loads of occasions you may get misplaced in romantic love relationships and generally neglect about your feminine friendships. I am so fortunate and grateful that I by no means have, and that I’ve maintained these relationships. I consider that, as girls, we’d like these feminine friendships as a result of females simply get one another differently.
Half 1, Windfall Falls: Likelihood of a Lifetime, is now accessible to stream on Hallmark+. Half 2, Windfall Falls: An Unimaginable Promise, premieres Saturday, Aug. 9, at 8/7c on Hallmark Channel, adopted by Half 3, Windfall Falls: Thief of Destiny, on the identical time on Saturday, Aug. 16. All three motion pictures can be accessible for streaming on Hallmark+ the day after premiering.
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