Viv Leacock and Natasha Burnett have usually had a “natural” relationship, and their chemistry was on display even much more with Hallmark’s Legend of the Dropped Locket.
“Our serious life, sort of, banter and chemistry knowledgeable the condition with Amelia and Marcus,” Leacock, 49, exclusively explained to Us Weekly whilst endorsing the pair’s new movie. “If we’re laughing, that’s for true. What ever Natasha and I are undertaking, which is for real, we can consider it there. It is so significantly enjoyment doing work with her.”
Leacock and Burnett initially achieved on time 8 of When Phone calls the Heart in 2021, enjoying partner and wife Joseph and Minnie Canfield. Legend of the Misplaced Locket, which premieres on Saturday, April 13, marks their initial rom-com for the network.
In the film, Burnett performs a British antique vendor named Amelia, who comes to a modest town in Massachusetts exploring for a extended-lost locket that promises to bring accurate adore to those people who dress in it. When in the U.S. she fulfills regional sheriff Marcus, performed by Leacock, who decides to sign up for her on the treasure hunt.
“We each came up with the notion for these characters and took it to Michelle Ricci, who was the author, who then took the plan to Howard Braunstein, our producer, who then took it to our executive at Hallmark,” Leacock recalled to Us. “We all came with each other and more than a calendar year and a 50 percent designed the idea and the characters and the circumstance, and that’s what you saw on display screen.”
Burnett exclusively explained to Us before this month that her motivation to “play British” was a “big one” of the factors she and Leacock started off to collaborate on the strategy.
She pointed out that Leacock’s previous work as a detective on Hallmark Mystery’s Hailey Dean Mysteries franchise was another supply of inspiration. “We were being making an attempt to discover a concept that would carry the two jointly,” Burnett mentioned. “We generally realized that as friends between us, we frequently have the British English and American English discrepancies. So we understood it could carry a small little bit of humor to the movie if that could be put in there as well.”
Leacock exposed that Marcus and Amelia’s need to have to right every single other “all the time” in the movie was partly simply because he and Burnett typically battle in excess of what distinct things are called in the U.S. versus the U.K.
“That is dependent on the Tasha in actual lifetime, how she’s obtained distinctive text for distinct items, and I am for good attempting to copy her accent and it drives her outrageous,” Leacock confessed. “I just can’t enable it. [When] I’m about it, I start speaking like I’m from the U.K. and she’s like, ‘Stop undertaking that!’”
Some of people times include things like Amelia accidentally buying potato chips instead of French fries at the community diner. In England, “chips” imply fries and “crisps” are U.S. chips.
“That’s 1 of my preferred scenes, just that banter involving us even though we’re executing that [chip bit], it is entertaining,” Leacock advised Us.
Burnett also recognized “chipgate” as a person of the major moments to shoot, adding that her line about a “loft” and not an “attic” was also motivated by her actual lingo.
“I mentioned, ‘Oh, I know the loft, and he’s like, ‘the attic.’ And that basically was not in the script, but I considered I would say Loft. I wouldn’t say attic,” she remembered. “It was intriguing wherever I did not even notice in certain conditions where the American English and the richest English actually switched.”
In advance of manufacturing, Leacock recognized the duo “just have this genuinely neat chemistry and awesome banter in actual lifetime, and I was like, ‘We obtained to set that on movie in one particular of these rom-coms.’”
Burnett was in complete agreement, expressing that the costars have linked on “so numerous things” above the yrs that it was a no-brainer to deliver that to the movie.
“We feel to just get alongside for so quite a few different good reasons. So, it was easy to participate in contemporary day people where we could infuse banter that would almost certainly take place in between us,” she shared with Us. “Some of the appears to be like that we had among us ended up exactly points we would do with every single other. So it felt all-natural.”
Legend of the Dropped Locket premieres on Hallmark Channel Saturday, April 13, at 8 p.m. ET. Lovers can also stream it on Hallmark Films Now.
