Lacey Chabert and Scott Wolf portrayed siblings for 6 seasons on Party of Five — and the pair are reuniting 23 several years later on Hallmark’s 2023 Countdown to Xmas.
Chabert, 40, and Wolf, 55 — who starred as Claudia and Bailey Salinger, respectively, on the Fox series from 1994 to 2000 — will be paring up as an additional sister-brother duo for the new first motion picture A Merry Scottish Christmas. The film, which was published by Andrea Canning and Audrey Schulman, will premiere later this calendar year through the network’s yearly holiday break programming function.
“Scott and I have talked for yrs about performing an additional venture collectively. When we very first read through this story about these siblings at a crossroads, we both knew it was the ideal opportunity,” Chabert reported in an official statement on Tuesday, January 27. Wolf, for his portion, is just as thrilled to share the screen with his longtime pal.
“Working with Lacey on Occasion of 5 was just one of my favorite encounters ever,” the Nancy Drew actor gushed on Tuesday. “Reuniting after all of these several years to notify these kinds of a stunning tale together is a dream that I’m so happy is coming true.”
The film will stick to estranged siblings Lindsay (Chabert) and Brad (Wolf) as they journey to Scotland for Xmas to reunite with their mother, Jo (Fiona Bell). The moment they’ve arrived, even so, a massive spouse and children mystery is revealed — and it might just alter everything.
“We are so thrilled to reunite Lacey and Scott and know our viewers will tumble in adore with this motion picture,” Lisa Hamilton Daly, Government Vice President, Programming, Hallmark Media, explained on Tuesday. “The nostalgia of viewing Lacey and Scott with each other once again on screen is heading to be a exclusive holiday getaway handle for our viewers.”
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Even though Wolf is rather new to the Hallmark spouse and children — he starred in 2019’s A Christmas Enjoy Tale reverse Kristin Chenoweth — Chabert, for her portion, has made her mark in over 25 films for the community more than the decades.
“These films mean so a lot to me. I really am legitimate when I say that,” Chabert exclusively told Us Weekly in Oct 2021 about building each holiday break and calendar year-spherical Hallmark flicks. “They’re not just work and I really feel a duty to the viewers to make the absolute greatest movie I can.”
The Mean Girls star noted at the time that she’s tried out to “raise the bar” on each individual task to hold supporters coming back again for much more.
“[When] somebody lets you into their dwelling place for two several hours, it’s variety of an honor,” Chabert told Us. “I want to go away people today with a superior feeling.”
Wolf, meanwhile, has starred as Carson Drew on The CW’s Nancy Drew considering the fact that 2019. That identical 12 months, he bought candid with Us about rewatching scenes from his Social gathering of Five days — a relatives drama that was known for its psychological beats.
“There’s a individual scene where [my character] Bailey is kind of slipping on the sword for the previous time for the loved ones and stating he’s not likely to go to university and stay residence so [my sister] Julia (Neve Campbell) can go to faculty and that he’s Ok,” Wolf explained. “There was one thing so … I’m emotional suitable now speaking about it! Immediately after all that time, they wrote this attractive scene involving [brothers] Charlie (Matthew Fox) and Bailey, it so encapsulated who he was through the study course of the complete point, that it was genuinely, truly shifting to see due to the fact I experienced neglected about the scene.”
Regardless of not letting his little ones to view the sequence quite still — Wolf shares sons Jackson, 14, and Miller, 10, as effectively as daughter Lucy, 9, with wife Kelley Limp — he confessed that he’s regarded letting them to tune in due to how relatable the demonstrate proceeds to be even nowadays.
“I feel they [his children] listen to Party of 5 mentioned so normally that it looms in the qualifications of our lifestyle, to finally place a experience to that point would be neat,” he instructed Us. “I speak to individuals all the time who are seeing it with their family members and they say that the tales are so human and reliable and timeless. It was a genuinely great conversation starter for mom and dad with their kids back again then, I imagine I would acquire gain of that also.”
