Nikki DeLoach Wants a New Holiday Hallmark Movie With Andrew Walker

Nikki DeLoach is energized to be performing with Andrew Walker on Hallmark’s Curious Caterer Mysteries franchise — but she’s all set to reunite for a holiday getaway feature.

DeLoach, 44, exclusively explained to Us Weekly that she’d “love to” do a different Christmas-particular challenge with Walker, 44. The actors began their onscreen partnership with 2016’s A Aspiration of Xmas and if the stars align, they’d tackle its sequel.

“I’ve experienced this plan that I have been dying and wanting to do for years,” DeLoach mentioned, noting that a lot of lovers want a Hallmark sequel for a person explanation or another, but A Dream of Christmas is the a single she’s pulling for.

The actress envisions finding up 10 decades later on — considering that it would be a 10 years after they filmed the first installment — with Penny (DeLoach) and Stuart (Walker) possessing a few children.

“They experienced not experienced young children back again in the working day whenever we initial observed them in that film. They 1714801991 have 3 youngsters. They are underwater,” DeLoach instructed Us, imagining the new tale line. “They’re underwater with their employment. They’re underwater with their young children. They are underwater with life.”

She teased that it would resemble her and Walker’s life now as they are each married with kids. DeLoach shares sons William “Hudson,” 10, and Bennett, 6, with husband Ryan Goodell. Walker and his spouse Cassandra Troy also share two boys: West, 8, and Wolf, 4.

“I locate myself waking up each day and going to bed at the conclude of the working day fully and fully fatigued by all the doing that had to take place in that just one working day,” DeLoach stated of the inspiration. “And what if they both make a want unintentionally? ‘Oh my God. Yeah. Recall when we did not have obligation? Bear in mind when we did not have individuals to take treatment of just ourselves?’”

That want would final result in both figures “in an alternate actuality [where they] have to get the job done alongside one another to come again to just about every other.”

In A Dream of Xmas, DeLoach’s character needs for a split from her relationship. When Penny wakes up one and Stuart does not know who she is, she realizes that her everyday living was best the way it was and will have to test to patch it again with each other.

Whilst a sequel is something DeLoach has been “wanting to place out there and pitch for a prolonged time,” she has a 2nd plan for a vacation film with Walker that may well be just as exciting for enthusiasts.

“Andrew and I did this genuinely outstanding Newport Beach front Xmas Boat Parade occasion, which is the most remarkable holiday break occasion I have at any time been a section of. And it was a Hallmark movie,” DeLoach told Us of the 2023 expertise in California. “I was like, ‘All we have to do is set the cameras up.’ This is bananas, how Hallmark this is.”

The yearly celebration, which requires put in Newport Beach front, characteristics decked out boats with Christmas decorations and a visit from Santa. In the course of the December 2023 parade, DeLoach and Walker have been the grand marshals, which sparked the idea for a doable Hallmark film.

“We’re now pondering and trying to operate on something that we could perhaps do in partnership with Newport Seaside to put alongside one another a genuinely incredible film,” DeLoach stated. “And it would be for me and Andrew to star in.”

She recalled obtaining an “extraordinary” time watching the boat parade in individual, so substantially so that she and Walker have been brainstorming what is upcoming.

“They definitely are this restricted-knit group, which is so good. And it reminds me of how I was elevated in my modest city,” DeLoach gushed. “Just the function and effort that folks set into making their residences and their boats [festive] and everything’s just thoroughly Xmas vibes. It was amazing.”

Even though neither getaway movie has been greenlit by Hallmark, lovers can check out all of DeLoach and Walker’s Curious Caterer Mysteries movies on Hallmark Now. Some of their Hallmark Channel rom-coms are also out there to stream.