What’s higher than two Tyler Hynes Christmas motion pictures in a single 12 months? Holland Roden becoming a member of him for Time for HIm to Come Home for Christmas!
Holland and Tyler star within the transferring and emotionally rewarding movie, the newest in a collection of Christmas motion pictures from Blake Shelton, primarily based upon his track, Time for Me to Come Home.
This movie begins 4 days earlier than Christmas when Elizabeth [Holland] receives a voicemail from a quantity she does not acknowledge. On the message, a person she does not know makes one last plea to the love of his life.
The movie takes viewers on an emotional journey as Elizabeth and her expensive, estranged buddy, Josh (Hynes), strive to join the items of her mysterious voicemail to make somebody’s Christmas want come true.
In the method, Elizabeth and Josh will overcome a painful previous, and 4 misplaced souls can have an opportunity at happiness.
I had the pleasure of chatting with Holland and Josh, and, as regular, we had a completely pleasant dialog. I hope you take pleasure in what they’d to say concerning the film, celebrating the vacations, and their treasured followers.
Tyler: Hey, Holland. How are you doing?
Holland: Hi, honey. I’m good. How are you?
Tyler: Long time.
Holland: I do know.
Tyler: How’s life? Are you excited for your film?
Holland: Yes, I’m okay. Yeah, it is going to be enjoyable. Our film is that this weekend, proper?
Tyler: Yes, ma’am. Have you seen it but?
Holland: No, I have not seen it.
Carissa: Have you seen it, Tyler?
Tyler: I’ve, yeah. You’re going to find it irresistible.
Carissa: I find it irresistible.
Tyler: Did you prefer it, Carissa?
Carissa: I did. I preferred it lots.
Tyler: Did you cry?
Carissa: I did not cry, however I did have that gulp-y factor happening, the place your throat’s just a bit… I’m just a little overcome. It’s a very good film, you guys.
Tyler: Oh, I’m glad you preferred it. Yeah, it is good. Holland did a completely spectacular job, as we’d all anticipate.
Carissa: Holland, Isn’t this your first Hallmark film?
Holland: It is. It is my first Hallmark.
Carissa: How fortunate for you. You had an important film, Blake Shelton producing, and Tyler is your co-star.
Holland: I received very fortunate. I used to be simply saying that. I’m doing this restricted collection proper now for them, and I saved referencing it again in August, so I used to be like, “Guys, yeah.”
And I had fairly the very fortunate welcome wagon of all people, Aurelie and Tyler and David, and they take actually excellent care of you. It was only a pretty expertise. Cassandra and Tara in make-up and hair. It was a very simply pleasant group.
Tyler: Holland, you probably did such a spectacular job. I hope you are comfortable along with your efficiency; I do know this was your first time doing it. There was an entire lot of chaos taking place, however I believe that you are going to be pleasantly stunned with the way it seems, I hope. And yeah, I believe all people’s excited for it.
Holland: I received to see one sneak peek. I noticed David on the Calgary airport, of all locations, in passing, and he was going to do one other film, and he emailed me a sneak peek as a result of we bumped into one another, so it was the one within the reward store.
Carissa: Tyler, what’s it like to welcome any person new to the Hallmark household?
Tyler: I do not know that I’ve any authority to be welcoming anyone.
Carissa: Well, positive you do; you are an outdated hat.
Tyler: Funny as a result of it looks like yesterday that I used to be not, and I used to be having the identical conversations on the opposite aspect, however I suppose it has been 4 years now and 14 motion pictures or no matter it has been. I do know, loopy.
Holland, if it is a life you want to to be part of, I can think about that this will probably be in your future if that is what you need, however it’s.
Holland: It’s been pretty, yeah.
Tyler: Yeah, it is a pretty place. And to have the opportunity to work with somebody like Holland who’s newer to this place, it is truthfully, once more, these motion pictures are a particular factor, and any person who is available in that has the expertise and aptitude and focus and thoughtfulness that Holland has, it is a pleasure.
And I do not do any sort of welcoming; I simply strive to be supportive nonetheless I can as a result of it is actually not my film. It’s her film.
Holland: No, it was an ensemble. We had such an important solid. Everybody in Tyler’s onscreen household was superior. Oh, such a expertise. And our mothers, it was only a actually enjoyable group. Christmas motion pictures are a factor, man. I imply, when you have a look at so many different networks now emulating the Hallmark construction, so to converse.
Carissa: Trying anyway.
Holland: Oh, they’re attempting, precisely.
Carissa: They’re not as profitable.
Holland: I observed there was a brand new Tom Hanks Christmas film out, or Tom Hanks and any person else. But yeah, I believe it is enjoyable that everybody’s simply in a contented place or needs to be again in a contented place. I believe after COVID, these motion pictures are wanted greater than ever.
Carissa: And Tyler, that is your second Hallmark film in two weeks. What do you want about doing these motion pictures?
Tyler: Correct. Well, I really like working with individuals like Holland, who’re pretty people who’re proficient and have their very own distinctive strategy. And that is all the time enjoyable. I like the truth that these are motion pictures.
It virtually feels just like the outdated film mannequin has disappeared. And so that is some microcosm of that the place each film, the prospect to do one thing totally different, to reinvent your self just a little bit and strive to take a brand new strategy.
And I believe it affords a specific amount of experimentation for me, personally, as an actor and a specific amount of creativity that I do not suppose is afforded when you’re going to be on a collection commonly or spend a 12 months making a film and then having it come out two years later.
There’s a rhythm to this world that feels just a little bit like outdated Hollywood, the place you are making a couple of of them a 12 months popping out, they’ve an viewers, and individuals respect them, which could be very good.
And then, each time you return to the drafting board, you get to reassess and go, “What do I want to do here? What’s going to entertain me or do something that I think is worthwhile doing?” And I believe that that is a really enjoyable factor. And clearly, the individuals who watch these motion pictures are the best human beings on the planet.
Carissa: They actually are.
Tyler: Yeah, it is completely foolish. I’ve different buddies who’ve individuals who observe them and such and listening to the kind of feedback or interactions that they’ve, it is simply wildly totally different than mine. And I can solely converse from my very own expertise.
And I did a Facebook Live yesterday with a Facebook group which might be those who watch my motion pictures, and it is onerous not to get completely emotionally touched by all the pieces on this neighborhood. So for all these causes is why I’m nonetheless right here and comfortable to be right here and grateful.
Carissa: Your two motion pictures could not have been extra totally different characters. I imply, you had been hilarious, and I hadn’t seen Three Wise Men and a Baby once I talked to you, however my goodness. I imply, actually humorous stuff.
And you had been fully totally different than the rest you’ve got been in. And then you definately received to do that, which is much extra dramatic and a contact of romance, and yeah, I can see why it might be very, very fulfilling to get these alternatives in such brief order and not have to wait some time for when it comes out.
Tyler: Yeah, completely. And having the ability to hear your response to it and individuals’s response to it this shortly after making it’s… Because I bear in mind all the pieces that I did. I bear in mind each alternative that I made. And then seeing the direct response to that’s, I believe individuals chase in theater, in reside theater, and in some way we’re on this.
I really like the self-discipline of filmmaking, however I began in theater once I was younger, and I did love the immediacy of that interplay and that response. And so I believe, in some way, I’m managing to discover myself within the circumstance the place I’m getting sort of one of the best of each worlds.
And precisely what you are saying, these motion pictures are very totally different, and subsequently the characters might be totally different. I get to strategy it with that sort of thoughtfulness the place I can push the characters farther a technique and the opposite in context to the opposite characters, which is enjoyable. This one goes to be totally different than actually Three Wise Men and a Baby.
Carissa: Sure, a lot totally different.
Holland: It’s an important analogy. The immediacy is that you just, like Tyler was saying, positively really feel such as you made these decisions yesterday, and they are much extra on the forefront of your mind of remembering every take and the take they selected for that scene. So it is very nice. It is unquestionably the theater for TV so far as the turnaround that they are in a position to get these out.
Tyler: I’m excited for you, Holland, to expertise that. Because, once more, I understand how considerate and disciplined you’re and how charismatic and how simply you deal with this world, however I do know that you just care about what you do, and I do know that you just care about these performances. So having the ability to have a direct response, I can not wait for you to expertise that.
Holland: Oh, completely. I come from a world with a really loyal fan base from a present I used to be on for a very long time, so they appear very related. And I’m positive there are concentric circles even in those who watch Hallmark and those who watch Teen Wolf.
Tyler: Yeah? You suppose?
Holland: There might be. I’ll be curious to see as a result of seeing Tyler’s relationship with the those who watch his motion pictures felt actually heartwarming however very related. And so I’m very curious to see. Teen Wolf is just not regular within the relationship that we have now with them and how usually we get to see them at signings, and that is very related to Hallmark.
So I’m excited to be hopefully welcomed into one other household and simply really feel that heat as a result of there’s not, all reveals do have that heat, and not all networks have that heat, so it is a rarity to expertise it as soon as, not to mention twice. So I’m simply nervous and excited to see how that reception will go. But it ought to be enjoyable.
Carissa: And do not be nervous. Don’t be nervous in any respect. What I really like about having somebody such as you are available with an already-established fan base is even when they weren’t followers of Hallmark motion pictures earlier than, you are going to be bringing a brand new viewers to Hallmark.
Holland: Maybe.
Carissa: And then, oh, they will come. They will. If you are in one thing, that is what they do, they observe you, and they need to watch you.
Holland: Oh, nicely, I can not think about a number of the themes which might be in that present positively are on this film as nicely.
Carissa: Totally.
Holland: So yeah, I’m curious to see who’re already followers of Hallmark as a result of the quantity of those who watch these Christmas motion pictures is fairly astonishing. And I suppose I’m not stunned as a result of they’re such nice feel-good motion pictures.
I’m curious to see, I guess you there are already Hallmark followers within the Teen Wolf household, so I’m simply excited to, like I stated, to meet them and see how they like our movie.
Carissa: So would every of you go forward and simply inform me just a little bit about your characters and the place we discover them firstly of the film and just a little bit about their journey, with out spoiling an excessive amount of, and what you actually loved about enjoying this specific character? Do you need to begin, Holland?
Holland: Sure. I play a woman that’s the daughter of a beauty empire, and with out giving an excessive amount of away, I’m ushered into this type of pre-made profession if I so need it. However, I would really like to take a special course in a special business.
And concurrently, we have now a gaggle of buddies which might be assembly up for the vacations, and there’s a time minimize all through this film. And it is a matter of circumstances that occur in a single timeframe and the way it impacts the opposite timeframe. And a little bit of a scavenger hunt is all lumped into this film, so there are a number of storylines happening.
I’d virtually say there are 4 storylines versus possibly three when you’re fortunate. And this one, I really feel like, virtually has 4. And so the way it’s all weaved in and out of one another can be a testomony to Marcy Holland.
Carissa: How about you, Tyler?
Tyler: So my man, Josh, is a author. Both Holland’s character and my character. We’re writers, and they’re type of on their approach to changing into journalists in an even bigger approach of their careers when one thing happens in each their lives that finally ends up setting them in several instructions with all types of water underneath the bridge and issues on unsaid that we find out about in our story.
I believe what’s good about this film is that our characters are sort of set, and it is extra concerning the circumstance that we’re in, the way it’s affecting our characters in real-time via the story that we’re being instructed that creates the arc of what that character’s going via. It’s not like he learns one thing about himself.
I imply, he does, however this isn’t the main target of the film. It’s concerning the circumstances that they are in and telling the 2 storylines which might be taking place concurrently, which makes this film actually, actually lovely, I believe.
And how they replicate off one another, each storylines making a little bit of an interaction with one another could be very enjoyable. And I believe my character has a purity in what he needs, however we see him make errors that get rectified within the film.
Holland: It’s fairly the jigsaw puzzle. I believe it is in all probability extra of a jigsaw puzzle than Hallmark sees on a traditional foundation.
Tyler: Yes, that is this. Yeah, this was Marcy Holland, and I’m so glad that Holland introduced her title up as a result of she wrote an ideal script. It was one of many scripts that you just learn, and you simply go, “This is perfect. I wouldn’t change a thing.”
And it was a stupendous, tightly-woven tapestry that she constructed that has simply the correct quantity of data and simply pulls you alongside web page by web page. And I believe the film did the identical factor and captured an excellent tone to it that makes it really feel joyful and bittersweet, somber however stuffed with love and heat. And it is received a very attention-grabbing feeling to the film.
There’s a track that they put in it, I suppose it is a Grammy-winning track known as Peace Joy Love. And it is simply this lovely choir repeating this phrase over and over once more. And it’s extremely emotional, and it is within the scene with you, Holland, once you’re on the church, lighting a candle.
Holland: Oh, attention-grabbing. Okay.
Tyler: And this track, they despatched it to me once I was engaged on the final film I used to be doing on my approach to work and simply discovered myself listening to it on a repeat, blubbering.
Holland: Oh, it is pretty.
Tyler: It is that this lovely track. But I believe that track actually encapsulates the sensation of this film.
Carissa: You’re proper concerning the feeling of this film too. It actually evokes a number of emotion. And what I really like about it’s that a number of instances, Hallmark motion pictures might be predictable.
Tyler: Yeah.
Carissa: But right here, you do not know the place it is taking you.
Tyler: Oh good, sure.
Carissa: There’s nothing predictable within the film in any respect.
Tyler: Yeah. It’s humorous as a result of it is like this emotional powder keg, however as a result of it is wrapped on this type of thriller, it is received a thriller-y, enjoyable side the place you need you simply go alongside for the experience. So the emotion of it does not get too potent or highly effective the place it overwhelms you, however it’s actually there.
But the joys of determining what occurred or what these tales are and what’s occurring as that thriller unravels it is a bizarre mixture of enjoyable, intrigue, and loss. Do you understand what I imply? Or some grief. It’s an attention-grabbing mixture.
Holland: Yeah. It’s value noting that musical visitor Tenille Townsend is on this film, and she is past pretty, as nicely. She might be probably the most, I imply, it is not even to say that she was a pure actor for a musician; she was only a good actor.
Tyler: She was so good. She was so good within the film. I watched, and I used to be like, “What is going on?” And you felt that in individual.
Holland: She was wonderful. She was simply pretty. I used to be like, “Girl, you got a career if you want one; I know you already are doing this thing pretty wholeheartedly.” But she was actually pretty, and her voice is unbelievable, very pure. Like the runs that she will do, acapella, however effortlessly, and she’s very humble about it and only a pretty spirit to have on set.
I turned a fan. I’m not even a standard nation individual, though I’m from Texas, But she made a fan out of me, and I would like to go see her in Nashville. Hopefully, individuals will see the good massive cherry on the sundae is having her part of the movie.
And congrats Tyler; I’ve been seeing all of the protection for Three Wise Men and a Baby. It seems so cute.
Tyler: Yeah, it was an excellent time. It was very good. People appear to take pleasure in it. Carissa is a fan, so I’ve succeeded.
Carissa: Oh, it was simply very humorous.
Holland: Has Hallmark seen that dynamic earlier than with Three Men and a Baby?
Carissa: No.
Holland: That’s nice. I really like that. Sorely wanted, so I’m glad you guys stuffed that place.
Carissa: I’ve been a proponent for years of attempting to get many Hallmark actors into one manufacturing as a result of there are such a lot of alternatives for siblings, for buddies, and it was all the time simply male-female. And now that we’re getting these three females, three males collectively, they’re improbable motion pictures. It’s actually, actually utilizing the expertise nicely.
Tyler: It’s our personal little HCU, Hallmark’s cinematic universe.
Holland: I used to be going to name it the Justice League of Hallmark. Yeah, all of them converge.
Tyler: That’s proper. There’s any person who made a poster of an Avengers poster with the three of our faces in there and the child within the Baby Bjorn.
Holland: Ah, that is nice.
Tyler: It’s improbable; I’m only a massive fan of it.
Carissa: That’s superior. So what do you suppose that viewers are most going to like about this film? What’s going to enchantment to them probably the most?
Holland: I believe, as a viewer, I really like a number of twists and turns that hold me on my toes.
I believe it is going to be subjective to every individual watching, however for me, what entices me most about this movie is the serendipitous connection, six levels of separation kind of film, so that is what initially drew me to the script. It’s simply my bag of tea. Yeah, for me, that is what I’d select. But I believe it is within the eye of the beholder. What about you, Tyler?
Tyler: Yeah, I believe what you are saying is totally proper. The thriller unfolding goes to be the tether that pulls all people via it. And I believe the truth that Blake Shelton is concerned and he is managed to herald somebody like Tenille who’s unbelievably proficient, she provides a completely pretty efficiency on the finish of our film singing Christmas track.
I believe they play the entire track ultimately of the film, and they only hold coming to me, and you canoodling within the viewers, and it is fairly pretty. But I believe the truth that they get that entire efficiency from Tenille goes to be a pleasant factor.
And I believe Holland’s efficiency and the efficiency of our different solid on this film, mixed with the writing being so nicely thought out and exactly executed, I believe that it will make for a uniquely-toned Hallmark film that’ll have a number of heat and a number of coronary heart and just a little little bit of heartache, but in addition a number of enjoyable and some nice music so it is a fairly difficult mixture and I believe persons are going to take pleasure in it a bit.
Holland: Yeah, to echo that, I’m biased, however the music, with Blake Shelton being concerned like Tyler stated, is possibly a notch above the remaining as a result of it’s musically centric, extra so than different Christmas motion pictures. So that is one thing that makes a viewer go, “Oh, that sets it apart from the rest,” completely.
Carissa: And my last query for you is, what message would you like to share along with your followers this vacation season?
Holland: This is type of off-topic, however what comes to my thoughts is I had an thought for this Christmas, and I believe this may be achieved on any financial stage, however I believe forgoing presents and going someplace with both your folks or your loved ones, whoever you rejoice the vacations with, that might be even with simply your canines when you’re solo.
But I like this concept that, for children, is likely to be a special story, however as all grownup kids going residence to your mother and father or to your loved ones unit, I’d say journeys. Either that is down the street, and you are tenting, or that is getting on an airplane and going to someplace you are not used to going, the local weather that you just’re not used to being in.
I believe foregoing the materialistic a part of it and having extra of a shared expertise is one thing that I want my household did extra of. And I hold pushing it on the agenda. So I believe a collective shared expertise is without doubt one of the strongest presents you can provide at Christmas.
So I’d urge individuals to doubtlessly suppose alongside the traces of that this vacation season. Obviously, the five-year-old, they are going to need the most recent, newest, coolest doll or motion determine. But for these a bit extra mature, I’d say strive that on for dimension when you’re trying for new concepts.
Carissa: How about you, Tyler?
Tyler: I believe what Holland’s saying is totally pretty, and I really like that sentiment, and I wholeheartedly agree. I believe there is a custom that I type of started with my household and buddies the place we take a tiny little shot out of a tiny little boot-shaped shot glass. It seems like a boot, a Santa boot.
Holland: Aw.
Tyler: And so I give it to all of my buddies and household, and all of us take a photograph of ourselves taking a shot out of it at Christmas, and we grasp it on our tree as an decoration.
Holland: You instructed me about this.
Tyler: Yeah. So we began it; I’m going to have to ship you a boot.
Holland: Aw.
Tyler: This was one thing that I spoke about in a earlier interview or two, and the parents who watched these motion pictures on this particular Facebook group, they type of joined in on this custom final Christmas, and we did a reside the place we simply all took a drink collectively, and individuals made collages, and they shared it with one another of all people’s screenshots at that second.
I believe it simply made individuals, whereas being type of splintered other than COVID, really feel like they had been with people and, such as you’re saying, Holland, with out too many materials possessions being concerned.
And I believe that was a very pretty factor. And so then I’ve spent the final 12 months making a cloth possession within the type of these boots. [laughs]
Holland: I might need to steal this concept as nicely; I really like this concept.
Tyler: It’s wild. Yeah, they’re probably the most pretty human beings on the planet, and it was like my brother put up the web site, and they are going, “We’re trying to purchase it internationally, and we can’t.” I’m going, “Oh my goodness, bear with us.” And then different persons are chiming in, going, “We’re going to buy it for you, and we’ll send it to you because you’re in Ireland.”
Carissa: Oh, that is pretty.
Tyler: It is probably the most heart-smashing factor you possibly can probably expertise. And so if there’s any message to say to anyone, it might be that I very significantly a lot respect all people’s perspective and spirit when it comes to this world that we type of play within the sandbox.
I’m extremely grateful for all people. Even of us like your self, Carissa, you’re a lot part of this entire expertise for individuals who watch these motion pictures, for myself who makes them. And I really like this type of ecosystem that we’re in, and I’m simply extremely grateful and grateful for that. And I’m grateful for you and the conversations that we get to have.
The reality that there is any curiosity in any respect within the issues that we’re spending our time fascinated with and doing, and I simply need all people to really feel that love and appreciation as a result of it’s extremely, very a lot one thing that I take into consideration usually and day by day. So thanks. I’ll begin by saying thanks, Carissa, right here since you’re proper in entrance of me in the meanwhile, so I actually respect it.
Carissa: That, my buddy, is why you are a star. That’s why you are a star of Hallmark. That’s it proper there.
Tyler: You’re very sort. I’m not the man, I’m quantity two. You’re incorrect. Number two on the decision sheet. Holland’s the star, she’s primary. I’m the opposite man.
Holland: It’s each of us.
Carissa: You’re each stars. You’re each stars in my guide.
Time for Him to Come Home for Christmas premieres on Hallmark Movies & Mysteries on Saturday, November 26 at 10/9c.
Carissa Pavlica is the managing editor and a employees author and critic for TV Fanatic. She’s a member of the Critic’s Choice Association, enjoys mentoring writers, conversing with cats, and passionately discussing the nuances of tv and movie with anybody who will hear. Follow her on Twitter and e mail her right here at TV Fanatic.
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