When The Way Home‘s Kat walked down a staircase in a red dress to the sounds of Sixpence None The Richer’s “Kiss Me” in Episode 5, it was hardly the primary time her portrayer Chyler Leigh had paid homage to the long-lasting scene from the ’90s teen film traditional She’s All That.
Leigh tells TVLine that the producers of Hallmark Channel’s time-traveling household drama “definitely knew” that the actress had already as soon as recreated the second during which Rachael Leigh Cook’s She’s All That character unveils her makeover whereas descending a flight of stairs to a shocked Freddie Prinze Jr. Leigh’s first tackle the scene occurred within the 2001 spoof Not Another Teen Movie, reverse Chris Evans, beneath way more foolish circumstances. (Instead of simply tripping on the ultimate step like Cook, Leigh’s character dramatically crashed via the staircase.)
The Way Home‘s version, however, was far more sincere, with Kat walking down to meet her best friend Elliot (who’s pining for her) to go chaperone the highschool’s ’90s-themed dance. (Fittingly, Kat and her daughter Alice additionally time journey to 1999, when She’s All That was launched, all through the primary season.) To cap the proper homage, Kat stumbles on the finish of the staircase, similar to Cook’s Laney. Watch it under:
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When Leigh learn the script for the episode, “I was laughing so hard. I was like, ‘Oh, my God, you did not!’” the actress shares with amusing. “But they always had that moment in mind from the very beginning. From what Alex [Clarke] and Heather [Conkie], our showrunners, had told me when I had the initial conversation, they were saying, ‘When we got this project, we always had you in mind. And so, when we wrote that, it was always kind of part of, like, a wish for that to be able to happen.’”
But Leigh did have a bit trepidation about stepping again into that beloved second: “I was like, ‘Wow, this is like 20-something years later. I feel a little bit old, but at the same time, maybe I can still rock that red dress,’” Leigh remembers.
The actress was additionally capable of make a much-needed vogue tweak to the long-lasting scarlet outfit to account for the Canadian temperatures the place the collection is shot.
“We had lots of conversations about how do we do this in a way that still honors the moment, but also covers me up a little bit more [for] when we do have to go outside and how cold it is,” Leigh shares. So a cardigan was added for a later scene outdoors the dance.
In the top, “it was so much fun to do it, and even the little stumble at the bottom with the shoes and whatnot, at least I didn’t go crashing through the staircase, which is cool!” Leigh provides with amusing.
The Way Home Season 1 is at the moment streaming on Peacock, Hallmark Movies Now and Hallmark TV.
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