Exclusive: Scandal alum George Newbern, Nia Vardalos (My Big Fat Greek Wedding), Phil Morris (Doom Patrol) and Dannah Lockett (The Kenan Show) are set for supporting roles opposite Lea Michele, Bryan Greenberg and Charles Michael Davis in ABC’s holiday movie Same Time, Next Christmas, from Freeform Studios.
In the movie, Michele plays Olivia Henderson, a young woman who met her childhood sweetheart, played by Davis, during her family’s annual Christmas visit to Hawaii. After being separated by distance and years, the two reunite at the same Hawaii resort years later and the old chemistry between them flares up anew – but circumstances conspire to keep them apart.
Newbern will play Woody Harrison, Olivia’s father, a laid-back easygoing southern California man who is still deeply in love with Faye, his wife of more than 30 years.
Vardalos will portray Faye Henderson, Olivia’s mother, a fit, attractive woman, a vegetarian...
In the movie, Michele plays Olivia Henderson, a young woman who met her childhood sweetheart, played by Davis, during her family’s annual Christmas visit to Hawaii. After being separated by distance and years, the two reunite at the same Hawaii resort years later and the old chemistry between them flares up anew – but circumstances conspire to keep them apart.
Newbern will play Woody Harrison, Olivia’s father, a laid-back easygoing southern California man who is still deeply in love with Faye, his wife of more than 30 years.
Vardalos will portray Faye Henderson, Olivia’s mother, a fit, attractive woman, a vegetarian...
- 8/12/2019
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
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