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Viv Leacock Teases That you can even agree with ‘Hailey Dean’ Revival With Kellie Martin, Remembers Their Instantaneous Bond (Queer)
Viv Leacock’s roots with Hallmark date serve to the early 2010s, and his role in the Hailey Dean Mysteries franchise mild has followers talking.
“Once I first came on to Hallmark, I bought an different to work with my astonishing fair appropriate friend Kellie Martin on Hailey Dean Mysteries, and five minutes into meeting Kellie, we clicked,” Leacock, 49, completely suggested Us Weekly, while promoting his recent project, Story of the Lost Locket. “We clicked over a mutual adore of Lethal Weapon. That used to be our thing.”
He gushed: “Severely, five minutes in, I used to be adore, ‘Oh, here’s a first rate friend for lifestyles.’ We factual clicked and it used to be to the level the build you couldn’t repeat how lengthy Kellie and I had been striking out half an hour into looking at us work collectively.”
Leacock called it “a lucky circumstance” that he fashioned an instantaneous bond with Martin, Forty eight, while playing Detective Fincher Garland and vulnerable prosecutor-became-therapist Hailey Dean, respectively.
From 2016 to 2021, Leacock and Martin costarred in 9 Hailey Dean Mysteries movies, solving crimes and in the spoil discovering out who used to be liable for Hailey’s fiancé’s demise. Whereas Leacock has stayed busy at Hallmark Channel, he longs for extra movies with Martin.
“If they’re seeking to lope [tomorrow], let’s lope,” Leacock suggested Us of a imaginable Hailey Dean revival, asserting he’d reprise the role of Fincher “in a heartbeat.”
The actor teased, “We’ve been chatting about that for years. I’d adore to revisit Hailey Dean Mysteries ensuing from Kellie and I … I don’t know if I’ve made a first rate friend quicker than that in my lifestyles.”
Leacock recalled having “chemistry” with Martin on digital camera that used to be made imaginable by their gargantuan relationship off display.
“Kellie Martin is Auntie Kellie in my dwelling. That is who she is to my formative years and my wife. And after I am going to LA and talk over with, that’s who I am to her [kids],” he shared. “We’re household now. So, we positively would adore to earn that again.”
When requested what Fincher and Hailey would be doing in 2024, Leacock had a pair of solutions. “Hopefully Fincher [has] stopped eating so great ensuing from he’s bought to ascertain his health a cramped bit bit extra,” he joked. “Hailey’s mild entering into worry and Fincher’s doing his very finest to preserve her out of danger’s device. That’s mild going to be the dynamic.”
Leacock would possibly perchance be open to the root of a future crossover with Martin’s Hailey coming into his recent world of the Story of the Lost Locket.
In Story of the Lost Locket, Leacock performs Sheriff Marcus, who assists a British antiques vendor named Amelia (Natasha Burnett) to in discovering an outdated locket talked about to carry appropriate adore to the proprietor.
Even supposing the recent film premieres on Saturday, April 13, Leacock and his costar Burnett, are both interested by one other installment. “I’d be down. Let’s lope. I’m all about it,” Leacock talked about of introducing Hailey to his recent character, Marcus, in a imaginable rom-com sequel.
Burnett, meanwhile, completely suggested Us that Story of the Lost Locket used to be in part created to present Leacock an different to faucet serve into his Hailey Dean Mysteries facet. (Burnett and Leacock catch played married couple Minnie and Joseph Canfield on When Calls the Heart since 2021.)
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“We had with out a doubt wished to earn one thing, first of all, the build I will also play British. That used to be a wide one,” Burnett talked about. “And [Viv] did delight in being his detective on the Hailey Dean Mysteries. So that used to be one thing that he wished to are trying and proceed on with.”
She added: “So we were attempting to search out a theory that could perhaps carry the two collectively, and we repeatedly knew that as mates between us, we many times catch the British English and American English variations. So we knew it is going to also carry a cramped bit bit of humor to the movie if that can also be place aside in there as smartly.”
Story of the Lost Locket premieres on Hallmark Channel Saturday, April 13, at 8 p.m. ET. Followers can also circulation it on Hallmark Movies Now.