Hallmark Meet My Valentine 2015 New movie full HD Hallmark channel 2015, Hallmark Meet My Valentine 2015 New movie full HD Hallmark channel 2015, Hallmark Meet My Valentine 2015 New movie full HD Hallmark channel 2015, Hallmark Channel kicks off its 2015 film slate Saturday night with Surprised By Love, a fun and charming story about two high school friends who reconnect in their 30s, prompting them to re-evaluate their life choices. The movie is headlined by One Tree Hill‘s Hilarie Burton and Paul Campbell, who you may recognize as one of the stars of Window Wonderland if you’ve just binge-watched Christmas movies, or from his stints on Battlestar Galactica or the Knight Rider reboot. I chatted with Campbell on New Year’s Eve about the new film and his Canadian series Spun Out. Surprised By Love was written by Neal and Tippi Dobrofsky, who also wrote Window Wonderland, and that history didn’t hurt. “I don’t know how much say they have in casting, but I know they recommended me for the film. The producer, Jack Grossbart, watched Window Wonderland and liked me and thought I’d be suitable for this as well,” he says. “I was offered the [role, which is] the most wonderful way to get work. It’s always a nice surprise when you get offered work out of the blue. The Hallmark movies are so fast and so fun. Every single day is like an adult playground. You go and crack jokes and mess around with your friends and there happen to be a couple of cameras filming while you do it. They’re some of the favorite films of my career.” He and Burton have fantastic chemistry, and that was just fortuitous casting as the duo only met for the first time the day before shooting started. “There are two things at work when you have a male and female lead. Often as a professional actor, you’ve created these relationships onscreen enough that you know the outline or shape of the relationship that you can fake a lot of it,” he explains. “There is something to be said for getting along really well as people. And we got along famously. It was very easy and natural between the two of us. We have similar senses of humor and are very silly…and got along great from the get go, which helped build the relationship onscreen.” “I think what you see, and what adds the extra 10 or 15 percent, is when the laughter is genuine. In the scene where we’re walking down the street and Josie is telling Gridley about the teacher in the panda suit, she was improvising on the spot and I was laughing hysterically. Every take, she did something different, and I had no idea what was coming. We thought that would be unusable because we were laughing too hard.” Photo Credit: Eike Schroter/Crown Media United States LLC Photo Credit: Eike Schroter/Crown Media United States LLC Working with comedy legend Tim Conway was also a joy. “It was extraordinary. Just the opportunity to be in a room with that man and observe him working his craft is such an honor. Without a doubt, he’s one of the funniest humans I’ve met in my life. I would qualify him as a certified genius…a comedic genius,” he says. “They probably have an entire film’s worth of footage of him just reacting to scenes. They would just turn the camera on him. I’ve never seen in my entire career…a human being possess a greater ability to take a single object and turn into an entire scene without saying a word.” Campbell recalls that during a party scene toward the end of the film, Conway had everybody–cast and crew–rolling to the point that he was sure the footage was useless. “You can probably see the camera shaking,” he says. “We were in hysterics. I have never laughed that hard in my entire life. There was chortling laughter coming from the video monitors. He did another take that was completely ridiculous.” “He did stuff that was so in character [but also] outrageously funny. I am the worst for quirksing in a scene [and] breaking out laughing. In the first two passes when I give him the big mouth bass, I ruined the takes because I was laughing hysterically the entire time at the stuff he was doing.” Campbell wasn’t shy about asking Conway to share some of his stories. “He was such a lovely, lovely man to work with in general. He was so kind, and talked to everyone. What a wonderful experience. I grilled him on Carol Burnett and the Apple Dumpling Game. He was so gracious. I think every single day he had one or two people sitting down with him and asking him questions. He would talk forever. He loved talking about it.” His favorite moment in the film didn’t make it onscreen, but was a personal high. “The first scene that I had with Tim….there’s a self-awareness that I grew up watching this man. He’s a comedy legend…a living legend and I’m sitting in front of him, doing a

• published: 11 Mar 2015
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