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Katie Lee Biegel will admit that her novel Groundwell acquiring the Hallmark movie treatment is a “welcome surprise” considering the fact that she released the e-book all the way back in 2011. The film, premiering August 21 at 9 p.m. on Hallmark Motion pictures & Mysteries, stars Lacey Chabert and Ektor Rivera.
“When I first listened to that Hallmark needed to start off manufacturing on the motion picture, Lacey was the initially particular person that I imagined of,” Katie advised HollywoodLife Solely. “I definitely wished her for the part for the reason that I’m these a admirer of hers. I believe she’s so excellent in Hallmark videos. I think this is like her 32nd Hallmark motion picture. She’s just so great and so plausible, and I feel she’s a wonderful actress. Ektor definitely embodies Ben, and the two of them when you see them on display together they have great chemistry.”
The movie follows a chef named Emma who travels to Hawaii after a own and specialist setback. For the duration of her remain, she fulfills Ben, a handsome, reclusive surf instructor whose classes enable her to get back her footing.
The cooking exhibit host serves as an govt producer and also can make a cameo in the movie. “It was an unanticipated surprise,” Katie admitted. “I was so psyched when they questioned me to do a cameo. I play myself so it wasn’t a actual acting stretch. I was a minor nervous that I could not don’t forget my lines, but our director was fantastic. She created me really feel comfortable. I was likely my most anxious when I had to movie a scene with Lacey and just discuss to her a single-on-a single mainly because most of it was me judging a culinary levels of competition so I felt like, hey, I can do this. But when I had to give a little little bit that was not just criticizing meals I bought a small anxious.”
In the journey of taking Groundswell to the Tv display screen, adjustments have been manufactured. “It is quite distinctive in the film version than the e-book edition, but I form of liked that,” Katie mentioned. “I felt like my people have taken on a new mild and a new dimension. It is fun looking at how the screenwriter designs my unique story to make it acceptable for a Tv set motion picture. I just like it. When I went to Hawaii, it was all pinch-me times all working day very long of experience like I just cannot believe this is happening and seeing it at all.”
When The Kitchen area co-host viewed the film for the very first time, it introduced her to tears in the ideal way. “I cried. I was sobbing. I just felt like I could not think it definitely transpired,” Katie explained to HollywoodLife. “It was honestly a desire appear accurate, and when they do the final line of the movie — I won’t say what it is to spoil it for anyone — but it just built me burst into tears. I’m just blown absent by the entire point.”
The movie attributes a range of lovely food stuff dishes. Katie got the probability to reunite with a Prime Chef alum in Groundwell. “I talked with the writers about diverse dishes to characteristic and then my co-decide in the scenes of the culinary competitiveness Lee Anne Wong from Best Chef,” Katie revealed. “I know Lee Anne from many years ago when we had been on the initially year of Best Chef alongside one another. So when it was time to cast my choose, I quickly believed of Lee Anne considering the fact that she lives in Hawaii. So we place her in that role and Lee Anne actually stepped in and did a large amount of the foods styling for the motion picture. She’s such a talented stylist, so she stepped in and styled the dishes that were Lacey’s and manufactured them appear phenomenal.”
When observing her e-book occur to lifestyle on Television, Katie hopes that viewers consider absent that “you usually have the electric power inside of you. You just have to obtain it. It is normally there. Surfing is really a metaphor for that and mastering to get up on your possess to see you’ve obtained that leash that attaches your ankles to the board, so if you tumble off, you can pull on your own again up. I believe it’s definitely about how in some cases shedding everything that you thought you needed is how you obtain precisely what you require.”
Katie has revealed several cookbooks above the several years, but Groundswell remains her only fiction novel. She informed HollywoodLife that she “would enjoy to publish one more novel or a screenplay. Which is a little something that I seriously hope that I do down the line. I really feel like my mind cells are not fairly all there right after owning the toddler working around. I have not been equipped to come up with one more story but probably after she starts off faculty, I can write a novel once more.”
