Earlier than The Way Home season finale served Kat and Elliot ‘shippers a twist that even left star Chyler Leigh “devastated,” Hallmark Channel’s time-traveling household drama gave viewers a swoon-worthy kiss in Episode 8.
Excessive off a visit to the previous that introduced excellent news about her dad and mom’ marriage, Leigh’s Kat rushed to her finest buddy Elliot within the current day to inform him what she realized. As Elliot wrapped her in his jacket and rubbed her arms for heat, Kat determined she was performed ready for him to kiss her and planted a passionate liplock on him, with the solar setting behind them.
“That was such a magical time, as a result of we actually had a 10-minute window to do this complete factor, to stage it, to prep it, as a result of we had been dropping gentle,” Leigh tells TVLine. “With that lovely sundown within the background, it was like, ‘That is essentially the most epic. You’ll be able to’t write this materials to have the ability to work with, so we’re going to benefit from it.’ So the entire thing, we did in like three takes. We went for it.”
Certainly, they did: The pair’s first kiss wasn’t a conventional Hallmark fast peck, adopted by a fadeout or a quick reduce to the subsequent scene. In truth, Kat and Elliot went in for one other kiss because the digital camera swirled round them.
“They had been saying like, ‘Hey, we’re pushing the boundaries on this present, so if you kiss, get it,’” Leigh shares with amusing. “We had been like, ‘OK, we’re gonna get it. I don’t know should you’re going to make use of all of it, however we’re gonna get it,’ they usually did.”
What made it to the display even shocked Leigh. “I used to be like, ‘Ooh, that’s hearth!’” the actress says. “I believe that’s form of racy for Hallmark, if I do say so myself.”
There is not any such factor as excellent timing, however Kat @chy_leigh and Elliot’s @evan_m_williams first kiss comes fairly darn shut! 🥰 #TheWayHome pic.twitter.com/B2spBHQRma
— The Means Dwelling (@TheWayHomeHC) March 13, 2023
Kat and Elliot’s intense kiss is simply one of many methods the collection is pushing boundaries for Hallmark Channel and upping the community’s storytelling recreation.
“For those who discuss to any of us, that was undoubtedly such an enormous a part of what we had been most enthusiastic about was the chance we have now to essentially take dangers,” says Leigh, who additionally serves as an government producer on the drama. Sometimes, the Hallmark viewers is aware of “what to anticipate once they’re watching [their] exhibits or they’re watching the flicks or whatnot, and what Hallmark is understood, classically, for is for folks to really feel form of safer and other people to know the setting that they’re strolling into.”
However The Means Dwelling permits for “this superb alternative… to essentially form of push it and shake it up so we are able to present folks which have been tuning in for thus lengthy what we’re able to,” Leigh continues. “And what we’ve been discovering is the response from all of the completely different age demographics has simply been wild, as a result of we’re bringing in a youthful viewers and in addition an sudden viewers.”
The Means Dwelling Season 1 is at the moment streaming on Peacock, Hallmark Motion pictures Now and Hallmark TV.
