\u2018Pretty Little Liars\u201d stars Lucy Hale and Ian Harding are back together for a holiday romance, \u201cThe 12 Dates of Christmas.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hale told PauseRewind\u2019s Elizabeth Stanton it was a \u201cdream come true\u201d for the duo to work together again.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think we’d always wanted to reconnect in some way in a different project, and we did it,\u201d she continued. \u201cI mean, this feel feels like the perfect project to reconnect with. It\u2019s very tonally, it’s very different from \u2018PLL.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
Hale added that though they technically had more time together on \u201cPretty Little Liars,\u201d for the movie it \u201cfelt like we could actually get more into a rhythm. We had like a bit more to play around with, and it was fun to have banter because we didn’t really get to have that on \u2018PLL.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
Harding agreed, saying, \u201cI’m so grateful and we love \u2018PLL,\u2019 but it was also like you know it’s TV, you really have to stick with the script because we’re thinking about like five episodes down the line and so there wasn’t much straying from the script and from the words whereas this you know, we you know kept in the scene, but we got to play and add our own stuff, and there was I think more of a back and forth that felt fun and new.\u201d<\/p>\n
In \u201cThe 12 Dates of Christmas,\u201d Hale plays Christina, a successful shop owner who has put dating by the wayside while focusing on her career. After pressure from her family to find a partner, she decides to go on 12 dates leading up to Christmas to find Mr. Right, even though Mr. Right (Harding\u2019s character) might be right in front of her.<\/p>\n
Christina\u2019s dates vary wildly from a mama\u2019s boy to a ventriloquist to a dog lover and everything in between, some of which Hale and Harding thought they could handle if they had to.<\/p>\n
\u201cI mean, I love my dogs. So, like, a guy that loves his dog a little too much, I’m like, there’s some things that’s a little bit creepy. But like, can you really love a dog too much?\u201d Hale joked. \u201cBut I think that like the ultimate dog lover, I could deal with that.\u201d<\/p>\n
Harding said, \u201cI think with the having one’s mother there, I think if I were on the receiving end of like the date is going well and then all of a sudden this person’s parent shows up, I think mom or dad it would change the dynamic a little bit. But I think you could probably survive that, and you could live with that, and be like, oh well, actually, this we killed two birds with one stone here. At least I know what I’m kind of getting into.\u201d<\/p>\n
Stream \u201cThe 12 Dates of Christmas\u201d on Hulu and Hulu on Disney+.<\/p>\n
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