I have been so busy with my new job that I hadn’t seen it, and I also like to avoid spoilers anyway. Oh yeah, that clip has been out there for a while. I first saw a preview on the Christmas preview special. I’ve seen trailers and previews and clips. I know the network has been promoting your movie Christmas in Vienna quite a bit. In fact, I came home and thought I would take a few weeks off and then be right back after it to film a couple more things, and then bang! COVID changed everything.īrennan Elliott, Sarah Drew Credit: ©2020 Crown Media United States LLC/Photographer: Petro Domenigg But we were lucky to get in and out and then come home. We know in January or February was about the time when people became aware of it. At least, according to what you see when you look at CNN, FOX, or MSNBC, or whatever you watch. We thought there must be a flu bug going around and thought nothing of it.Īnyway, push forward a couple of weeks, and we are just thanking the Lord that we’re all safe and healthy, but more importantly that myself or anybody else in the show never got COVID or got sick because we were right in the very early stages of when things were happening apparently. No one gave me that information or that diagnosis later on, but they were very sick. Now, I’m not really sure if it was COVID. I remember one of our execs and one of our producers, and I think even one of our line producers got very ill. I remember I came back after the Christmas break, and then we went back and finished our last couple of weeks of filming. I do remember…you know, COVID wasn’t even in the consciousness on the scale it is now except maybe behind closed doors. I don’t know if it was the first, but I do remember being in Europe in December and January and being around hundreds if not thousands of extras and people on the streets. I think it may have been the first Christmas movie filmed for this season. But how cool that you already had a Christmas movie filmed this year. Nobody knew what was going to happen this year. I know Hallmark didn’t know what was going to happen. So the good news is that we have a Christmas movie coming out. Maybe it was just the position where my phone was. Hey, Ruth, I’m having a hard time hearing you. But then by the second week of August, I decided, “Okay, I think this is going to be around a lot longer than normal, and we have to adapt to the new normal and get back to what we do best and just go back to work and try to be as safe as we can.” There were a few projects out there that came my way, and I was like, “If I go on a plane right now and do this, I don’t feel like my head is going to be in the right space.” And I think everybody’s in the same boat. And at the same time, when hundreds of people were dying every day in June, July and August, I decided it was best to take a beat and see what’s going on. I had one movie I was offered to do before this, but since my wife obviously has gone through illness over the past five or six years, I wanted to make sure we protected that. You’ve been on lockdown during this pandemic crisis. So you are finally getting back to acting now. My new job has been a blessing, but it’s kept me busy, and I love it. Um, yeah, especially over the past couple of months or so. Well, it’s been an unusual year, of course, with everything that’s happened. Last year, when we met and talked, was the last time, so it’s been over a year now. Well, I realized it had been such a long time since we talked. It’s become the new normal, and you gotta do it. Luckily, my family didn’t get any COVID, and so I know these are the stipulations that are in place. They have to make sure that you’re healthy when you go to set. Well, the way I look at it is this is something I think that this country–Canada–is taking precautions and being proactive. I’ve talked with a few people in quarantine, so I know it can be a bit tough.
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