Rachel Boston and Brendan Penny have both been making Hallmark Channel movies for the past decade, but they’re working together for the first time with 2025′s new Christmas film The More the Merrier.
The two actors actually bonded one year ago while setting sail on the first-ever Hallmark Christmas Cruise. They also just sailed again this month for the latest vacation!
“We met one year ago on the cruise and just cracked each other up,” Rachel told EntertainmentNow. “They paired us up in a lot of the different events they had on the boat, and then we got to make a Christmas movie.”
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Brendan joked about how the head of casting for Hallmark noticed their chemistry and decided to put them in a movie together.
“Let’s be honest, we kind of forced them to put us together. We just worked off of each other (in the onstage games) really, really well. We had a lot of laughs, and the audience really enjoyed it,” Brendan said. “The head of casting that was there was like, ‘Have you two ever worked together?’ And we were like, ‘No, but we should!’ I didn’t know if it was really going to happen, and then lucky for me and super lucky for Rachel, it did.”
The More the Merrier, airing on Friday (November 28) at 8pm on Hallmark Channel, is set in an emergency room.
Rachel opened up about the film during Hallmark’s Countdown to Christmas launch event last month in Nashville. We captured the video below!
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Source: justjared.com