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Spencer Grammer and Kelsey Grammer are teaming up for his or her first true onscreen collaboration in Lifetime’s The 12 Days of Christmas Eve. Spencer spoke EXCLUSIVELY with HollywoodLife concerning the vacation movie, and he or she mentioned it’s simply the “starting of many different initiatives down the road” for her and her father.
The 12 Days of Christmas Eve follows Brian Conway, a profitable businessman whose relationships with these round him have suffered. His relationship together with his daughter, Michelle, is strained, and he doesn’t have a significant connection together with his solely granddaughter. When Brian will get right into a automotive accident on Christmas Eve, Santa offers Brian 12 possibilities to re-do the day and restore the relationships in his life whereas discovering the true that means of Christmas.
Spencer revealed that working together with her father was a joyful expertise. “I feel it’s as a result of my father has been such an excellent affect in my life and actually taught me concerning the enterprise, and we’ve at all times been sort of a vaudevillian household,” Spencer mentioned. “My mom can also be a dancer and was a dancer on Broadway. That’s how my dad and mom met, so performing was at all times the place that was very easy. You allow your whole private stuff on the door and also you are available and you’re employed. It’s at all times been a sacred house, so we each deal with it that approach. It was tremendous enjoyable. We had a blast. We labored very well collectively.”
She added, “I feel that we’ve an excellent work ethic, and I’ve honed my craft so much over these years, so working with him was simply actually a pleasure. It was good to place all the opposite private stuff we could have had on the door after which are available and play father and daughter truly.”
Spencer admitted that, like Brian and Michelle, she and her dad “wrestle” typically. “I’m the firstborn, so I’ve seen every part,” the actress famous. “When you’re the firstborn you form of set the tone for everybody else in a bizarre approach, and your dad and mom are additionally figuring it out, too. So I feel it’s simply one of the vital difficult relationships for the youngsters in addition to the dad and mom since you’re each studying the right way to be a household for the primary time in a bizarre approach.”
The Greek alum identified that “household’s sophisticated for everyone. It was good that we introduced a few of that to the story as nicely, which I feel permits individuals to wish to change a few of their household dynamics once they watch the movie or understand that it’s a catharsis that it’s okay to wrestle typically and that you would be able to ultimately have forgiveness for each other and transfer by way of it and benefit from the spirit of Christmas collectively.”
Spencer and Kelsey have already spoken about doing one other movie collectively sooner or later. “There’s like an opportunity I would work on another issues with him, and we had been speaking about perhaps doing one other movie equally, but when I’ve discovered something on this enterprise it’s there’s loads of ‘it going to occur’ and loads of ‘it didn’t occur.’ It’s undoubtedly a risk, but additionally, you by no means know. I wish to put constructive concepts on the market, however I feel we in all probability will. We actually did have a good time working collectively. It was very easy and good. It might simply be a pleasant expertise to do it once more,” Spencer instructed HollywoodLife. The 12 Days of Christmas Eve will air November 26 at 8 p.m. on Lifetime.
