Spencer Grammer opens up about working alongside her dad, Kelsey Grammer, of their new Lifetime film and the way that is only the start of their onscreen collaboration.
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 she or he stated it’s simply the “starting of many different tasks 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 along with his daughter, Michelle, is strained, and he doesn’t have a significant connection along with his solely granddaughter. When Brian will get right into a automotive accident on Christmas Eve, Santa offers Brian 12 probabilities 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 a fantastic affect in my life and actually taught me concerning the enterprise, and we’ve all the time been sort of a vaudevillian household,” Spencer stated. “My mother can be a dancer and was a dancer on Broadway. That’s how my dad and mom met, so performing was all the time the place that was very easy. You permit your entire private stuff on the door and also you are available and you're employed. It’s all the time been a sacred area, so we each deal with it that means. It was tremendous enjoyable. We had a blast. We labored rather well collectively.”
She added, “I feel that we have now work ethic, and I’ve honed my craft so much over these years, so working with him was simply really a pleasure. It was good to place all the opposite private stuff we might 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 “battle” typically. “I’m the firstborn, so I’ve seen the whole lot,” the actress famous. “If you end up the firstborn you form of set the tone for everybody else in a bizarre means, 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 means.”
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 folks to wish to change a few of their household dynamics once they watch the movie or notice that it’s a catharsis that it’s okay to battle typically and that you may finally have forgiveness for each other and transfer by means 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'd work on another issues with him, and we have been speaking about perhaps doing one other movie equally, but when I’ve realized 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 chance, but additionally, you by no means know. I prefer to put optimistic concepts on the market, however I feel we most likely 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 advised HollywoodLife. The 12 Days of Christmas Eve will air November 26 at 8 p.m. on Lifetime.