Rex Linn Praises Working With Girlfriend Reba McEntire On ‘The Hammer’: She Helped Me ‘All The Time’ (Exclusive)

Reba McEntire is calling the shots in his new Lifetime movie The hammer and work with some of the people he loves the most. The country’s icon plays with her boyfriend. Rex Linn and ex reba co-star melissa petermann inside The hammer. hollywood life spoke EXCLUSIVELY with Rex and Melissa about collaborating with Reba on screen. For Rex, having the chance to work with his love is something he loved.

“It was amazing, and I’ll tell you why,” Rex began. “Acting-wise, we have to rehearse all the time. Reba doesn’t have to try as hard as I do. You can look at a page of dialogue and be done with it in two minutes. I like repetition, repetition, repetition, repetition, but it sure makes it more fun to have your partner rehearse with you for hours on end, and then you go on set, get in front of the camera and have fun. And that’s exactly what we did. It was great.”

rex said this The hammer strengthened his relationship with Reba. “Did you know? The good thing is, Reba doesn’t tolerate fools. Her work ethic is to keep going. I love her work ethic and it matches mine for the most part, so she made it fun,” said Rex .

Melissa added, “Rex is one of the most accomplished actors of all time. I think his work ethic is something I love to be around, and I have to be the third wheel. We were all in one house, so just to survive, I chose Rex as my drama and running coach. I wish I could always stay at his house and stand in line.

He also noted that Rex and Reba are a “wonderful example of being able to work together. And then when you’re done, you can turn it off. But when it’s time to get back to work, it seems to me that you balance everything very well. You don’t add work to everything you do. When it’s work time, it’s work time. When all this is over, it will be your turn.”

stella rex inside The hammer like Bart Crawford, who has a “genuine sympathy” for Judge Reba Kim Wheeler “in a romantic sense. But he also has a son who is about to be sentenced, and possibly for a long time, by Judge Wheeler. He has an extra ulterior motive for being nice to her. But he could also, from the very beginning, be a part of the bad things that are happening in that little county.

Melissa plays Kim’s sister Kris. While Kim is a judge, Kris runs a brothel. “They look alike because they are brave women who have learned to take care of themselves and don’t tolerate fools,” said Melissa. Hollywood life. “They had childhoods that weren’t necessarily good. I think Kris feels a little guilty sometimes that she didn’t protect her sister enough about her.”

The hammer hosts an on-screen reunion for Reba and Melissa, who starred in the beloved comedy series reba from 2001 to 2006. Melissa revealed that she and Reba had always talked about their on-screen encounter. It just had to be the right time. “I think when you find someone you work with so well and you have that kind of chemistry, you want to work with them all the time. It was just a matter of when, where and how,” Melissa said.

The actress admitted that when she first read the script of The hammer, he felt Kim’s character sounded like Reba. “I could hear her voice because she was a character that had a backbone. She was fierce, she had a lot of heart and I loved the script. Finally, when I first read Kris’ stuff, I knew I wanted to play her. And then when it was the two of us, there was no way we wouldn’t,” Melissa said. Hollywood life. Reba McEntire’s hammer premieres January 7 at 8:00 pm on Lifetime.

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