Jesse Bradford on Returning to ‘Glamorous’ Leading Role in New Christmas Movie (Exclusive)

jessi bradford is getting into the holiday spirit with his new holiday movie cam joyful kiss, which premiered November 24 on Hulu. The actor plays a sports-loving bartender named Danny, who ends up going to a hockey game with a widowed cheerleader named Jess, played by Scandal Star katie lowes🇧🇷 When their kiss on camera seems to be magical in more ways than one, sparks continue to fly between Danny and Jess.

hollywood life spoke EXCLUSIVELY with Jesse about taking on his role in happy kiss camera, which marks his return to the Christmas film genre. “The only other holiday-themed movie I’ve done is called Sweater, and I did when I was about 11 or so. If you blink, you’ll miss me. I have two scenes, and that was a long time ago. But this movie airs every year. I still get a residual check every Christmas for SweaterJess joked.

Jesse was attracted happy kiss camera as a whole. “I just thought he was cute and sweet and bubbly and funny and had a trick or a joke that I’ve never seen before with the kiss cam and everything,” Jesse said. “I found the character very down to earth, vulnerable, honest, a good guy, funny and charming in terms of the dialogues and stuff like that. It seemed like a great opportunity to play a very simple leading role, something I hadn’t done in a minute. I did a lot of support stuff. I just saw an opportunity to go deeper and try to create a really vulnerable and sympathetic character.”

Jesse and Katie’s chemistry comes naturally to the Hulu movie. The actors had never met before filming, but hit it off immediately. “I thought it was cool, and what I knew her the most actually was invent ana🇧🇷 I was very excited to hear his name associated with the project,” said Jesse. hollywood life🇧🇷 “It was definitely a huge push for me to want to be a part of this, and you couldn’t meet a better person. She’s just a barrel of monkeys, so sweet and kind and open.”

The couple had things in common right from the start. The fact that they were to play love interests on screen was a “good basis for doing it in real life. It’s like the door is open. We have to fall in love on camera, we might as well meet. We might as well put our cards on the table and be honest with each other about this, that, and the other and not hold back our personal experiences and how they’ve affected us. Go ahead, share your trauma, I think that’s the motto. I think it usually helps with what you get.”

OR you can come alum also pointed out that both he and his wife, Andrea Watrousseand Katie and her husband, Adam Shapiro, have children of the same age. They’re all “dating from the movie. It’s always fun to make friends.”