Kim Matula Teases Ghosts of Christmas All the time: It is Not What Anybody is Anticipating

Motion pictures with some supernatural component are all the time a deal with, and Ghosts of Christmas All the time performs like a modern-day model of A Christmas Carol.

Kim Matula stars as Katherine, a Ghost of Christmas Current, and he or she and the ghosts of Christmas Previous (Lori Tan Chinn) and Christmas Future (Reginald VelJohnson) are tasked with serving to Peter (Ian Harding) rediscover his Christmas spirit.

However this case is not like all of the others, and Katherine has to work further onerous making an attempt to determine why.

I had the prospect to leap on the telephone with Kim to speak in regards to the film, and you will discover our dialog, which has been edited for content material, under.

I’ve already had the chance to observe Ghosts of Christmas All the time, and I cherished it.

Nicely, thanks. I am so glad. I am excited to observe it when it airs on Sunday.

It is simply lovely. It is humorous. And it is transferring. I used to be laughing out loud at one level, after which I used to be tearing up later.

Excellent. And that is what I did after I was studying the script. So then which means we did our job.

How did you get entangled with it?

The script type of discovered me. My supervisor reached out and he or she stated, “Hey, you’ve got received a proposal to do that film. Would you like to try the script?” And I stated, “Sure, please.” And I learn it.

And such as you simply stated, I felt all of the issues that you just simply stated. I used to be laughing. I used to be so pleasantly stunned to see that there was some actually good comedy. After which I used to be crying studying this script.

That is so transferring. And it was type of a no brainer for me. I knew that I wished to be part of it.

Are you a fan of A Christmas Carol?

I’m a fan of Christmas Carols particularly. I just like the Invoice Murray Scrooge. I do know that one is just not beloved by all people, nevertheless it’s 1000% beloved by me. And I additionally am an avid watcher of the Muppet Christmas Carol. That was an enormous in my home rising up.

So what’s it prefer to get to be one of many three ghosts of Christmas Eve?

I by no means thought that this was a personality that I might get to play. What an obscure alternative to play this. I simply by no means thought that I might. And it was actually enjoyable. It was actually attention-grabbing.

I feel in the event you had given me a selection — previous, current, or future — I would not have picked current as a result of, in my head, I am like, “Oh, I get to do this on a regular basis. I am already within the current, however let’s do one thing extra attention-grabbing, previous or future.” However I’m so happy with what I received to play.

And I do know that this film was positively a distinct journey than what my character was used to. So possibly her abilities weren’t used the best way that she usually would. But it surely was actually enjoyable.

It was actually enjoyable, particularly attending to do all the lovable little transitions in numerous places. I am excited to see how these results end up within the last product.

They give the impression of being fairly good. They’ve a bit of whirring impact within the area the place they have been. After which, as they’re disappearing, there’s like a bit of flutter of some kind. That is actually cute.

That sounds proper. That sounds proper. Cool. I am excited to see it.

I used to be going to ask you which ones one you’ll have wished to play previous, current, or future. However is not it attention-grabbing that this story would not simply tie you to your position?

It’s extremely true. I get to play all types of various methods; I get to go to the previous.

She will get to play together with the opposite ghosts, which is like, it simply would not occur.

Yeah. It is the very best of each worlds. I get to be two ghosts, primarily.

Yeah, it was actually enjoyable.

It was actually enjoyable to do. My expectations have been met after I received to set. I used to be actually, actually completely satisfied.

Nicely, I used to be excited as a result of I all the time suppose films which have ghosts in them or angels or one thing from the previous or anyone from the longer term; they’re all the time simply actually enjoyable to me. So I all the time have excessive expectations. And this one, fortunately, met and exceeded my expectations, to be sincere.

I am so glad to listen to that. I am unable to wait to see it. I imply, we have been simply such foolish giggly whereas we have been taking pictures this. We simply had the very best time that I knew that it was going to be a challenge that I might be excited to observe. And I’m so excited to get to see it lastly.

When the ghosts first go see Peter, he is so excited. He is like, “Oh, it is the ghosts!” Had been these scenes enjoyable to movie? As a result of that is how I feel I might be. “Oh my gosh, it is simply my evening. What is going on to occur?”

I do know. As a result of clearly, this individual doesn’t want any assist discovering his Christmas spirit. Enjoying that basically type of childlike pleasure about can we now have this enjoyable journey,’ simply accepting that that is what’s taking place and going alongside for the trip. Yeah, it was actually, actually enjoyable.

And Ian and I received alongside so nicely in actual life. We’ve quite a lot of mutual associates, however we had by no means really met. So getting to satisfy lastly was seeing an outdated buddy. We received on so nicely, and I hope that that comes by as a result of, yeah, as I stated, we have been identical to giggly youngsters.

It actually comes by. You each appear actually pure with one another on display screen.

Our director Wealthy [Newey], was actually improbable in letting us mess around with the dialogue a bit of bit and letting us discover what got here naturally to us as actors and what we thought this character was pondering and feeling. We did not have to stay solely to the script.

I imply, we positively caught to the script, however he allow us to play and discover a bit of bit, which we by no means know in the event you’re going to have the ability to do this whenever you get to a set. And that was actually superior.

What sort of preparation do you must do to play a Ghost of Christmas Current?

Oh God. Nicely, I known as so many ghosts. [laughs] I did so many seances simply to get that ghostly perspective.

[laughs] Good for you!

Nicely, thanks. Thanks. I actually dabbled at midnight arts. [laughs] There wasn’t an entire lot of prep that I needed to do to be a ghost. I knew there was going to be some extra heartfelt scenes and a few humorous scenes. And I do know that I can do this.

And a lot of it’s assembly the opposite actors that you just’re attending to work with and seeing how they are going to play the half, after which assembly the director and seeing how he needs to shoot it. And all of it got here collectively. All of it got here collectively actually properly.

So how would you describe Katherine out of your perspective?

Oh, Katherine, she’s such a candy soul. She actually is. And I feel she would not have an entire lot of expectations for her. I imply, I say life, however she was lifeless. She had already carried out the dwelling a part of her life and accepted the position that she was taking part in now.

Now she is the Ghost of Christmas Current. And he or she loves her job. She has a extremely good time doing it. She has good associates and coworkers, and he or she has accepted this actuality. And so when this very attention-grabbing man exhibits up in her life, I simply do not suppose she was anticipating it.

So she actually accepts this nice shock in her life. And I feel that, generally, folks have a tough time accepting change or issues they weren’t anticipating. And he or she finally actually embraces it. And I really like that about her.

What do you want about this completely different spin on this basic story?

This isn’t what anybody is anticipating. I feel everybody expects a Christmas Carol to go as deliberate. We will present you your previous and your current and your future the place you are lifeless. After which you are going to really feel dangerous, and you will be taught to like once more. Your coronary heart will develop three sizes just like the Grinch, however this one would not take itself too significantly.

It could concentrate on itself and what the story thinks the story is meant to be. It could type of poke enjoyable at that, and it completely turns it on its head. The second that you just understand that this individual doesn’t want his Christmas spirit restored and that the Ghost of Christmas Current is now in a position to tag alongside, why would she be capable to tag alongside?

And I feel from the start that one thing goes to disclose itself. And I do know after I was studying the script, I used to be so curious to seek out out what that was.

So that you stated it was a extremely enjoyable shoot, and also you had quite a lot of room to maneuver inside the script. Did it really feel prefer it was going to be magical whilst you have been making it?

Yeah. I did suppose it was going to be magical. And I do not precisely know why, however I knew that. I do know the units have been so lovely. I knew that our costumes have been so lovely. And I feel whenever you’re having enjoyable with anyone that you’ve got by no means met earlier than, it is all the time of venture.

You go in to work on one thing new, and also you simply actually hope that you just perceive one another, that you just work in comparable methods, that your humorousness is analogous; you hope all this stuff, however you possibly can’t be sure that is all the time going to be the case.

And when it occurred, I imply, actually, that in and of itself feels magical. It actually does. And so having the ability to work alongside individuals who all wished the identical fantastic expertise, and we’re so giving as actors and as folks typically, they have been simply additionally pretty to spend time with.

And that makes you need to watch the ultimate product, that makes you need to do it once more. We’d joke, Ian and I, like we’re prepared for the sequel. We’ll signal on to do one other one simply because we have been having such a good time.

And sure, that’s magical whenever you get all the precise items collectively to create one thing, and it simply blooms. It is one thing nice.

Is that this your first Hallmark film?

Yeah, that is my first Hallmark film.

What film to start out with.

I agree. I give it some thought, and I am like, “Oh man, if I do one other one, how am I going to high it?” This one was simply so nice that you just hope the following one shall be as nicely.

Will you do extra, do you suppose?

I might like to. I’ve no plans to do one in the meanwhile, however I might like to.

And what are your favourite Christmas films? We already established which Christmas Carol you watch. What do you do along with your family and friends for Christmas? What films do you must watch that make it Christmas for you?

It is a Great Life. That was one rising up that we watched on a regular basis as a household. We all the time watched It is a Great Life. In order that one lives in a really nostalgic pocket of my mind, so it positively would not really feel like the vacations till I’ve watched it.

And Elf can be simply such a feel-good basic. Oh, and yet another. And The Polar Specific, that is a more moderen movie, clearly. It got here out within the final ten years or one thing. However I learn that e-book as a toddler on a regular basis. So when the film got here out, all I needed to do was watch the trailer, and I burst into tears like, “Oh my God, it is a film.”

And so something that basically makes me really feel nostalgic for childhood Christmas time. I am all in. I need it. I find it irresistible. So that is what we’re doing.

I do know. I am the identical means. And I am means past my years, at this level, to be infantile when a Christmas factor occurs, however I am unable to cease myself.

That is what the vacations do. You need to return to that childhood time when, I imply, God, you simply bear in mind counting down the months till it could lastly be Christmas time. And now it feels, as an grownup, life strikes so rapidly, and also you blink, and it is the vacations once more.

And you are like, wow, they did not simply do that. However having the ability to return and participate in these traditions that you just had whenever you have been a child, it brings again so many good reminiscences. And that’s what makes the vacations so particular.

What have been a few of your favourite vacation traditions?

Oh gosh. Making cutout cookies with my mother and my sister. Listening to the John Denver and the Muppets Christmas album was one other actually good one which we all the time did. And we used to drive round and have a look at Christmas lights, in fact, on a regular basis. We would all get within the automotive and have a look at Christmas lights.

We used to rely the angels the folks would put within the home windows. And in order that was all the time a factor. It was type of like an I spy sport. “Ooh, we discovered one other angel.” And if it was transferring, if it was an digital angel, that was even higher. You bought extra factors for locating these angels. So each time I see an angel in a window, I all the time return to these reminiscences.

And that matches very well along with your love for It is a Great Life.

I do know, each time a bell rings, an angel will get its wings, precisely.

You have received an entire factor going along with your Christmas. It is all interconnected. I prefer it. And a Great Life can be similar to the Christmas Carol.

Yeah, it’s. I imply, there is a ghost exhibiting him what his life may very well be. Yeah, completely. Completely. And I am an enormous decorator.

I really like the vacations. And that is one thing that I received from my dad and mom. My dad would all the time go all out on the surface of the home and my mother would go all out on the within of the home. And as me and my sister would all the time assist in any means we may.

And I actually carried that with me as an grownup. I simply find it irresistible. I really like adorning up the surface and yearly, arising with one thing new, me and my man, we made Christmas balls to hold from our tree within the entrance yard that we made out of rooster wire. And we wrapped it with Christmas lights, and we had a pulley system of a rock on an enormous extension wire.

And we pully them up onto the branches of the tree, and all of our neighbors will cease us and be like, “Wow. How did you make these? We love them.” And I really feel like that is my means of giving Christmas spirit to folks round me.

I am picturing you hovering over blueprints.

You are proper. [laughs] You aren’t improper.

Plotting the place the following decorations are going to go. And this 12 months, you’ve gotten spherical rooster wire balls. What are you able to do subsequent 12 months?

How will we high it?

That’s so good.

It is all the time about topping it for the following 12 months, the following season. We simply find it irresistible.

How early do you get began?

I like to start out adorning the week earlier than Thanksgiving or possibly two weeks earlier than Thanksgiving. I do not activate any of the lights, however we all the time exit of city to New York for Thanksgiving.

So after we get again to our house in California, I like to only be capable to activate the lights. And now Thanksgiving is over, and it is Christmas time. So I haven’t got to scramble to get all of it carried out earlier than December 1st. It is already put up, and I can simply flip the lights on.

Do you invite all people over so you possibly can have a lighting?

No, I do not, really. I do not actually do a Christmas Trip-style lighting ceremony.

You may take into consideration that. It could be a pleasant approach to spend a while with your mates.

It may very well be good. You are proper. It may very well be.

The thought you set into it.

It is true. I am so kind A that I considered having a basic tree trimming occasion the place my associates come over, and we might all enhance the Christmas tree collectively. However I do know that the second all of them go away, I might rearrange the ornaments. I might put some the place I need them as a result of I am so particular about the place they go.

You would wish a second tree.

Oh, completely.

Have your primary tree that may very well be yours, after which you might have one thing particular that everyone decorates. That means, you may not really feel like you must change them.

Yeah. It is a good factor to do with all of the ornaments that do not make it onto the primary tree. I all the time find yourself with quite a lot of ornaments that did not make the minimize and that might be good.

So what else is arising for you?

Oh my gosh. I am very open to something proper now. I haven’t got so much arising within the pipeline, however I am very excited for everybody to see this film.

Nicely, I am unable to wait so that you can do a second one. I am simply saying I like my Hallmark folks to go in and make magic for me on a regular basis. All of the seasons.

I do know they do not do Christmas sequels, however I might find it irresistible in the event that they did.

Have they ever carried out a Christmas sequel? I do not know.

I do not know that they’ve. I used to be speaking to certainly one of our producers; he was like, “Yeah, we do not actually do Christmas sequels.” And I stated, “Perhaps it’s best to rethink that.”

After you see Ghosts of Christmas All the time, you may be looking forward to a sequel, too. Welcome Kim to the Hallmark household whenever you tune in to Hallmark Channel on Sunday, October 30 at 8/7, to seek out certainly one of your new Christmas favorites!

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