When The Means Dwelling‘s Kat walked down a staircase in a crimson gown to the sounds of Sixpence None The Richer’s “Kiss Me” in Episode 5, it was hardly the primary time her portrayer Chyler Leigh had paid homage to the enduring scene from the ’90s teen film traditional She’s All That.
Leigh tells TVLine that the producers of Hallmark Channel’s time-traveling household drama “positively knew” that the actress had already as soon as recreated the second during which Rachael Leigh Prepare dinner’s She’s All That character unveils her makeover whereas descending a flight of stairs to a surprised Freddie Prinze Jr. Leigh’s first tackle the scene occurred within the 2001 spoof Not One other Teen Film, reverse Chris Evans, underneath far more foolish circumstances. (As a substitute of simply tripping on the ultimate step like Prepare dinner, Leigh’s character dramatically crashed by means of the staircase.)
The Means Dwelling‘s model, nevertheless, was much more honest, with Kat strolling down to fulfill her greatest good friend Elliot (who’s pining for her) to go chaperone the highschool’s ’90s-themed dance. (Fittingly, Kat and her daughter Alice additionally time journey to 1999, when She’s All That was launched, all through the primary season.) To cap the proper homage, Kat stumbles on the finish of the staircase, identical to Prepare dinner’s Laney. Watch it under:
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When Leigh learn the script for the episode, “I used to be laughing so exhausting. I used to be like, ‘Oh, my God, you didn’t!’” the actress shares with amusing. “However they at all times had that second in thoughts from the very starting. From what Alex [Clarke] and Heather [Conkie], our showrunners, had advised me once I had the preliminary dialog, they had been saying, ‘After we bought this challenge, we at all times had you in thoughts. And so, after we wrote that, it was at all times form of a part of, like, a want for that to have the ability to occur.’”
However Leigh did have somewhat trepidation about stepping again into that beloved second: “I used to be like, ‘Wow, that is like 20-something years later. I really feel somewhat bit previous, however on the identical time, possibly I can nonetheless rock that crimson gown,’” Leigh recollects.
The actress was additionally in a position to make a much-needed trend tweak to the enduring scarlet outfit to account for the Canadian temperatures the place the sequence is shot.
“We had a number of conversations about how will we do that in a method that also honors the second, but additionally covers me up somewhat bit extra [for] after we do must go exterior and the way chilly it’s,” Leigh shares. So a cardigan was added for a later scene exterior the dance.
In the long run, “it was a lot enjoyable to do it, and even the little stumble on the backside with the footwear and whatnot, at the very least I didn’t go crashing by means of the staircase, which is cool!” Leigh provides with amusing.
The Means Dwelling Season 1 is at the moment streaming on Peacock, Hallmark Films Now and Hallmark TV.
