Jessy Schram is like us, swooning over his latest Hallmark leader, Dominique Sherwoodand who can blame him?
“We did a Zoom table read, and the second Dominic started playing the role, I was like, ‘Oh my God, I’m blushing,’” Schram, 39, exclusively said. Us every week to work with Sherwood, 35, on A romantic vacation suitepremieres Saturday, December 13.
The actress exclaimed, “We didn’t really need to work on chemistry, because he’s so good. He’s so good at being charming and using all that. And he’s so good at comedy.”
Schram explained that there is “a pretty large ensemble of really fun and talented actors”, one of whom is the Shadowhunters alum.
According to Schram, there’s “so much involved” in romantic comedy, including moving from a period piece to the present – but Sherwood made every day a blast.
“Literally every day I think I cried laughing. And we definitely ruined several takes,” she confessed. We. “So there was an alchemy there, a beautiful friendship and really fun exchanges between everyone. It was a kind of natural alchemy.”
A romantic vacation suite follows ghostwriter Sabrina Post (Schram) as she works on the memoir of famed art dealer Grayson Westcott while staying in a lavish hotel suite.
“What promises to be a perfect week turns complicated when Sabrina meets Ian Turner (Sherwood), a handsome British visitor, at the hotel bar,” the paper reads. “When Ian assumes that Sabrina is another wealthy hotel guest, she doesn’t correct him – a decision she doesn’t regret after learning that Ian is a member of the British aristocracy. Or so she thinks.”
When Sabrina’s wealthy guest character and Ian’s true identity as Lord Spencer Braxton’s personal secretary are revealed, the two must decide whether the white lies are deal breakers or a fun meet cute.
“You see sort of a disparity and how they’re on the same wavelength and completely on different pages at the same time, and when the reveal happens, how they both take that,” Schram explained. “But you have two people who are just trying to find their place, and they find it in each other. There’s just this little hiccup of ‘Wait, is he royal?’
Schram revealed that his character struggled with his own self-esteem while feeling like his new love interest might be from a completely different social class.
“She’s a very humble journalist who writes in New York, and here’s this guy [who appears to be royalty] and she can’t cross the ocean. It’s a fantasy world,” the actress mused. “And then you realize that’s not what he was raised in either.”
Schram added that “the series of white lies that no one intended” is at the heart of the story – and makes it not just a romance, but a comedy.
“There’s just a lot of miscommunication. And that’s really sweet,” she said. “There’s a lot of comedy in this one, and I’ve seen a little bit of it and it makes me really happy.”
Schram said We that unlike her serious character of Dr. Hannah Asher in Chicago Medits Hallmark heroine experiences magic and romance in all its glory. (During the current season Chicago MedHannah is pregnant, works as an obstetrician, and is in a co-parenting relationship with her platonic colleague, Dr. Dean Archer.)
“I remember going on set and it was one of those things where I was like, ‘Oh my God, I can just smile all the time,'” she revealed, noting that Doctors Hannah deals with “life and death situations” while Sabrina has to “go fall in love and see what that’s like, and have the magical element be there, because that’s what it really is.”
A romantic vacation suite premieres on Hallmark Channel on Saturday, December 13 at 8 p.m. ET.
