Tonight's Hallmark movie,
A Little Daytime Drama, is about a writer for a daytime soap trying to get her ex-boyfriend back on the soap as ratings crashed after he left.
The three main stars all have starred, in real life, in various daytime soap operas.
Jen Lilley -
Days of Our Lives, General Hospital
Ryan Paevey -
General Hospital
Linda Dano - 14 different soap roles!
Guiding Light, Another World, General Hospital, Days of Our Lives, One Life to Live, All My Children, Port Charles. As the World Turns
Yet, the 3 stars were not in the same soap at the same time. Interestingly, Ryan and Jen both left their soaps in the same year, 2018, when they started doing Hallmark movies more regularly.
On Location interviews. As a former
All My Children, One Life to Live and and
General Hospital watcher, this looks like a fun movie.
Fun fact: What Jen Lilley said about working on soaps:
"There is nothing more challenging than soap operas. Nothing.
Your entire life becomes a memorization game. Soap actors/actresses are memorizing an average of 30 pages each night, (my worst was 87 pages in one night of my own dialogue) which we only get one shot at nailing the very next day with one take, sometimes without even a proper camera blocking if you’re in the afternoon and out of time, and despite popular belief, there are no cue cards or teleprompters.
The stakes are always high, your emotions have to be available exactly when you need them and there are no do overs. It’s grueling but exhilarating. I love working in soaps."
Fun Fact: Ryan Paevey, in addition to being an actor, also has a successful side business making handmade JEWELRY!
Intricate jewelry.
It started out with Ryan making braided leather corded bracelets for himself.
General Hospital fans noticed them at Meet & Greets for the soap and wanted to buy them. It then turned into Ryan making and selling them. The braided leather then turned into braided metal, which then evolved into braiding and looping the metals around semi-precious stones and crystals.
Here are some of his pieces:
He used old coins as engravings to make these rings: