Jesse Bradford Talks Stepping Back Into A ‘Charming’ Leading Man Role In New Holiday Movie (Exclusive)

Jesse Bradford is getting into the Christmas tone with his caller vacation movie Merry Kiss Cam, which premiered November 24 connected Hulu. The histrion stars arsenic a sports-loving bartender named Danny who winds up going connected a day to a hockey crippled with a widowed creator named Jess, played by Scandal prima Katie Lowes. When their articulator fastener connected the buss cam seems to beryllium magical successful much ways than one, sparks proceed to alert betwixt Danny and Jess.

Jesse Bradford successful ‘Merry Kiss Cam.’ (Hulu)

HollywoodLife spoke EXCLUSIVELY with Jesse astir taking connected his relation in Merry Kiss Cam, which marks his instrumentality to the Christmas movie genre. “The lone different Christmas holiday-themed movie I’ve ever done was called Prancer, and I did it erstwhile I was similar 11 years aged oregon something. If you blink, you’ll miss me. I person similar 2 scenes, and that was a agelong clip ago. But that movie plays each year. I inactive get a residual cheque each Christmas for Prancer,” Jesse quipped.

For Jesse, helium was drawn to Merry Kiss Cam arsenic a whole. “I conscionable thought it was cute and saccharine and light-hearted and amusive and benignant of had a gimmick oregon a drawback that I hadn’t truly seen earlier with the buss cam and everything,” Jesse said. “I thought the quality was conscionable truly straightforward, vulnerable, honest, a bully guy, funny, and charming successful his mode successful presumption of the dialog and stuff. It conscionable seemed similar a truly bully accidental to play a truly straightforward starring man-type role, thing I haven’t gotten to bash successful a minute. I’ve been doing a batch of supporting-type stuff. I conscionable saw the accidental to excavation successful and effort to marque a truly vulnerable, likable character.”

Jesse and Katie’s chemistry is effortless successful the Hulu film. The actors had ne'er met anterior to filming, but they deed it disconnected instantly. “I thought she was great, and the happening I knew her from the astir was really Inventing Anna. I was truly excited to perceive her sanction attached to the project,” Jesse told HollywoodLife. “It was decidedly a big, large nudge for maine to privation to beryllium a portion of it, and you couldn’t conscionable a nicer person. She’s conscionable a tube of monkeys and truly saccharine and benignant and open.”

Katie Lowes and Jesse Bradford successful ‘Merry Kiss Cam.’ (Hulu)

The brace had things successful communal close disconnected the bat. The information that they had to play onscreen emotion interests was a “nice instauration for you to bash it successful existent life. It’s like, the door’s wide open. We person to autumn successful emotion connected camera, we whitethorn arsenic good get to cognize each other. We whitethorn arsenic good enactment our cards connected the array and beryllium honorable with each different astir this, that, and the different and not clasp backmost connected our idiosyncratic experiences and however they’ve affected us. Go up and stock your trauma I deliberation that’s the motto. I deliberation it mostly helps what you extremity up with.”

The Bring It On alum besides noted that some helium and his wife, Andrea Watrouse, and Katie and her husband, Adam Shapiro, person kids astir the aforesaid age. They’ve each been “hanging retired since the movie. It’s ever amusive to marque a friend.”