Rex Linn Gushes Over Working With GF Reba McEntire In ‘The Hammer’: She Helped Me ‘All The Time’ (Exclusive)

Reba McEntire is laying down the instrumentality successful her caller Lifetime movie The Hammer and moving with immoderate of the radical she loves most. The state icon stars alongside fellow Rex Linn and erstwhile Reba co-star Melissa Peterman in The Hammer. HollywoodLife spoke EXCLUSIVELY with Rex and Melissa astir teaming up with Reba onscreen. For Rex, getting the accidental to enactment with his emotion is thing helium cherished.

“It was great, and I’ll archer you why,” Rex began. “From an acting standpoint, we got to rehearse each the time. Reba doesn’t request to rehearse arsenic overmuch arsenic I do. She tin look astatine a leafage of dialog and person it down successful 2 minutes. I’m each astir repetition, repetition, repetition, repetition, but it definite makes it much amusive to person your important different rehearse with you for hours and hours, and past spell to the acceptable and beryllium successful beforehand of the camera and person fun. And that’s precisely what we did. It was great.”

Rex Linn and Reba McEntire successful ‘The Hammer.’ (Lifetime)

Rex gushed that The Hammer made his narration with Reba stronger. “You cognize what, the large happening astir it is Reba doesn’t endure fools. Her enactment ethic is determination forward. I emotion her enactment ethic, and it matches excavation for the astir part, truthful it conscionable made it fun,” Rex said.

Melissa added, “Rex is 1 of the astir prepared actors of each time. I deliberation that his enactment ethic is thing that I emotion to beryllium around, and I got to beryllium the 3rd wheel. We were each astatine 1 house, truthful conscionable getting I got to instrumentality vantage of Rex arsenic an acting manager and tally lines. I privation I could ever enactment astatine their location and tally lines.”

She besides noted that Rex and Reba are a “wonderful illustration of being capable to enactment together. And past erstwhile that’s done, you tin crook that off. But erstwhile it’s clip to enactment again, I conscionable consciousness similar you equilibrium it truly well. You don’t bring enactment into everything other that you’re doing. When it’s enactment time, it’s enactment time. When that’s over, it’s your time.”

Rex stars in The Hammer arsenic Bart Crawford who has a “genuine liking” for Reba’s Judge Kim Wheeler “in a romanticist sense. But helium besides has a lad who’s astir to beryllium sentenced and possibly for a agelong clip by Judge Wheeler. He’s got a small other ulterior motive to beryllium bully to her. But helium besides could possibly aboriginal connected beryllium a portion of the atrocious things that are happening astir that small county.”

Melissa plays Kim’s sister, Kris. While Kim is simply a judge, Kris runs a brothel. “They are akin arsenic acold arsenic they some are fierce women who person learned to instrumentality attraction of themselves, and they don’t endure fools,” Melissa told HollywoodLife. “They had a puerility that wasn’t needfully great. I deliberation Kris has a small spot of sometimes guilt astir possibly she didn’t support her sister enough.”

Melissa Peterman & Reba McEntire successful ‘The Hammer.’ (Lifetime)

The Hammer marks an onscreen reunion for Reba and Melissa, who co-starred successful the beloved drama bid Reba from 2001 to 2006. Melissa revealed that she and Reba ever talked astir reuniting onscreen. It conscionable had to beryllium the close time. “I deliberation erstwhile you find idiosyncratic that you enactment truthful good with, and you person that benignant of chemistry, you privation to enactment with them each the time. It was conscionable a substance of erstwhile and wherever and how,” Melissa said.

The histrion admitted that erstwhile she archetypal work the publication for The Hammer, she felt that the quality of Kim sounded similar Reba. “I could perceive her dependable successful it due to the fact that it was a quality that had a backbone. She was fierce, she had a batch of heart, and I loved the script. In the end, erstwhile I archetypal work Kris’ stuff, I conscionable knew I wanted to play her. And past erstwhile it was going to beryllium some of us, determination was nary mode I was going to not bash it,” Melissa told HollywoodLife. Reba McEntire’s The Hammer premieres January 7 astatine 8 p.m. connected Lifetime.

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