So, I’m guessing that we’re going to be seeing different sides from both of you?
And it was exciting for me to live in a little bit of a lighter realm, right?
And it was really fun to play in a little bit of a lighter world.
And, of course, we still … Adam and I talked about this a lot.
It was really lovely.
Oh gosh, yeah.
I definitely grew up loving holiday movies and even the Lifetime and Hallmark movies every year.
It’s just something about the magic of the season.
The lightness, the message that that season represents, it transfixed me as a child.
That’s what it felt like for me.
It was just beautiful.
So for you, what was the experience like of recreating Christmas in the middle of the summer?
Yeah, that was a good challenge.
I felt like I was paying my dues.
They were like, “This is how it goes.”
Yeah, yep, yep, that’s soap.
So, just little things like that, that posed its own silly challenges.
It was really fun.
Did you get to have any soap snowball fights?
I mean, we definitely should have made that happen definitely should’ve made that happen.
Jessica Camacho loves watching Christmas movies
Are you a fan of these holiday movies?
I know people who just cannot get enough of them.
They just watch one after the other.
Yeah, I’m a fan.
I mean, I think that there’s something really … And so, I think it’s really beautiful.
I think some human beings need reminders to have faith, right?
To have faith in magic, and a reminder that sometimes you have to create your own magic.
And that’s what the holidays represent to me.
I was like, “What?
What do you mean?
You’ve been lying to me!”
And I realize that as I got older, it’s my parents creating that magic for me.
And that’s what we try and do for the people that we love, right?
That’s what the holidays are for me.
I want to give that magic back to the people that I love.
You know what I mean?
And so, I think that’s what resonates most deeply with me about Christmas movies.
Did you feel that when you were filming?
I mean, it’s really cool to think about.
I’m thinking back to when I was on “All Rise.”
Weren’t you the first ones to do that episode on Zoom?
I think so, yeah.
And now it’s par for the course, right?
I mean, it’s talk shows, it’s every genre of show and movie.
It’s such a norm now, but that was really new and very challenging and exciting.
Or was it just more like a show-must-go-on kind of a thing?
I think at the time it was like, “The show must go on.”
We wanted to finish it; we wanted to finish what we started.
That was our goal.
It’s like, “Well, let’s finish this thing, and what are we doing?
Okay, so we’re doing this, huh?
Well, here we go!”
It’s like the fear while experiencing the isolation.
And I’m really glad that it came out the way it did.
It touched a lot of people.
I was just honored to get to be a part of that.
We can do that too."
Yeah, yeah, amazing, which is beautiful.
I’m so ready for things to go back to normal, and they are little by little.
But what’s normal now?
But I think all we can continue to do is take it a step at a time.
I mean, there’s so many different experiences for so many reasons, and it honestly …
It was set aboard a submarine.
We were Navy crew members, and we had gone rogue on this island.
It was really cool.
I was working with Andre Braugher.
I was like, “I will not be serving tables at age 30.”
And it was just this really huge moment of realizing, “Wow, I’m so grateful.”
Yeah, it was a huge moment; it was surreal.
That moment, and that experience was really big.
“A Christmas Proposal” debuts on CBS on Sunday, December 12 at 8:30 p.m.
ET, 8 p.m. PT.
