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Three Wise Men and a Baby EXCLUSIVE: An Unexpected Baby Arrives
Forget the MCU, the Hallmark Channel Universe is officially present and it's spreading Christmas cheer.
Tyler Hynes, Andrew Walker and Paul Campbell, three of the network's astir fashionable starring men, are teaming up for Three Wise Men and a Baby, which premieres Saturday, Nov. 19, and is 1 of 2022 Countdown to Christmas' astir anticipated releases.
Bucking the accustomed set-up of a romanticist narration being the main, well, hallmark of a Hallmark flick, the actors play a trio of childless siblings who find themselves taking attraction of an infant. Holiday hijinks, brotherly banter and a creation series ensue the years-in-the-making team-up of 3 of the network's favourite starring men. (And you tin get an exclusive sneak peek astatine Three Wise Men and a Baby successful the video above, which features Hynes interacting an an adorable baby. You're welcome, Internet!)
Fans were thrilled erstwhile Hynes and Walker made astonishment cameos successful each other's 2021 movies, the astir handsome mentation of Easter eggs we've ever received nether our tree. Campbell also got successful connected the crossover fun, not lone writing An Unexpected Christmas, Hynes' starring vehicle, but besides concisely popping up in The Nine Kittens of Christmas, which starred his predominant co-star and Three Wise Men and a Baby co-writer Kimberley Sustad.
After these appearances, Hynes, Walker and Campbell began thought for a task that would prima each 3 of them. But it turns retired they weren't the lone ones who noticed the audience's effect to their collaborations.
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"It conscionable truthful happened that I had a gathering with the caput of Hallmark and she said, 'We greenlit a movie with you and these 2 different guys,'" Hynes exclusively told E! News. "I said, 'How bash you cognize this? We haven't brought it to you yet.' And an enforcement had brought the aforesaid thought to her, truthful it was the gathering of each of america wanting to bash the aforesaid thing, which was nice. It was a truly casual process."
It was conscionable arsenic effortless for Hynes and Walker to represent siblings fixed that they are related done matrimony successful existent life. (Walker is joined to Hynes' cousin Cassandra Troy.) "Drew is similar my brother," Hynes said. "I emotion him dearly. I basal for him."
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And helium feels the aforesaid mode astir Campbell, though their relationship didn't precisely statesman with brotherly love.
"He claims that we person met earlier and that I was a dick," Hynes admitted with a laugh. "I don't remember. It was astatine a Hallmark enactment years earlier and it was astatine that infinitesimal successful the enactment erstwhile I realized, 'I request to permission present due to the fact that the whiskey has present kicked in.' I deliberation helium introduced himself, helium says, and I don't retrieve this. And helium was like, 'Well, that feline is benignant of a dick.'"
Rocky commencement aside, the duo yet bonded erstwhile they worked connected An Unexpected Christmas, which was conscionable a small sensation of what moving unneurotic connected Three Wise Men and a Baby would beryllium similar for Hynes.
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"To beryllium capable to beryllium with them and to person my friends, who I f--k with, contiguous their trade successful beforehand of maine is really, truly rewarding arsenic a person due to the fact that I truly bask it truthful much," Hynes explained. "I respect and respect them truthful overmuch and arsenic a fan, it's amusive to spot it up adjacent and past to openly pass astir ways to augment oregon alteration oregon enactment the scenes, conscionable reacting to what each different does. It's conscionable truthful unfastened and truthful fluid and truthful easy. Every time we were like, 'Gosh, can't it ever conscionable beryllium similar this?'"
And portion moving with his friends was arsenic amusive arsenic expected, the existent astonishment was however Katie and Kallie, the "ridiculously cute" twins who played the titular baby, impacted the ambiance connected set.
"They accidental don't enactment with babies oregon animals, but I don't agree," Hynes said. "I loved it thoroughly. They smelled similar happiness and joy. Having them with america each time changed the dynamic of the scenes. When they were there, it became thing else.
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Hynes' character, the tech-savvy and cynical Taylor, isn't precisely comfy astir the kid astatine the movie—see the exclusive clip above—he does stock 1 prime with his onscreen persona.
"I mean, I person a Pomeranian. This is wherever I'm peaking," Hynes said with a laugh. "This is arsenic overmuch arsenic I privation to bash close now. I person nieces and I emotion them to death. I bash emotion babies and I bash emotion children and I bash emotion treating them similar adults. The speech that Taylor has with the baby, it's not wholly unreflective of however I grip babies. I'm not rather arsenic inept, but I bash bask talking to them similar they are adults."
Since Hallmark announced their 2022 Countdown to Christmas lineup, the anticipation for Three Wise Men and a Baby has been Buddy the Elf-the-night-before-Santa-arrives-at-Gimbels-level high. And Hynes has steadily stoked that excitement with behind-the-scene photos and videos from set, though the 36-year-old histrion said they "are the extremity of the iceberg, to beryllium honest. There was a batch of clip during this movie wherever I wasn't posting oregon sharing. I truly wanted to bask it."
That being said, Hynes inactive talented the Internet with an aboriginal holiday treat erstwhile helium shared a TikTok video of the 3 leads rocking elf costumes on-set. One of the Hallmark starring men with the astir ardent followings—they proudly notation to themselves arsenic Hyneys—Hynes asked his fans to remix the slo-mo video and aboriginal shared his favorites.
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"I conscionable really, truly bask making radical blessed successful the littlest of ways and nevertheless I tin beryllium of work successful that regard, I effort to be," Hynes said. "It's precise bully to spot everybody respond to it the mode that they did. It's amusive and it's a two-way conversation. I emotion the information that I'm adjacent invited to that enactment due to the fact that it's genuinely their enactment and I'm conscionable a guest. It's spectacular."
The cheeky Instagram posts, Hynes' inclination to (gasp!) curse successful speech and the wide code of Three Wise Men and a Baby—a blend of bosom and wit with a flimsy borderline that would apt marque the 2012-era of Hallmark Channel clutch its pearls—is conscionable the latest illustration of the web taking chances with its longrunning Countdown to Christmas programming. And it's a modulation that Hynes, who joined the Hallmark household successful 2018, has embraced.
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"This has been portion of a speech for a portion present connected our ends and it takes clip for things to germinate and I deliberation it's truly starting to blossom," Hynes said. "Everything, from the cardinal creation to the post-production to the storylines, to the benignant of bravery arsenic acold arsenic inclusiveness and diversity. Also allowing america to bash things and leaving america to it, to immoderate degree."
One illustration Hynes pointed to was a tiny infinitesimal successful Three Wise Men and a Baby, successful which Walker's quality puts Hynes into a afloat nelson wrestling move, which the producers were initially acrophobic would beryllium chopped from of the movie.
"They felt similar it was rough-housing and it was excessively overmuch and it's, like, 'My goodness, this is not the absorption of the country truthful wherefore is it the absorption of our conversation?' It's those kinds of things wherever there's a spot wrong the network."
Ongoing enactment from the executives and the effect from fans has encouraged this "evolution" astatine Hallmark, which, Hynes said, has been "a precise beauteous happening to watch. Everyone is excited for what the aboriginal holds."
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As for his future, Hynes, who besides stars successful Hallmark Movies & Mysteries' Time For Him to Come Home for Christmas, is hoping to usage the "familiarity" he's established during his four-year tally with the fanbase to archer "diverse stories that are much inclusive...to assistance hopefully unfastened folks to lives and quality beings that they mightiness feel, astatine archetypal glance, that they don't individuality with and hopefully span that gap."
"So we tin bash what truly bully creation does," helium continued, "which is link america each and assistance successful providing empathy successful a mean that's sole occupation is to bash that. It does it amended than immoderate different form."
Three Wise Men and a Baby premieres Saturday, Nov. 19 astatine 8 p.m. connected Hallmark Channel and Time for Him to Come Home for Christmas premieres Saturday, Nov. 26 astatine 10 p.m. connected Hallmark Movies & Mysteries. Both movies volition past beryllium disposable to watercourse connected Peacock the pursuing day.
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