'Equalizer' actress Liza Lapira talks filming locations for 'Must Love Christmas' in an unique interview with Distractify. Here's what she mentioned!
Liza Lapira as Natalie
Those searching for the Christmas spirit can find it in the fictional small the town of Cranberry Falls, N.Y.— which serves because the backdrop for Liza Lapira’s new made-for-TV holiday movie, Must Love Christmas. In it, viewers see a down-on-her-luck romance novelist learn the meaning of true love.
Although Must Love Christmas is about in the states, we discovered that it was in truth filmed in Vancouver.
Ahead of the film’s premiere on CBS, Liza sat down for an interview with Distractify where she shared what it was once like to play the main girl in the unconventional holiday film. Plus, she spilled unique behind-the-scenes information about the filming locations used for the film! Here’s what we discovered.
Liza Lapira as Natalie
Liza Lapira on being the main lady in ‘Must Love Christmas’: "I think about the kids that look like me."
Diversity in film isn’t simplest possible, it’s essential — and Liza is status at the forefront in the battle for representation.
Not many Christmas motion pictures have an Asian-American main girl on the helm, however consistent with Liza, Must Love Christmas is the beginning of a new technology. “I didn't see a lot of leads in some of these films that gave the look of me growing up,” Liza informed Distractify.
“I consider the children that seem like me and even the elders that appear to be me that by no means were given to see themselves. That's a privilege and a joy,” Liza added. “Subliminally, it tells them, it reinforces to them that they too are the center of their own story.”
Liza Lapira as Natalie
Where was ‘Must Love Christmas’ filmed? Liza Lapira dishes on filming locations!
Much to our marvel, Cranberry Falls is an actual position — it’s just not where Must Love Christmas used to be filmed. “I regarded it up,” she told us, “Because I stated this title is loopy.”
Liza printed that the filming places for Must Love Christmas stretched throughout British Columbia, regardless that, many of the film used to be filmed in Squamish, Vancouver.
“It used to be no longer iciness, it used to be in July,” Liza printed. “But you recognize the lushness of Vancouver and the Squamish countryside made for a great [thicket] for this beautiful New York the city.”
Born in Queens, N.Y., Liza is a self-described “city woman” at middle however she couldn’t stay from falling in love with the idyllic Canadian the city.
Neal Bledsoe as Nick and Liza Lapira as Natalie
“You simply see mountains for days. There's some stuff we got [in New York] — like Central Park — however it's not the same,” Liza explained. “It's simply the lush vegetables in all places, and the blue sky, and the lakes, there are such a large amount of our bodies of water.”
“I truly enjoyed waking up and taking a look out of my hotel room and just seeing the mountains and sky. It was once in point of fact beautiful," she continued. "I want to return to Squamish in truth.”
Many primary scenes in the film are set on the native town inn, which, IRL, is somebody’s home.
“It used to be someone's house," she revealed. "Somebody's very stunning house that was once, that was once already dressed up.”
“I imply, the set adorning team, after all, added and adorned and made it very Christmas," she gushed. "But it was already a old fashioned, lovely home — a number of personality. It was once an older home, there used to be quite a lot of love in it."
You can track into Must Love Christmas on Sunday, Dec. 11, at nine p.m. EST on Bravo.
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