Photo courtesy of Lifetime
Television
veteran Alyssa Milano returns to the small screen again tonight for the
Lifetime Original Movie Sundays at Tiffany’s. Based on the bestselling novel by James Patterson, the telepic
tells the story of a hard-edged businesswoman who is preparing for her wedding —
only to be visited by her childhood imaginary friend.
In a recent conference call interview, we spoke with the former Who’s the Boss
star about what drew her
to the project. She explained, “I think the best thing about it is actually how
romantic it is. And it’s what I was first attracted to when I read the script.
It’s really a modern day fairy tale and it’s such an original concept which I
don’t think we see quite often any more.”
Milano was
also happy to be reunited with two actors she had worked with on past
projects. Ivan Sergei plays her fiancé in
Tiffany’s and had worked with her on Charmed
and she had filmed a TV pilot with Eric Winter, who plays her imaginary friend
in the Lifetime movie.
and she had filmed a TV pilot with Eric Winter, who plays her imaginary friend
in the Lifetime movie.
She told
us how much she enjoyed working with them again saying, “To have both of those
guys there was awesome — so much fun. We filmed in Toronto so we went to
Second City on our days off and saw improv and laughed. Anytime that you are
reconnected with people that you’ve worked with before, people that you admire
and respect, it’s always a great feeling… It’s a very small world anyway so
when you add on top of it this industry which is a very small industry you hope
that the people that you really care for come back around.”
And when
asked about her legendary co-star Stockard Channing, Milano seemed almost at a
loss for words. She finally told us, “She is exactly what you would hope
working with Stockard Channing would be like… I was always a huge fan of hers but
I’m even more so a fan after working with her. She is lovely and smart. Her
instincts are always dead on.”
But what
really drew Alyssa to the project was the complexity of her character, Jane
Claremont. “I think what I was attracted to when I read the script was that she
was hurt in her past and she, out of a protection mechanism… suppressed the
romantic that she was. And I
really liked that aspect of it because I find the most interesting characters
to play are the ones that are sort of flawed that you have to go through this
journey. And for me the character was really about her arc… was really about
that she was hardened off to love and then through magical circumstances she
learns to love wholly again and she softens.”
But Alyssa,
who married CAA Agent David Bugliari in 2009, couldn’t really relate to Jane’s attitude
about love. “I was never not a romantic in real life.”
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