The Cast Of The Way Home Talks Favorite Scenes and Time Travel In Season 2
In season 2 of Hallmark Channel’s hit series The Way Home, Kat is convinced she knows where her missing brother went. But as she works to bring him home, more family secrets are uncovered in the past. Pop Culture Planet’s Kristen Maldonado spoke with the cast at the New York City premiere.
Sadie Laflamme-Snow, who plays Alice, was excited about the challenge of picking up right where they left off at the end of season 1 when Kat feels she know where Jacob really is. “Just the creative challenge alone of pulling off going back to that precise moment was so cool in itself. We also built up this amazing momentum during season one, so to start right from there was just so much fun,” she told me. “It just keeps getting better and better and the pacing keeps getting more and more, so that was a huge highlight for me. It's such an important moment. People were really paying attention. You don't wanna leave any holes for people to poke in there.”
Chyler Leigh’s favorite scene had to be “the first journey into the 1800s” that happens at the end of the first episode of this new season. “That first coming up and realizing like, ‘Woah, where on Earth am I?’ ‘Cause I can’t give away too much, but something crazy happens. Just like when Alice surfaces the first time during season 1, it’s the same thing for Kat. Anytime you go in, you never know where you’re going to end up. It’s always a question because the pond takes you where you need to be. Maybe not necessarily where you want to be,” she shared. “Once she first emerges into that whole 1800s, it is a whole new ball game. It’s so exciting.”
Meanwhile, Evan Williams teases a “moving scene” that comes later in the season that was “very important for Elliot” and his development. “I'm thrilled that the writers [are] letting us all expand to explore ourselves through these characters. It's cool when the writers are paying attention to what we're doing in the performance,” he said. “We're leading them, they're leading us. It becomes a creative tango that the audience witnesses.”
Not only do the Landry women time travel to different decades, they almost travel to specific people, with Alice getting to meet her late grandfather and missing uncle in the 90s. But who would the cast go back to if they had an opportunity to travel through the magic of the pond? “I've never met either of my grandfathers, so there's a part of me that's always thought with the show that it would be really a beautiful opportunity to do that,” said LaFlamme-Snow. “I think that would mean a lot to me personally and it's a way that I connect to Alice.”
Andie MacDowell, who plays Del, also went the sentimental route. “My mother died when I was 23 so I would love to be able to go back and talk to my mother. That would be amazing if I could go back. Encourage her to take better care of herself for starters. She died of a heart attack and she had problems, but I wish I could go back to spend time with her,” she shared. “There's so many things it would be nice to be able to go back and fix, but we don't get to do that.”
Meanwhile Leigh thought it would be fun to “chill with the queen” in “royalty times” when she was “younger and feisty and really getting after it” and Williams would love to pick the brains of creatives like Sebastian Bach, Jim Morrison, or Oscar Wilde: “Can you imagine having like lunch with Oscar Wilde? If he would dane to have lunch with me.”
Hopefully in this second season we’ll learn more about how the pond works. “What's cool about the pond in the show is that it's almost like a character. It's not a portal. It actually has active discernments. Sometimes the pond lets the characters travel, sometimes it doesn't. It take you where you need to go. But you never really know and that's what keeps it exciting,” said Williams. His character Elliot seems to know more than he lets on, but Williams teases, “If I did know, I wouldn’t say anything.”
“We find out little bits and pieces. We're still understanding and trying to learn the rules of the pond because they seem to be changing. So, that being the case, it's kind of a constant mystery,” Leigh said, sharing a theory. “The pond, I don't believe will take you to the future. It only takes you back. But I'm not gonna guarantee anything.”
The Way Home season 2 premieres Sunday, January 21 on Hallmark Channel.
