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Alert all Virgin River followers who’re #TeamBrady! In case you’ve already binged all of season 4 and are already hankering to your subsequent Brady repair in season 5, now we have some excellent news for you. To carry you over, Benjamin Hollingsworth is starring reverse Gray’s Anatomy’s Jaicy Elliot in a model new Hallmark film, Romance in Fashion.
Elliot performs an aspiring clothes designer who’s keen about making trend accessible for girls of all sizes and styles. Whereas she takes on further work as a contract seamstress for a high-profile trend journal, she meets dashingly good-looking Derek who’s stepping in to take the reins of the journal from his father. Ella and the “Prince of Publishing” rapidly type an alliance to shake issues up at The Look. Collectively, they assist the well-established model develop their definition of trend and for the primary time, make ladies of all sizes really feel welcome. And naturally, the sparks fly between them. It is a rom-com, in any case.
Bringing body-positivity to this fictional world is one thing that Hollingsworth and the entire forged sees as an essential mission. What this movie actually does is create the dialogue to assist make this occur in the actual world. Hollingsworth just lately spoke with Southern Residing and instructed us all about how the forged approached it.
“All of us actually have been behind the messaging of the film which is physique positivity and physique inclusivity within the trend business and illustration,” he mentioned. “So for us, there’s a little bit of an ethical obligation to make this movie in order that anybody on the market that was combating a few of these points would really feel not simply heard or seen. However possibly they may really feel a bit higher about themselves or be inspired to take a look at the mirror and see their true magnificence as an alternative of what society has instructed them to imagine.”
Hollingsworth additionally talked concerning the transformation his character Derek makes all through the story with the assistance of Ella. “When he first meets Ella, what he sees in her isn’t just her outward positivity but in addition her willpower and what’s lacking within the trend business which is the illustration of what’s the ‘each girl.’ And we be taught within the movie that the most typical dimension for an American girl is dimension 16 and but we solely see dimension 0, 2, and 4 in magazines so she’s preventing for this illustration to make its means into the style world and into this explicit trend magazines.” He goes on to elucidate how Derek feels that Ella’s plan isn’t solely the morally right option to go, however that there’s additionally good enterprise sense within the daring selection to incorporate plus dimension ladies within the journal. However he clearly learns extra about life itself in the best way Ella steps exterior the field.
“I believe Derrick’s impressed by that to type of do the identical. To step out from his father’s shadow and do one thing that’s completely different and help one thing that is not simply your typical enterprise strikes. So a variety of his selections within the film are influenced really by way of hers.” Romance in Fashion premieres on Hallmark Channel on August 13.
However after all we could not speak to the person who performs Brady with out making an attempt to get some secrets and techniques out of him about Virgin River season 5. “The fan response because the first season has been overwhelming, the success we have had which has simply been loopy. So, very grateful for that. However we’re again at it. We’re taking pictures season 5 proper now. And I can not let you know an excessive amount of about season 5 simply but however I’ll let you know that it will likely be the most effective season but. We do have a brand new present runner. There’s gonna be much more Brady in season 5. Issues get actually sizzling however not within the typical means that you’d think about with Brady. And yeah, it is gonna be a terrific season.”
Whereas Hollingsworth is Canadian, we came upon that his cinematic roots may be traced again to our neck of the woods! “My first movie that I shot in the US was simply north of Atlanta, Georgia, in a city referred to as Alpharetta Georgia. It was this film referred to as The Joneses. David Duchovny performed my father, Demi Moore performed my mother, and Amber Heard performed my sister,” he mentioned.
It was 2009 and Hollingsworth was in his early twenties on the time. He took full benefit of filming in Georgia as an opportunity to actually expertise the South. “On my weekend, they gave me this rental automobile and I’d simply exit on random street journeys round Georgia. And I even went so far as Savannah. I actually keep in mind that time as a result of I simply bought within the automobile and drove. Truthfully I did not know the place I used to be going, I simply went in a single path. Savannah was distinctive simply due to the historical past. I like locations with historical past and Savannah simply felt like dripping with historical past and tradition…I took my digital camera. I liked taking footage .”
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“I am going to at all times keep in mind that feeling of simply being someplace model new, by your self with no agenda, no locations to go or individuals to see. It was actually releasing and I bought to satisfy a variety of actually cool individuals in Savannah,” he mentioned.
He additionally had a real Southern proper of passage second throughout his time within the Atlanta space. He attended his first ever soccer recreation. “Demi took me as a result of I instructed her I might by no means seen a soccer recreation earlier than and he or she mentioned oh it’s important to see one dwell… She picked me up and we go and we drive underground and we get out and the proprietor of the Atlanta Falcons greets us and walks us by way of this tunnel and like immediately out onto the sector. So my first soccer recreation I watched on the sidelines with the proprietor of the Atlanta Falcons and Demi Moore,” Hollingsworth mentioned with a chuckle.
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“Atlanta supplied me with a variety of pinch myself moments of like I can not imagine that is taking place. Enjoyable within the south.”
Effectively Benjamin, we would welcome you again down this fashion anytime.