The Curious Caterer franchise continues to increase with Curious Caterer: Foiled Plans. The Hallmark Thriller film is switching issues up in a serious manner with Foiled Plans, and there’s a critical Clue vibe as Goldy (Nikki DeLoach) takes a catering job on the mysterious Hyde Fortress. Goldy is tasked with cooking genuine medieval fare, however she finds herself trapped contained in the fortress with Tom (Andrew Walker) and different family members after a surprising homicide.
Under, DeLoach discusses the fourth Curious Caterer film, how there will likely be main developments for Goldy and Tom’s relationship, and what’s subsequent for her at Hallmark.
How does this newest thriller problem Goldy in a manner she hasn’t been earlier than?
Nikki DeLoach: Nicely, I’d simply say that this newest film is so totally different from all the opposite Curious Caterers that we’ve performed earlier than. For quantity 4, we wished to take them out of their world. Take them out of the police station and Goldy’s home and the whole lot and put them in a enjoyable setting. We actually wished to do one thing type of like Clue the place all people will get locked in a constructing and there are such a lot of pink herrings. Goldy and Tom, alongside Mason and Marla, have to determine who the assassin is to ensure that all people to get out of this fortress alive. So we got here up with the concept of doing a medieval ball. You’re type of transported into a unique world for Curious Caterer 4. From the second you entered the fortress, there’s the costumes after which the fortress itself, which was an precise actual fortress. I don’t know if it was the one which they utilized in X-Males when the children we’re in class. It’s the identical fortress that they used. What makes this particularly arduous for Goldy is she’s trapped on this constructing along with her daughter. It’s not simply that there’s a assassin on the unfastened. She is on this constructing along with her daughter and everybody she loves most. So it’s Olive, it’s Tom, it’s her greatest buddy Marla, it’s additionally her ex-husband. Everybody that she loves essentially the most is on this constructing, in order that implies that everybody’s lives are being threatened basically. That’s why the stakes for this one are actually heightened.
What does the dynamic seem like for Goldy and Tom on this film?
Due to the backdrop of this film, we actually wished to lean into the romance throughout the board. On the final film, I got here in and advised our producers and our executives, ‘We actually have to maneuver this romance ahead, or we’re going to listen to it from the followers.’ And we actually did by the tip of [Curious Caterer] 3. They wished their romance. They wished Goldy and Tom to get collectively sooner. So for this one, we have been actually centered on giving the viewers what they requested for. Goldy and Tom are tossed into this high-stakes scenario with a assassin on the unfastened, however there’s a really romantic setting. They’re wearing costume. The fortress is beautiful. There’s an air within the room of romance and something can occur. We wished that to be infused into all of the characters, so all of them discover romance, particularly on this film. With Goldy and Tom, we’re actually proud of the best way this one turned out as a result of we actually consider that we’re giving the viewers what they requested for.
That is your seventh time working with Andrew. What has it been like constructing a friendship and chemistry over a number of movies?
It’s not a secret that we love working collectively. It’s really easy with us. We’re so comparable in our actual life when it comes to little issues, proper? We like to work out, we like to eat wholesome, we attempt to be tremendous conscious simply in our private lives. However then in our skilled lives, there’s a manner that we wish to run a set. We wish everybody to really feel like their voice issues. There’s no such factor as a hierarchy on one in every of our motion pictures. One of the best thought wins, regardless of who it comes from. There’s no ego concerned. It’s such a lovely collaborative expertise with everybody. Now we have such nice actors. Now we have Riley Davis, Jaycie Dotin, and Lochlyn Monroe. Lochlyn will usually come as much as you and whisper somewhat thought in your ear of one thing enjoyable you might do, and also you hear as a result of he’s a legend and his concepts are nice. It’s only a actual collaborative vitality to a set that Andrew and I the place primary and quantity two. It’s actually necessary to us for each single crew member, each single individual on that set, to really feel appreciated, to really feel valued, and to even have enjoyable whereas making these. These motion pictures should not simple to make. You make a film in 15 days. For this particular Curious Caterer, we did it in 14 days. We had the most important solid ensemble solid we’ve ever had. It was a heavy elevate this particular film. All of us needed to come collectively and work collectively and simply get it performed. For us, it simply is such a pleasure to be on set collectively. It’s such a pleasure to particularly be capable to make this Curious Caterer film wheel. We’re so excited that the viewers retains displaying as much as watch it as a result of with out them and with out them tuning in, it doesn’t get to exist. We make these motion pictures for the viewers. So once they like it and once they get actually enthusiastic about it, it simply means the world.
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Do you’ve got plans to make one other Curious Caterer film?
Hear, I’m all the way down to make 27 of those. That’s the hope. Yeah, we truly are going to be making one other one this yr, which will likely be actually, actually, actually enjoyable.
There must be a Hannah Swensen and Curious Caterer crossover in some unspecified time in the future.
Truly, I’d love to try this along with her. I like Ali [Sweeney]. She’s so sensible. She’s fantastic. That’s a no brainer. That might be wonderful.
It’s the fifteenth yr of Countdown to Christmas. Will you be in one other Christmas film this yr?
I imply, I hope so. I haven’t performed my Christmas film but. I hope that the supply for one will are available in actually fairly quickly. It’s one thing that I look ahead to doing each single yr is a Christmas film. I imply, come on, they make folks so blissful. Truthfully, they really are a pleasure to do.
Do you’ve got any fond recollections of your first Christmas film for Hallmark?
Oh, I do. It was known as Christmas Land. Yeah. It was with Luke Macfarlane, who’s simply the yummiest and such actor. I like working with him a lot. It was like magic in a bottle. It was the final Christmas film of the yr to air. It. It did rather well. We did it in Utah. I liked the manufacturing firm. I set to work with particularly a producer named Brian Nolan. He ended up turning into buddy. He was such a pleasure to work with. The factor about Brian that was so wonderful, and I feel that is true for each film, the vitality of the highest trickles all the way down to everybody. He likes to have an excited, enjoyable, blissful set. So what I bear in mind is laughing rather a lot on that film. I bear in mind being so grateful that I get to work with Luke, who’s such an awesome actor. It was simply numerous pleasure on that one. Clearly, you always remember your first. Eight years later, I’m so grateful that I nonetheless get to make these motion pictures.
You’ve performed so many motion pictures for Hallmark. You’re shut to twenty movies!
It truly is all of the followers. We make these motion pictures for them. With out them, they don’t exist. To be completely trustworthy, one in every of my favourite issues that I get to do yearly is the Christmas conventions that we do as a result of we get to be in a neighborhood with the individuals who watch our motion pictures and listen to the tales of why they matter. I’ve been fortunate sufficient to do among the extra emotional motion pictures with The Present of Peace, Two Turtle Doves, after which clearly 5 Extra Minutes, which was about grief in addition to The Present of Peace. I used to be so honored to listen to folks sharing about people who they’ve misplaced. I misplaced my dad in 2021, so it meant rather a lot for me to have the ability to share my grief with our viewers and for them to have the chance to share their grief with me. The facility of story and its potential to connect with somebody at house and make them really feel like they’re not alone or to encourage them or simply to make them really feel like in the long run, the whole lot goes to be okay, it’s such a present to have the ability to do this. I really feel like that’s one thing that I’ve been actually privileged to have the ability to do at Hallmark, telling tales that actually connect with folks, particularly the tales about grief that assist folks get by means of the vacations, which are sometimes the toughest occasions after you lose somebody.
You’ve been creating, writing, and producing as effectively. Is any of that on the horizon this yr?
Oh, sure, sure, sure, sure. Truly, my writing companion and I’ve a thriller wheel known as True Justice. The primary film in that wheel aired in January of this yr, and it did rather well. We’re tremendous excited to have the ability to proceed with that one. It’s a couple of workforce of legislation college college students who come collectively to exonerate individuals who have been falsely convicted of crimes. It’s so necessary to inform these tales, and particularly to inform tales of redemption. That has been so enjoyable to develop and to write down. I additionally produced Household Historical past Mysteries, which is one other thriller wheel on Hallmark Thriller. Janel Parrish is the lead of it. It’s about generally reuniting households, bringing folks again to people who they misplaced alongside the best way, and determining the mysteries utilizing family tree. I can’t wait to deliver extra of these and develop extra of these motion pictures. Proper now, my writing companion and I are writing a Christmas film that will likely be for 2025. So numerous writing, numerous producing that I’m attending to do, and I like all of it. It’s all simply storytelling, which is what I like to do essentially the most. It’s so enjoyable.
Curious Caterer: Foiled Plans, April 26, 9/8c, Hallmark Thriller
