Jonathan Bennett has turn out to be one in all followers’ favourite Hallmark hunks over time, and with the rebranding of its streaming service Hallmark+, he’s continued to make his mark in a fair larger means. The 2025 Hallmark schedule will most certainly characteristic extra from the Imply Ladies actor, however it is going to admittedly be onerous to high his expertise in 2024. Bennett starred in a single film for the streamer this Christmas, Season’s Greetings from Cherry Lane, and I completely love the private connection it needed to his husband.
Whereas I usually attempt to not suppose too onerous whereas having fun with Hallmark’s vacation magic, Jonathan Bennett’s 2023 providing Christmas on Cherry Lane was a twisty story of three households who all ended up being related to at least one one other in the long run. That format was continued in a sequel for Hallmark+ a yr later, and Bennett defined to Individuals what made it “good”:
We received to do one thing tremendous particular [in 2024], which is, in my Hallmark Christmas film that got here out, Season’s Greetings from Cherry Lane, we truly received to make use of my husband’s Christmas tune because the tune of the film.
Season’s Greetings from Cherry Lane continues the story of Mike (Jonathan Bennett) and his husband Zian (Vincent Rodriguez III) after the adoption of their daughter, however in a very particular transfer, Bennett’s real-life husband Jaymes Vaughan was the one singing throughout his character’s massive second. It was very significant for the actor, who continued:
There was that second when you’re watching your Hallmark film that you just’re starring in, after which your husband’s voice is available in because the soundtrack. I simply thought it was such a neat second, and it made me need to have extra moments like that the place we sort of intertwine our artwork collectively. There’s actually no extra good Hallmark second than your husband’s tune taking part in throughout the emotional a part of your Hallmark film.
It definitely looks as if that have made being coated in tinsel for half the yr price it! Jonathan Bennett actually deserved to have his personal magical Hallmark second like that, for my part, given how he’s helped the community enhance its inclusivity over time and even starred in its first film to characteristic homosexual leads — The Vacation Sitter — in 2022.
In 2024 he continued to break down LGBTQ+ stereotypes in The Groomsmen trilogy, and whereas I’m actually trying ahead to what else we’d get from this Marriage ceremony Veil-esque trio of films, it is going to most likely be onerous to high the particular second Jonathan Bennett received to have along with his husband from the previous yr.
Can something arising in 2025 do higher? I truly suppose a Imply Ladies vacation film reunion with Jonathan Bennett, Lacey Chabert and Lindsay Lohan might high that, at the least within the eyes of followers of the long-lasting teen film. It was one of many finest films of the 2000s in spite of everything. Keep tuned!