Alexa PenaVega Reveals How Leaving Her Family at Home Helped Her to ‘Dive’ Into Filming Hallmark’s ‘A Paris Proposal’
usmagazine.comSwitching it up! Alexa PenaVega revealed how working away from her family actually helped her transform into her A Paris Proposal character — despite missing them.“What was really cool about this specific project … I left my family to go make this movie.
And I never do that,” PenaVega, 34, exclusively told Us Weekly on Thursday, February 9, while promoting the Hallmark film. “We have, like, a very strict two-week rule [about working away].
But because this was filming out of the country and between Bulgaria and Paris … it just made more sense to allow the family to stay behind on that.”The Spy Kids actress — who shares children Ocean, 6, Kingston, 3, and Rio, 21 months, with husband Carlos PenaVega — admitted that it was “tough” and “really hard at first” to be apart from her loved ones for so long.That distance, however, ultimately led to Alexa being able to better connect with her costar Nick Bishop and the story they were telling for Hallmark.“It really gave me an opportunity to super dive in [and] think [about] this role, which was fun,” the Christmas Made to Order star told Us. “When we were done with set the cast would literally go out to dinner together and we’d literally go over our lines for the next day.
We’d talk about the scene and what we could add to it to kind of like make it a little bit more special or maybe a little more unique than Hallmark used to seeing.”Alexa continued: “I think that’s where it really shined.
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