From potato commercial to Hallmark film: PEI girl makes it big in Ottawa
Morgan Saunders of P.E.I. is about to star within the Hallmark Christmas film Twas the Night time Earlier than Christmas, airing on Dec. 17.
Generally a star is born from essentially the most unlikely of locations.
That being stated, when a expertise comes out of Prince Edward Island (P.E.I.), it comes as no shock that their large break got here with the assistance of some potatoes.
Morgan Saunders, 10, made her performing debut alongside Canada’s smallest province’s most treasured tuber. First starring in a P.E.I. Potato Board industrial, Morgan is now enjoying Josie Avery within the Hallmark Christmas film Twas the Night time Earlier than Christmas, filmed right here in Ottawa.
Performing in one of the vital beloved vacation movie milieus wasn’t at all times the plan, in line with Morgan’s mom, Linda.
“We sort of fell into it by chance,” stated Linda, becoming a member of her daughter on The Sam Laprade Present. “A good friend despatched the primary audition for the P.E.I. potato industrial. Then she was requested again a couple of instances by the manufacturing firm to do a couple of extra, and a director was on set and noticed her and requested to be in a TV present. So all of it simply form of snowballed.”
Hallmark motion pictures, identified for his or her tacky story strains and economical budgets, are a number of the hottest movies across the holidays. In line with Nielsen ballot, 80 million folks tune in to look at not less than a couple of minutes of an indicator film throughout the vacation season.
Morgan hasn’t let the stardom get to her. She continues to be enthusiastic about seeing herself on the tv.
“I’m most likely going to freak out,” Morgan stated.
Morgan and Twas the Night time Earlier than Christmas could be seen on numerous stations beginning Dec. 17.
Take heed to the complete interview with Morgan and Linda Saunders on The Sam Laprade Present under.
