VIDEO EXCLUSIVE: Andie MacDowell & Sadie Laflamme-Snow Reveal Why ‘The Way Home’ Resonates With Fans

Andie MacDowell and Sadie Laflamme-Snow reflected on their experience acting in The Way Home, a drama series on the Hallmark Channel. The Way Home‘s second season premiered on January 21, 2024.

A time-travel drama, The Way Home takes place in the quaint rural town of Port Haven, where three resilient and self-reliant women from different generations come together under one roof. As their lives intertwine, their shared experience leads them on an unexpected and transformative path.

When asked why the show has resonated so strongly with fans, Laflamme-Snow told uInterview founder Erik Meers, “I think that people come to Hallmark to see something that has a lot of heart and that, you know, makes them feel like a part of the family, something to look forward to, something to bring them comfort.”

She continued, “And I think this show takes it even a step further because it’s challenging, it’s elevated, it’s expanding all of those things, and I think challenging our audience to come on quite the emotional journey…and then to know that in the end there’s going to be a message of hope and something to come back for and something to be excited about.”

MacDowell added, “It fulfills the DNA of Hallmark, what people go there for, but it also has this great way of telling a story through the pond that’s very exciting for people; I watch it and I’m excited about it. And I’m on it!”

Both actors felt that there was a lot more to their characters than initially meets the eye and expressed excitement at the audience gaining a deeper understanding of their motives through the second season.

MacDowell spoke on the specificity of her character’s loneliness.

“It’s not like she’s sitting around going ‘I’m so lonely, I’m so lonely,’ but I think you have to pick up on it in expressions even,” she said. “How she walks, you know, how she moves – compared to what she was when she was younger – and the pain that she carries, I think that that’s what is interesting about my character.”

Laflamme-Snow spoke of her character. “Alex really has this purpose that’s beyond what the average teenager might find themselves doing, this purpose and passion of like, putting her family back together, and getting to the bottom of family mysteries and secrets, and I think that’s really exciting—I like to imagine if I was a 16 year old watching this, I would feel like, ‘Yeah, 16-year-olds are really smart and passionate and adventurous and brave!’”

The Way Home season two can be viewed on The Hallmark Channel.