EXCLUSIVE VIDEO: Sarah Drew Shares The Inside Story Of Her New Series, ‘Mistletoe Murders’

Grey’s Anatomy actress Sarah Drew gave the inside story of her new series Mistletoe Murders in her new uInterview.

Mistletoe Murders is a 2024 Hallmark Christmas TV series with homicidal themes, originally based on a 2022 podcast series by the same name. 

Drew jumped in with an overview of how she initially approached the project. “So I had never heard the podcast, but as soon as I got the scripting and was offered the role, I listened to the first two episodes, and then when I agreed to do the show, I was like, ‘I’m not going to listen to anymore because I know that we’re making the TV show something other than what the podcast is,'” she told uInterview founder Erik Meers. “So I really wanted to be able to be in charge of shaping my own Emily Lane.”

Drew shared the nature of her character in relation to the show’s mystery themes. “So I play a character named Emily Lane who runs a Christmas shop that is open 12 months a year,” she mused. “She’s a little crazy-cuckoo for Christmas, she loves Christmas, and she seems like your everyday Hallmark romantic lead. Until someone dies,” she said. “And then all of a sudden she has these skills that she brings to the surface that she should not possess because she is determined to solve this crime.”

Drew further detailed, “And we get little breadcrumbs of what her life used to be, maybe she’s running from something, maybe she’s running to something, ‘Who is this woman?’ It’s a really really fun series…every two episodes a mystery is solved, and then there’s the through-line of the mystery of ‘Who is Emily Lane? Who is she?’ That plays throughout the whole series.”

As she reflected on a specific scene from the show that stuck with her, Drew remembered, “It’s the end of episode four, and it’s a beautiful moment where Emily reveals something about herself for the first time, and you begin to see her cracking open a little bit. It’s heartbreaking. Absolutely heartbreaking, and it was just a really special scene to shoot.”

She added, “I mean, I can’t give anything away, except that there’s so much about Emily—she’s got it all together, she’s so strong, she’s so brave, she’s got a hard edge, but then when she cracks open, you’re kind of turned to mush for her. And I love that moment in the show because it made me go – as Sarah Drew – ‘I want good things for Emily, I just want her to be OK.’”

Asked for her favorite behind-the-scenes moment, Drew couldn’t wait to share the memory. “I have the best one,” she recalled. “So it was like our second week shooting, I think, and we were out on the back lot…which doesn’t have any grounded electricity, so we’re all running off of generators. When we’re running off of generators, if there’s lightning, you have to shut production down because of electrocution issues – and we got shut down three times in one day. We were all just crammed in this diner, and we couldn’t do anything. We couldn’t move forward. We couldn’t shoot anything, but our director turned on a music mix, [we started] dancing…we were laughing so hard. It was like camp. It was like, ‘We’re at summer camp, and this is the best day ever.’ Even though we shut down –we had to take an insurance day, all this stuff – [it] still solidified us as a unit and a family.”

The first six episodes of Mistletoe Murders can be streamed on Hallmark+.

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