Del Landry could also be fighting Kat’s plan to maneuver in with Elliot on The Method House — and Andie MacDowell can definitely relate.
Throughout the Jan. 17 episode of the Hallmark Channel hit, Del (MacDowell) lastly revealed that she and Sam Bishop (Rob Stewart) have been courting for some time. Kat (Chyler Leigh) adopted that up along with her personal “excellent news” and revealed to her mother that she can be shifting in with Elliot (Evan Williams) — and so they had the approval of her daughter Alice (Sadie Laflamme-Snow). This information wasn’t precisely met with Del’s approval although.
“I do know from expertise, it is exhausting to lose your children like that,” MacDowell, 66, informed PEOPLE throughout an unique set go to. “You’re actually hooked up to them. It is exhausting to let your children fly generally, you need them there.”
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MacDowell is mother to a few kids along with her ex-husband Paul Qualley: son Justin, 38, who selected a life out of the highlight, and daughters Rainey Qualley, 35, and Margaret Qualley, 30, who’re each actresses.
“I’m unhappy,” MacDowell says of Kat’s plans to depart. “I do love her. I need her there.”
On the plus aspect, she’ll solely be throughout the road, and Alice will stay on the farm.
“[Del is] very accusatory about her making the selection to abandon her daughter, regardless that she’s going throughout the road,” MacDowell provides. “It is fascinating, as a result of she may secretly go, ‘Go on. I get her all to myself.’ There may be that part. She may have reacted that means. She may have mentioned, ‘Okay, I get my granddaughter all to myself.’ ”
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The star paused reflectively earlier than sharing a latest dialog with the present’s co-creator Marly Reed about why Kat and Del battle.
“First I went again to the unique thought, the unique idea of what occurred to them after Jacob disappeared and my lack of ability to maintain her and all of that. However I believe it is deeper than that,” she explains. “I believe they battle as a result of it is two alpha girls underneath the identical roof. And I do know what that appears like as a result of I’ve daughters. There’s a shift that it’s important to make once you allow them to be alpha. And that is actually exhausting. That isn’t a simple factor to do once you’ve been the alpha girl for a very long time.”
“It is actually painful to let your daughter be the boss. I believe it is an fascinating idea about these girls dwelling underneath the identical roof,” she continues. “It goes again to, why do I actually have a voice about her leaving?”
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Later, MacDowell says of Del, “She was so lonely for thus lengthy — and that is why she’s so afraid Kat and Alice are going to vanish.”
However as an actress, MacDowell has been reveling in the neighborhood spirit of constructing The Method House.
“We’re like a bunch of youngsters. We simply are. It is so childlike, our job, and enjoyable and inventive. It is a actually good job,” she says. “There’s one thing distinctive in regards to the consolation zone that we have now. I get so excited once I’m strolling onto set. And it is good at my age and after on a regular basis I have been doing this to have that feeling of pleasure. I am very acutely aware of it, so I acknowledge it. I attempt to share it with everyone, and inform everyone how fortunate we’re.”
The Method House airs Fridays at 9 p.m. ET/PT on Hallmark Channel and streams the subsequent day on Hallmark+.
