Great American Family Star Danica McKellar Reveals What’s On Her Bookshelf This Holiday Season (Exclusive)
The actress opens up about her new book-inspired Christmas movie, two holiday premieres and the books she loves
Key Takeaways
- Danica McKellar stars in 2 new Great American Family Christmas movies this holiday season.
- Her movie ‘The Christmas Yes List’ is based on a bestselling novel by author Melissa Ferguson.
- McKellar shares her love of Karen Kingsbury books and reveals the 12 math books she's written.
Great American Family (GAF) star Danica McKellar is gearing up to star in not one, but two Christmas movies this winter, and one of them is based on a bestselling book by Melissa Ferguson. Even better news: We have an exclusive first look at the movie. In a recent conversation with Woman’s World, the actress revealed what fans can expect from both films, as well as the books on her bookshelf this holiday season. To learn more, keep scrolling!
Danica McKellar opens up about her two new Christmas movies
McKellar, age 51, stars in The Christmas Yes List, which is based on Ferguson’s novel of the same name. The story follows Chloe Hollis (McKellar) who is disappointed when she’s overlooked for a promotion at work, so she heads home to Maple Hills, West Virginia, for Christmas. There, she meets James Stone (Sam Page), a successful executive in town celebrating the holiday with his family. As the two spend more and more time together, sparks fly, and Chloe begins to wonder if the life she has is really the one she wants.
“I am so excited to be doing two Christmas movies for the first time ever, both on Great American Family Channel. And they are completely different from each other,” McKellar told us. “The first one, The Christmas Yes List, is a full-on comedy. It’s like the most romantic comedy of the rom-coms that I’ve done, I think, ever. It’s so fun. It premieres November 14th on Great American Family Channel. I’ll be live tweeting and also doing a live chat within Great American’s Instagram that you can subscribe to.”
McCellar’s second movie is The Greatest Christmas Gift. This one follows a music teacher named Emma Harper (McKellar) and her fiancé Caleb Bennett (Matthew Marsden) after an unexpected setback threatens to ruin their perfectly planned Christmas wedding.
“It’s a heartfelt, faith-forward drama. I play a music teacher whose love of my life has finally come home after being overseas, and we’re going to get married. He’s in the military, and things keep interfering with our wedding plans,” McKellar explains. “It’s just such a beautiful story of true love and community coming together—literally not a dry eye in the house at the end.”
Danica McKellar reveals what’s on her bookshelf
Since one of McKellar’s Christmas movies is based on a book we obviously had to ask her what’s on her bookshelf, and while she did admit that she’s “not a huge reader, partially because I just crammed so much into my life,” she did share a few recommendations.
“I’ve been known to pick up a Karen Kingsbury book here and there, and the problem is, when I read a book, nothing else happens in my life. Maybe it’s because I’m an actress, I’m not sure, but nothing else actually exists. Any priorities or goals I had just go out the window. I get sucked in too hard,” she adds.
While McKellar doesn’t have many fiction books on her shelves, they are piled with math books, which she wrote.
“I’ve got 12 of them—they’re all at McKellarMath.com. They make great Christmas presents. They’re all about teaching kids math, but in really fun ways,” the actress says. “I got a degree in math and took a break from acting for four years to write some of these books. I just wanted to bring my love of math and do something positive with it, beyond my own enjoyment of math. That’s what I love to do, and I’ve done it for about 20 years now.”
Be sure to catch Danica McKellar in The Christmas Yes List on Saturday, November 14 at 8/7c and The Greatest Christmas Gift on Sunday, November 29 at 8/7c on Great American Family.
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