Holland Roden is a proud member of Payments Mafia after filming Hallmark’s Vacation Landing: A Payments Love Story.
“I say I, probably, wasn’t the largest soccer fan previous to this film, however I’m completely — for all times — the largest Payments fan now,” Roden, 38, advised Decider at San Diego Comedian Con on Thursday, July 24. “They transformed this theater woman in a single day with the kindness that they present.”
The Teen Wolf alum gushed that the NFL gamers, the workers behind the scenes and “the individuals of Buffalo” as a complete received her over.
“I joke that it’s, like, this ongoing election in Buffalo due to the quantity of yard indicators and murals and memorabilia in eating places,” Roden mentioned of filming the Hallmark manufacturing in upstate New York. “It’s in contrast to any, sort of, soccer fandom I’ve ever seen — and I’m from Dallas, Texas, so we’ve bought an enormous one there (within the Cowboys).”
The NFL is teaming up with Hallmark for the second straight vacation season — however as a substitute of highlighting a Kansas Metropolis Chiefs love story, the Buffalo Payments will as a substitute get the rom-com therapy. Hallmark introduced in March that their “Countdown to Christmas” lineup for 2025 will embrace one other football-focused movie: Vacation Landing: A Payments Love (…)
Roden stars in Vacation Landing: A Payments Love Story, which can air through the community’s Countdown to Christmas lineup within the fall. The actor stars reverse Matthew Daddario and alongside Tony Danza, Tracy Pollan, Caroline Aaron and Steve shairly.
Whereas few particulars concerning the Vacation Landing movie have been revealed, a short abstract notes that the film facilities round longtime household pals and Buffalo Payments followers.
“Pediatric physician Morgan Quinn (Roden) and the Payments’ VP of Stadium Improvement Gabe DeLuca (Daddario) have all the time been shut pals, however Gabe has all the time held a torch for her — a truth apparent to their households (Pollan, Aaron, Schirripa) and everybody else who crosses their path,” a logline reads. “When Morgan learns from her Uncle Tommy (Danza) that somebody anonymously helped her household get by after he was drafted greater than 60 years in the past — and that he continues to obtain a Christmas reward annually to at the present time — she decides to seek out his benefactor and provides her uncle a Christmas he’ll all the time bear in mind.”
Hallmark’s vacation season appears to be getting an earlier and earlier begin yearly — and no, followers aren’t complaining. Vacation Landing: A Payments Love Story was the primary undertaking introduced in March, which can comply with within the footsteps of 2024’s Vacation Landing: A Chiefs Love Story by bringing one other NFL group into the Hallmark (…)
A Payments Love Story can even be peppered with spirited nods to the NFL group, together with cameos from coach Sean McDermott and athletes Ray Davis, Damar Hamlin, Dion Dawkins, Dawson Knox, Reid Ferguson, DeWayne Carter and Joshua Palmer. Roden and her costars additionally filmed contained in the Payments’ Highmark Stadium for true authenticity.
“We shot in Buffalo, New York, (and) I don’t assume that movie may have been replicated anyplace else,” Roden teased to Decider. “It’s not one thing we may have cheated.”
Vacation Landing: A Payments Love Story doesn’t but have a selected premiere date.