Jennifer Love Hewitt is kicking off her Hollywood career during the holiday season.
“The Holiday Junkie” star spoke with Fox News Digital about his long acting career, including his special cameo on “Boy Meets World.”
“It was a lot of fun… I liked Will a lot. He was the best boyfriend ever. He was very cute. And that cast was amazing,” Hewitt said of her memorable make out scene with Will Friedle, one of the show’s stars. Fridle played Corey’s brother, Ben Savage, on the show.
Friedel and Hewitt were dating in real life when she appeared in the season 5 episode, “And Then There Was Shawn”.
“I was very nervous because… it was a comedy, and I hadn’t really guested on a lot of things… I wanted to make her proud. I wanted not to be fired from my job and to do good work.
Hewitt played Jennifer Love “Fefi” Pfefferman in a 1998 episode, and the pair had a heavy make out scene that Friedel called “intense” and “uncomfortable”. “Pod Meets World” Podcast,
“I don’t remember it going that far. … It was literally like, ‘Wow, this is uncomfortable,'” Friddle said on the podcast, where the show’s stars Friddle, Danielle Fishel and Rider Strong rewatch and discuss the iconic series.
“It was very intense, and people have even said to me, ‘Oh, I didn’t realize you guys were together when I was a kid.’ So, it was just like, what the heck is going on? This is our most intense makeout. [had] It’s right there in the hallway as the show completes seven years. Then kissing her neck while she was trying to talk and all this, like we haven’t even told her our names yet. It’s intense.”
While Hewitt told Fox News Digital in detail about the “Boy Meets World” make out scene, she admitted she was more worried about what her daughters would think.
“We actually went into that make out, definitely,” he said. “My daughter watches ‘Girl Meets World’ right now, and I’m always afraid she’ll want to watch ‘Boy Meets World’… Then see me walking out on the bookshelf as Jennifer Love Pfefferman, and she’ll be like ‘Mom, it’s a cramp.’
Meanwhile, Hewitt’s daughters are following in their mom’s acting footsteps, as they were cast in the heartwarming Christmas movie, “The Holiday Junkie.”
The Lifetime movie, which was directed by Hewitt and is his first Christmas film, focuses on his character Andy, who runs a decorating and planning services company for the holidays.
Hewitt’s character spent the holidays during a difficult time as his mother passed away. Although her character faces a difficult time, her spirits are lifted when she finds an unexpected Christmas romance.
Hewitt’s mother passed away in real life, and “The Holiday Junkie” held sentimental value for the actress because it honored her late mother.
Hewitt’s on-screen romance is played by her real-life husband Brian Hollissey. The couple first met on the set of the Lifetime movie “Love Bites” and tied the knot in November 2013. they have three children; Autumn, 11, Atticus, 9, and Aidan, 3.
The “9-1-1” star admitted there were some challenges while working with her husband.
“For us, our biggest challenge was who would watch our children because we are in everything. So, we got really nervous about it,” Hewitt explained to Fox News Digital.
Hewitt said this helped him keep an eye on the children while working on the set. She said she feels grateful for her 11-year marriage with her husband.
“It’s not often you get paid to make love with your husband again. And I really did, that staring picture of me Watching him on the monitor, I actually found myself being like, ‘Wow, this is my job. This is what I have to do. I love this man.’ So I actually finished the film… more in love with her than when we started… It was a nice little gift, 11 years later.’
The “Ghost Whisperer” star told Fox News Digital that her 11-year-old daughter just got her Screen Actors Guild card, the same age that Hewitt got her card.
As for her horror film “I Know What You Did Last Summer,” her children had hilarious reactions to their mother’s role.
Hewitt said, laughing, “They liked it…they thought it was really cool that my character didn’t die.”
She said her daughter had said, ‘I’m very proud of you, mom… you’ve achieved this milestone.’
Hewitt also confessed that random people yell her iconic line from the film, “What are you waiting for, huh?” On him all the time.
He explained that fans would suddenly start yelling at him from across the street.
Hewitt has been acting since she was a child, and she told Fox News Digital what advice she would give her younger self.
“I was always worried,” she commented. “I was always worried… I had a lot of fun at work, and [thought] It was going to be my last or something like that…people were going to throw me out of Hollywood and not let me act anymore.
“Or that I was going to be an idiot… whatever. I was just always worried… I definitely enjoyed it and being there… having a good time and doing all these things. But I wasted a lot of time worrying. And I think I would just tell him, ‘Look, this is going to work. You’ll start getting older, and they’ll still let you work…that’s okay. You’re fine.'”
“The Holiday Junkie” premieres on Lifetime, Dec. 14.
