How Chyler Leigh Draws From Real Life Experiences In Hallmark's The Way Home

Despite being a mom for almost two decades, Hallmark's "The Way Home" is the first time that Chyler Leigh is able to use her experiences with motherhood in a role. Speaking with CinemaBlend, she shared how helpful it was that she has real-life experiences that she can use as a guide to making her scenes with her on-screen daughter, Sadie Laflamme-Snow, more convincing.

"It's funny, because I think it really is one of the only experiences that I've had playing a mom, and I've been a mom for so long in my life," she shared. "So I have a daughter that is Alice's age, and it's just been really cool to kind of draw upon my own experiences, just from different things going on in my own personal life." Leigh added that her lived experiences functioned as a "wellspring to draw upon," especially when it comes to the difficulties of navigating a "broken" mother-daughter relationship.

In her exclusive interview with The List, Leigh also shared that her favorite thing about the project is exploring the growth each character has. She said she loved witnessing the "evolution of how people learn and grow and become better versions of themselves, as they figure out how to work together as a family when you're in the midst of tragedy and banding together."