KELLI WILLIAMS AND MOM MAKE CHRISTMAS MAGIC TOGETHER
Actress Shannon Wilcox may be the real-life mother of "Medical Investigation" star Kelli
Williams. But that relationship didn't seem to count for much in Hollywood. "One time my
agent put me up to play Kelli's mom in something," Wilcox recalls. "[But] the casting director
said, 'Oh, no � Shannon is 100 percent wrong for this.'"
Wilcox finally gets to play her daughter's on-screen mom in the Hallmark Channel
Original holiday movie "A Boyfriend for Christmas." She came highly recommended - by the
star herself!
"It felt completely natural and then, at the same time, it was, 'Well, why are you
reacting like that?,'" Williams recalls. "There were times when Kelli's character would say, with
exasperation, 'Mother!,'" says Wilcox. "Every now and then, I got one of those disapproving
looks and I thought, 'I'm glad I haven't had too many of those looks to deal with in real life.'"
"A Boyfriend for Christmas" premieres Saturday, November 27 (9/8c) on Hallmark
Channel.
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