Jack Wagner teases Melissa Gilbert’s ‘When Calls the Heart’ return

The flaws lines in the payment of television moved when it was revealed that Melissa Gilbert When calls the heart The character of season 12 had a romantic past with Jack Wagner’s judge Bill Avery, then kissed him. But just like that, after two episodes, the inspector of Gilbert, Georgie McGill, had disappeared.

With the production of season 13 starting in just a month, Wagner – which appeared as the old hard sheriff but tender since the first season of the show – tells Weekly entertainment The fact that one of the most exciting aspects of returning to Vancouver to shoot the long-time Western brand period this time is gathered with Gilbert.

Comparing Bill Avery with Nick Marone, the character on which he played The daring and the beautiful From 2003 to 2012 and will soon resume, Wagner says: “The difference to be able to do THE Daring and the beautifulReturning like Nick, are the diapers. This guy is completely a question of romance. And there’s really nothing romantic for a while When calls the heartExcept that Melissa Gilbert came last year and returns, which is great. “”

Wagner explains: “They have a background and a story, and I kissed it in the last episode last year. So that made a romance well for my character.”

The TV icon, known for its roles of Frisco Jones on General hospital And Dr. Peter Burns Melrose Placesaid it is “so grateful to have this race with the Hallmark channel on When calls the heart“But was tired of the drought period of Bill’s seasons.

Gilbert’s return to the fictitious Canadian mining city of Hope Valley is a welcome to Wagner, because he “gave me the opportunity to exercise something in myself that has been a little sleeping for some time,” he said.

Gilbert confirmed that she would hike in Hope Valley in a recent episode of Hey guy … The 90s called podcast.

“When I go to Vancouver on the set and I come back and it is this old town, I have the impression that I am here,” said Gilbert, making a gesture to the series of previous periods that made her a star – Small house on the meadow. “It is a strange and wonderful feeling, and I am very excited to go back. I go a little more to Vancouver a little more I think this year.”

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The actress has teased her entry into the When calls the universe of the heart has EW In February, in which she noted the amazing fact of identifying the fact that the co-developer and co-showrunner of the show, Michael Landon Jr., is the son of the late Michael Landon, his Costar, writer and director on Small house on the meadow.

But she saved the lion’s part of her enthusiasm for the relationship of her character with Wagner. “I would love to see what is going on with Bill and Georgie in the future, because he is left like a romantic cliffhanger,” she said.

“I also think that it is really great to portray the beginning of a romantic relationship with two people of our age. It is not because you are over 60 that you are dead.”