Jennifer Love Hewitt is launching her Hollywood career during the holiday season.
The star of “The Holiday Junkie” reflects with Fox News Digital about her long acting career. Including a special appearance on “Boy Meets World”
“It was so much fun… I love Will. He’s like the best boyfriend ever. He’s so sweet and that actor is amazing,” Hewitt said of her memorable date scene. With Will Friedl, one of the stars of the show. Friedl plays Ben Savage, Cory’s younger brother, on the show.
Friedl and Hewitt were dating in real life when she appeared in the season 5 episode “And Then There Was Shawn.”
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Jennifer Love Hewitt, 45, starred in and directed her first Christmas movie, “The Holiday Junkie.” (Chris Haston/WBTV via Getty Images)
“I feel very nervous because… It’s funny. And I haven’t had many guest appearances… I want to make him proud. I want to be liked, not get fired, and do good work.”
Hewitt played Jennifer Love “Feffy” Pfefferman in a 1998 episode, and the pair had heavy makeup scenes that Friedl called “intense” and “awkward” in the drama. Podcast “Pod Meets World”–
Jennifer Love Hewitt said she feared her daughter would see the scene. Her “super intense” appearance from her guest appearance on “Boy Meets World” (ABC Photo Gallery/Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty Images)
“I don’t remember it going that far … It was like, ‘Wow, this is really uncomfortable,’” Friedl said on the podcast, which also features stars Friedel, Danielle Fishel and Ride. Or Strong Watch again and discuss this famous series.
“It was very intense. And I’ve had people say to me like, ‘Oh, when I was a kid. I didn’t know you guys were together.’ It’s like what happened? That’s the most intense makeup we’ve had in seven years of the show. Then kissed her neck as she tried to speak and all of this like we didn’t. We haven’t said our names yet. It was very intense.”
“We really did it that way.”
As Hewitt detailed the “Boy Meets World” set for Fox News Digital, she admitted that she was more worried about what her daughter would think.
Jennifer Love Hewitt and Will Friedle in “Boy Meets World” in 1998. (ABC Photo Gallery/Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty Images)
“We really did,” she added. “My daughter is watching ‘Girl Meets World’ right now, and I’m always afraid she’ll want to watch ‘Boy Meets World’ … Then see me as Jennifer Love Fefferman hanging out on the bookshelf and she’ll… Go, be like, ‘Mom, this is really flattering.'”
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Meanwhile Hewitt’s daughter is following in her mother’s acting footsteps. When they took part in the heartwarming Christmas movie “The Holiday Junkie.”
The Lifetime movie, which was directed by Hewitt and was her first Christmas movie. It focuses on her character Andie, who runs a holiday decorating and planning service company.
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Hewitt’s character spends the holidays during a difficult time when her mother dies. Her character, though, faced difficult times. But her spirits are lifted when she meets an unexpected Christmas love.
Hewitt’s mother died in real life, and “The Holiday Junkie” holds sentimental value to the actress as it pays tribute to her late mother.
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Hewitt’s on-screen love interest is played by her real-life husband, Brian Hallisey. The pair first met on the set of Lifetime’s Love Bites and married in November 2013. The couple have three children together: Autumn, 11, Atticus, 9, and Aidan, 3.
The “9-1-1” star confessed that there were some challenges while working with her husband.
“For us, our biggest challenge is who will watch our kids, because we are in everything. So we were really alarmed about that,” Hewitt explained to Fox News Digital.
Hewitt said they had help watching the children. While they were working on the set She added that she is grateful for 11 years of marriage to her husband.
“It’s not often that you get paid to fall in love with your husband again. And I really did. The picture I’m staring at Looking at him on the monitor I found myself like, ‘Wow, this is my job.’ This is what I have to do. I love this man So I actually finished this movie… I love him more than when we started… It was a nice little gift 11 years ago.”
Jennifer Love Hewitt stares at her husband in the background of Christmas movie “The Holiday Junkie.” (Jennifer Love Hewitt/Instagram)
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The “Ghost Whisperer” star told Fox News Digital that her 11-year-old daughter recently received a Screen Actors Guild card, the same age Hewitt gave her.
For her horror film “I Know What You Did Last Summer,” her children had hilarious reactions to the role of mother.
“They really liked it… She thought it was so cool that my character didn’t die,” Hewitt laughs.
Freddie Prinze Jr. and Jennifer Love Hewitt look up in awe in a scene from the 1998 film “I Still Know What You Did Last Summer.” (Columbia Images/Getty Images)
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She said her daughter “was like, ‘I’m really proud of you mom…’ that made it through'”
Hewitt also confessed that a random person shouted out her iconic line from the film: “What are you waiting for?” at her all the time.
She explained that fans Will randomly yell at her from across the street.
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Hewitt has been acting since childhood and told Fox News Digital what advice she would give to her younger self.
“I have always been a worrier,” she notes. “I’m just always worried… I really enjoyed this job and (thought) it would be my last job or… People would kick me out of Hollywood. and won’t let me act anymore.”
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Jennifer Love Hewitt said she would tell her younger self, “Everything will go well” (Cliff Lipson/Walt Disney Television via Getty Images Studios)
“Or maybe I’m being stupid… whatever. I’m just always worried… I enjoy it and live with it… Having a good time and all that. But I wasted a lot of time worrying. And I think I Just talking to her like, ‘Look, this will pass. You’re starting to get old. And they still let you do things… nevermind’”
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“The Holiday Junkie” premieres on Lifetime on December 1, 14.
