Hallmark star Stacey Farber has mixed emotions about a potential return to Degrassi Community School.
“I don’t know if we should,” Farber, 38, exclusively told Us Weekly on Wednesday, April 22, while promoting her newest Hallmark film, I’ll Be Seeing You. “It’s one of those things that I think is so well-done and left in its time period.”
Farber notably portrayed Ellie Nash on Degrassi: The Next Generation from season 2 through 8. The long-running Canadian teen drama was created by Linda Schuyler and Kit Hood, chronicling the realistic lives of students in Toronto.
“When I was on it, so long ago, we didn’t have social media [and] we didn’t have smartphones,” the actress recalled on Wednesday. “It was awesome because it was that different era of representing the high school experience. So, I don’t even know how we would do it now. [It would] just be a completely different thing.”
Farber has since moved on from her tenure on Degrassi, now starring in a slate of Hallmark movies. She recently filmed I’ll Be Seeing You opposite Tyler Hynes and Christine Ebersole.
In the film, Amy (Farber) takes a sentimental road trip with her beloved grandmother, where they cross paths with kind stranger Mark (Hynes) along the way.
“My character is a classic workaholic, who can’t let go of her job to just enjoy her life even a little,” Farber told Us of the new film. “She goes to visit her grandmother, who she’s very close with, and her boss calls and says she needs to close a deal down the coast in California, where this is set. So, her grandmother pitches a road trip, a girls trip to her with her grandmother’s best friend as well.”
She continued, “They get in the car and get a flat tire, and that’s where Tyler’s character, Mark, comes in to save the day and flirt and impart wisdom about the necessity of enjoying your life and being more spontaneous.”
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In addition to costarring with Farber, I’ll Be Seeing You marks Hynes’ debut as an executive producer for the network.
“Christine and I met on the Chiefs movie, Holiday Touchdown, and that was a series of moments throughout my career and life where I’d had the opportunity to work opposite somebody who had been doing this for such a wonderful amount of time,” Hynes, 39, told Us. “Those were always my favorite memories from shooting these movies, and it was no exception on Chiefs, and so when we finished that, I really tried to go about bringing this movie to happen and have Christine step into this role, which was a dream.”
I’ll Be Seeing You premieres on Hallmark Channel Saturday, April 25, at 8 p.m. ET.
