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05-22-2022, 01:33 AM
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/beverly-hills-90210-alum-jennie-garth-interview-says-she-loves-playing-a-mom-120021807.html
For Jennie Garth, joining the Tubi movie Bad Influence was an easy decision.
"There aren't a lot of scripts that sort of speak to me. This was one [that did], because it was about a relationship with mother and daughter, and I know a lot about that," the Beverly Hills, 90210 alum tells Yahoo Entertainment. "I have three daughters of my own, and so it was an interesting role to explore."
Garth is mom to Luca, 24; Lola, 19; and 15-year-old Fiona, whose dad is Garth's actor ex-husband Peter Facinelli. (She's been married to Dave Abrams since 2015, minus a break from 2017 to 2019.)
In her new thriller, a tamer version of The Craft, with a dash of Single White Female, Garth plays single mom Joan, who brings her daughter, Lily — portrayed by actress Devin Cecchetto, who actually appeared briefly in the 2020 movie The Craft: Legacy — to a new town in the middle of her senior year of high school. Lily's dad has died recently, and Joan has landed a job teaching English at a local college. She's hoping for a fresh start, but not the kind of shakeup her family ends up experiencing, after Lily becomes enmeshed in a cult, even getting branded like members of NXIVM. Lily is suddenly not talking to her mom as much as she used to and, when she does, she sounds like someone else.
"Any kind of relationship with a mother and a daughter, it's so easy for me to tap into my own … well of love and fear for my own daughters' lives and their health and their safety and their well being and their happiness. It's all in there, just because I have so much experience with it, and I think that that makes my ability to tell these stories a lot richer."
For Jennie Garth, joining the Tubi movie Bad Influence was an easy decision.
"There aren't a lot of scripts that sort of speak to me. This was one [that did], because it was about a relationship with mother and daughter, and I know a lot about that," the Beverly Hills, 90210 alum tells Yahoo Entertainment. "I have three daughters of my own, and so it was an interesting role to explore."
Garth is mom to Luca, 24; Lola, 19; and 15-year-old Fiona, whose dad is Garth's actor ex-husband Peter Facinelli. (She's been married to Dave Abrams since 2015, minus a break from 2017 to 2019.)
In her new thriller, a tamer version of The Craft, with a dash of Single White Female, Garth plays single mom Joan, who brings her daughter, Lily — portrayed by actress Devin Cecchetto, who actually appeared briefly in the 2020 movie The Craft: Legacy — to a new town in the middle of her senior year of high school. Lily's dad has died recently, and Joan has landed a job teaching English at a local college. She's hoping for a fresh start, but not the kind of shakeup her family ends up experiencing, after Lily becomes enmeshed in a cult, even getting branded like members of NXIVM. Lily is suddenly not talking to her mom as much as she used to and, when she does, she sounds like someone else.
"Any kind of relationship with a mother and a daughter, it's so easy for me to tap into my own … well of love and fear for my own daughters' lives and their health and their safety and their well being and their happiness. It's all in there, just because I have so much experience with it, and I think that that makes my ability to tell these stories a lot richer."