TJ
01-14-2003, 10:05 PM
http://tv.zap2it.com/news/tvnewsdaily.html?29662
her newest TV movie.
Also starring in the Friday night WB show "What I Like About You," Garth had just learned she and her husband, actor Peter Facinelli, were expecting their second child when she started filming "The Last Cowboy," a Hallmark Channel film airing Friday, Jan. 17 at 9 p.m. ET -- six weeks after daughter Lola Ray was born, and one hour after her series airs.
Garth stars as a single parent who returns to Texas and reunites with her long-estranged father (Lance Henriksen) after her grandfather dies. The two of them inherit her grandfather's ranch, but each has different ideas about its continued operation. The woman's relationship with a horse trainer (Bradley Cooper, "Alias") figures into the eventual outcome.
Raised in the Midwest, Garth found the riding sequences in "The Last Cowboy" to be second nature. "That was one of the big draws for me," she admits. "I love horses and I've always been a rider, but I didn't know I would be newly pregnant [while riding for the movie]. There I was, out there in 100-degree weather, wrangling cattle." Garth adds that the producers knew of her condition, so everyone was "very cautious" with her.
Another big aspect of "The Last Cowboy" is the father-daughter relationship, which meant a lot to Garth since she's extremely close to her own dad. "I made this movie with him in mind," she confirms. "We shot it in the California valley where my parents live, so I got to spend every day with my dad. He came to work with me, so it was a really good experience overall."
Garth filmed the "What I Like About You" pilot, in which she did highly physical comedy, before her pregnancy. She wasn't on her feet as much in subsequent episodes, which tried to conceal her condition by placing her behind every large object imaginable: a shopping bag, a computer screen, a giant teddy bear ... you name it. "We did our best," Garth reflects. "It got quite challenging, and so frustrating for me as an actress, toward the end. I just wanted to be able to talk and walk at the same time, but I could never get out of my chair. You could see it; we just didn't address it."
To compensate, co-star Amanda Bynes "had to work really hard," Garth acknowledges. "She was getting annoyed with me, in a joking way." As new episodes of "What I Like About You" resume after a string of holiday-season repeats, Garth likes the shift in the show's tone. She terms it "a little less physical and a little more relationship-driven. We're both really happy about that. I had never done physical comedy before, and everyone seemed to respond to it, but the network people decided they didn't want the show to be so 'young.' I was ready for that, because [the earlier approach] was not what I had signed on to do."
What to watch on TV each Friday at 8 p.m. ET has become a challenge in Garth's household. Her show now airs directly against husband Facinelli's "Fastlane," which FOX moved from Wednesdays at the start of the month.
"We're in a real bind," Garth muses. "We don't know which show to watch and which one to TiVo. Peter Roth, the president of Warner Bros. Television, [which makes both shows], called and said, 'We're so sorry. This has got to be weird.' Truthfully, we really haven't spent that much time worrying about it, because the shows are so different. Oddly enough, we don't feel any kind of competition."
her newest TV movie.
Also starring in the Friday night WB show "What I Like About You," Garth had just learned she and her husband, actor Peter Facinelli, were expecting their second child when she started filming "The Last Cowboy," a Hallmark Channel film airing Friday, Jan. 17 at 9 p.m. ET -- six weeks after daughter Lola Ray was born, and one hour after her series airs.
Garth stars as a single parent who returns to Texas and reunites with her long-estranged father (Lance Henriksen) after her grandfather dies. The two of them inherit her grandfather's ranch, but each has different ideas about its continued operation. The woman's relationship with a horse trainer (Bradley Cooper, "Alias") figures into the eventual outcome.
Raised in the Midwest, Garth found the riding sequences in "The Last Cowboy" to be second nature. "That was one of the big draws for me," she admits. "I love horses and I've always been a rider, but I didn't know I would be newly pregnant [while riding for the movie]. There I was, out there in 100-degree weather, wrangling cattle." Garth adds that the producers knew of her condition, so everyone was "very cautious" with her.
Another big aspect of "The Last Cowboy" is the father-daughter relationship, which meant a lot to Garth since she's extremely close to her own dad. "I made this movie with him in mind," she confirms. "We shot it in the California valley where my parents live, so I got to spend every day with my dad. He came to work with me, so it was a really good experience overall."
Garth filmed the "What I Like About You" pilot, in which she did highly physical comedy, before her pregnancy. She wasn't on her feet as much in subsequent episodes, which tried to conceal her condition by placing her behind every large object imaginable: a shopping bag, a computer screen, a giant teddy bear ... you name it. "We did our best," Garth reflects. "It got quite challenging, and so frustrating for me as an actress, toward the end. I just wanted to be able to talk and walk at the same time, but I could never get out of my chair. You could see it; we just didn't address it."
To compensate, co-star Amanda Bynes "had to work really hard," Garth acknowledges. "She was getting annoyed with me, in a joking way." As new episodes of "What I Like About You" resume after a string of holiday-season repeats, Garth likes the shift in the show's tone. She terms it "a little less physical and a little more relationship-driven. We're both really happy about that. I had never done physical comedy before, and everyone seemed to respond to it, but the network people decided they didn't want the show to be so 'young.' I was ready for that, because [the earlier approach] was not what I had signed on to do."
What to watch on TV each Friday at 8 p.m. ET has become a challenge in Garth's household. Her show now airs directly against husband Facinelli's "Fastlane," which FOX moved from Wednesdays at the start of the month.
"We're in a real bind," Garth muses. "We don't know which show to watch and which one to TiVo. Peter Roth, the president of Warner Bros. Television, [which makes both shows], called and said, 'We're so sorry. This has got to be weird.' Truthfully, we really haven't spent that much time worrying about it, because the shows are so different. Oddly enough, we don't feel any kind of competition."