Christine Baranski on Playing the ‘Christmas Grinch’ in ‘Dolly Parton’s Christmas on the Square’

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SPOILER ALERT: Do not read if you have not yet watched “Dolly Parton’s Christmas on the Square,” streaming now on Netflix. Christine Baranski grew up watching “White Christm…

Do not read if you have not yet watched “Dolly Parton’s Christmas on the Square,” streaming now on Netflix.grew up watching “White Christmas” with her family when she was a little girl, and that is a tradition she has kept, now watching it year after year with her own grandchildren.

Of course, there is much more to Regina than meets the eye — namely, her heart is not cold, she just has walls up around it after a traumatic time in her childhood. Her memories of living in that town became shrouded in darkness when she got pregnant and her father made her give the baby up out of fear that the townspeople would never accept her as a young, unwed mother.

“Debbie had a really good sense of what felt right. I find with material like this it’s best not to over-act it, to keep it simple or it will tilt to being too emotional or to ooey gooey, and that was something I kept saying to Debbie: ‘We’ve got to try to avoid overcoating with sentimentality; it doesn’t need it,'” Baranski recalls.

“My character had such an emotional journey, so to sing the song that I sing in the church about ‘Forgive me’ and I didn’t have any experience of doing those scenes [was hard],” she says. “We recorded it and it was a very emotional take, and then we re-recorded it and it was less emotional and more just concentrating on the song as written without too much acting of it, and we tried to balance that out.

 

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Rtreatwilliams Just watched this movie. Loved it!

I’m watching the dolly parton’s Christmas movie now... it’s a glorious train wreck covered in rhinestones. I’m screaming “lawyer up, this eviction is rediculous!”

Love them both!!!

A great talent for the ages. DollyParton

Where the heck do I watch

Christine Baranski is so underrated tbh, she deserves more recognition!

I loooooooooooooove Christine Baranski. LOVE. The Ref- highly underrated Xmas film. The Birdcage. Mama Mia. I could go on. And Dolly is a national treasure. There should be statues of her everywhere instead of the 10 commandments. She's righteous!

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