Fake snow should be looked at and played with, but not ingested. And that's something that actor John Brotherton accidentally learned while filming 2022's "Lights, Camera, Christmas!" The movie follows thrift shop owner Kerry Devine (Kimberley Sustad), who finds herself working as a costume designer on the set of a holiday movie that is using her hometown as the backdrop. Brotherton plays Brad Baxter, the king of Christmas movies, and he finds a romantic connection while working with Kerry.
While the film was fun to shoot, Brotherton recalled one fake snow mishap during an interview for the Hallmark Channel. "So we're like making snow angels, but then she decides to just douse my face at point blank with a big handful of fake snow ... [I] sort of inhaled. That went into my lungs," he said, with Sustad adding that a doctor had to give him muscle relaxants.
As actors learn to carefully work with the fake snow, they also find themselves creating some on-screen magic that helps to make those wintry scenes very convincing to people watching at home. Hallmark star Lacey Chabert told Entertainment Weekly, "Typically, they are shot in the summer, and you're in coats, scarves, gloves, and cashmere, and it's 110 degrees outside ... It's actually kind of a skill to act cold ..."
