'When Kayleigh, a romance writer, has her column cancelled right before Christmas, she heads home to reconnect with her family. Kayleigh gets an unexpected visit from the man who cancelled her column who fights not only to bring her back to the publisher but also for her heart.'
In Christmas She Wrote, Kaleigh (Danica McKellar) returns to her home town after getting fired from her New York writing job. Of course as soon as he's fired, they realize what a huge audience she had and her new boss (Dylan Neal) has to try to get her back. Actor Andrew Francis isn't the male lead in this particular Hallmark Holiday film, instead he plays the gay male bestie to the movie's female lead.
In some ways, this 12 Days with Andrew Francis brings the series full circle. Although I've always loved Christmas movies, I don't think I ever saw a Hallmark Christmas movie when I first started FH. I think the first one I saw was a repeat of Santa Baby. That had me on the hunt for images of the hunky lead played by Ivan Sergei.
After Santa Baby, I began checking them out on occasion and two of my early 12 Days posts included features on The 12 Men of Christmas and a piece on Andrew Francis from 2011's Trading Christmas. (HERE:) I really liked Trading Christmas and although Francis only had a small part, I took note, especially of his great smile and curly blonde hair.
Francis was mostly a voice actor through the 90's and 2000's but began picking up on screen roles including parts in television movies and on guest appearances on shows like Supernatural, as well as regular roles on Cedar Cove and Chesapeake Shores. Francis is the perfect example of why I love the 12 Days series. Not only does it introduce me to many talented and sexy actors, it also gives me the opportunity to seek out roles far from the nice guys they play in holiday Hallmark films. Check out Francis' role in Deeper below to see what I mean...
'A journalist is caught up in a woman's brutal revenge against two men who mistreated her in the past.'
Francis's only nude scene that I know of is in 2014's Deeper: The Retribution of Beth. In the film, Francis plays Steve, a sleazy owner of a porn company who picks up women on the street to film 'Girls Gone Wild' type videos. While being profiled by Mark (Matthew Kevin Anderson) an investigative journalist, Steve makes the mistake of picking up Beth and her friend Sam. Beth pulls a gun on the pair and drives the two men into the woods outside of town.
From there, her revenge commences. As part of her retribution, at gunpoint, Beth orders Mark to sexually assault Steve. I don't like sharing videos of violence or sexual assault, but I am including the video of the aftermath, when the incident in interrupted by a hunter who attempts to come to the rescue. Oddly, the hunter chose not to pull up Steve's pants before lifting him onto his shoulders and putting him into the back of the van.
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