Jana Kramer Helped Her Husband Get Comfortable With Her Romantic Movie (Except)
By Samantha Agate | Published: 2025-11-02 19:30:00 | Source: Us Weekly
Jana Kramerlatest movie, Christmas ringfeatures a sweet holiday romance between two characters who share an undeniable spark – something that’s her husband’s, Alan Russellbecome more accustomed to seeing on the screen.
“He got more,” Kramer, 41, said exclusively. Us Weekly From Russell’s reaction to some of her more romantic roles. “I think at first it was harder for him, because he had never dated an actor.”
in Christmas ringKramer plays Vanessa Mayfield, a military widow who falls in love with antiques dealer Ben Miller (Benjamin Hollingsworth). In the midst of their blossoming relationship, Vanessa searches for a lost family heirloom: a Christmas ring.
“I think in any film you want to feel like these two characters have that emotional connection,” she says of the celebratory film’s central duo. “And I think what Ben and I really went for is that I just adore him as a person. He and I always try to make my husband feel comfortable in that as well, where, before we started filming, I invited Ben and his wife and kids over, and we had a barbecue.”
Kramer continued of her relationship with Hollingsworth, “The kids were playing, and Ben and I developed a friendship, like a real friendship. I made a friendship with his wife, and our kids made friends together. Filming with him, he’s such a good actor. … I feel like I’ve been friends with Ben since high school. That’s how I felt. We had this beautiful chemistry, and I think it’s because our characters felt that loss, but also, we worked so well together, and that was special.”
the One Tree Hill The alum married Russell, 44, in 2024. They welcomed their first child together, son Roman, now 23 months, in November 2023. (Kramer also shares daughter Julie, 9, and son Jace, 6, with ex-husband Mike Caussin.) Kramer and Russell have been fairly open about the topic of intimacy in her projects before E! news In June, “there is a conversation with every (job)” you do.
While Kramer and Hollingsworth, 41, were easily able to create holiday magic on screen, she explained that “it doesn’t happen that often with every actor.”
Jana Kramer
Rebecca Renee Photography“I didn’t have that with some of my other co-stars in movies earlier this year,” Kramer said. “But this was very different, and it was special. And I think that’s because Ben is a great actor, and his ability to work is great. And then the combination of our friendship and really liking each other made it great.”
Filming movies Although Kramer is no stranger to holiday movies, she said Christmas ring It was a slightly different experience than when she filmed Lifetime’s 2023 movie Romantic Cowboy Christmas. Kramer said she was pregnant with Roman while filming the final holiday movie, which included the first ever sex scene for a Lifetime Christmas movie.
“There was nothing exciting about it, like the whole experience,” she joked, revealing that she was “throwing up” between takes.
However, Kramer loves the variety of roles she has played in holiday movies, both past and present.
“Do I think every Christmas movie should have that steamy element? No, I think we have it in it.” Christmas ring“There’s more emotional chemistry than in the movie I did with the sex scene,” she noted. “There’s more chemistry between Ben and I in this movie on such a deep emotional level that we didn’t need the other piece.”
“It’s been a lot of fun to do something that’s family-friendly, based on the Christian faith, and it’s also fun to have that steamy thing as well,” Kramer concluded. “And that’s what I love about this Christmas movie. And the other movie I’ve done is that each one of them pushes the boundaries a little bit. So this movie pushes the boundaries with loss and grief and family relationships and conflict. And this movie pushes the boundaries with sexuality.”
Christmas ring It will be in theaters on Thursday, November 6.
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