Sadie Laflamme-Snow On The Way Home And Navigating Two Timelines

Recently, Hallmark Channel released its latest new, original drama series, The Way Home, starring Andie MacDowell, Chyler Leigh and Sadie Laflamme-Snow. The stars play a grandmother, Del, a mother, Kat, and a time-traveling daughter, Alice. Sadie recently opened up about her role in the new series, where she navigates between two different timelines.

Sadie Laflamme-Snow on the Hallmark series, The Way Home

In the Hallmark series, The Way Home, Sadie Laflamme-Snow plays Alice, a high school student with an incredible secret. In fact, she can go back to 1999 to befriend her mother, Kat, in her teens. However, the time she travels to is a short time before tragedy forever changes the fabric of her family.

This obviously is a major challenge for any actor and TV Fanatic interviewed Sadie, asking how Alice can hide such a massive secret. When asked what it is like carrying twotime periods, she responded, “Yeah, it’s been the most exciting challenge,” adding:

In terms of being an actor, in terms of just keeping both timelines straight in your mind when you’re shooting multiple episodes at the same time, trying to remember what do I know, what am I allowed to tell people, and what it means when you have knowledge about your family that could help them in the present day and help them work through what they’re going through in the present day, but you can’t possibly explain how you know these things.

Laflamme-Snow explained what a great challenge it was for her, especially in the first and second episodes, where we see Alice going through it in the present day. She adds that she is acting out, lashing out at her family, at her mom and at her grandmother, who she barely knows.

Like most teens in high school, Alice is making life pretty hard for people. However, then, she ends up in another timeline and is “completely transformed” by the warmth of what her family used to be like. Sadie said she is open, she is happy and she realizes that person is inside of her in the present day. Meanwhile, she just has a lot of walls up. Laflamme-Snow added:

As an actor, it’s exciting to see how both of those things can happen at the same time for one character. It was a challenge in and of itself to remember: when was I in the pond? Have I come back from the nineties? What do I know? How do I know that? So yeah, it was fantastic.

Alice’s pond adventure changes her

As mentioned by Sadie, the pond adventure changed her drastically in a very short time. She was asked how hard it is not to be able to come right out and say it to her mom, Kat. She spoke of a scene where Kat was angry that she had gone missing. 

Meanwhile, it was clear that Alice was “just bursting” to tell her, but she didn’t do it. Laflamme-Snow said that scene causes even more tension at a time when Alice is trying to put the pieces back together with her family. Moreover, she is also helping her mom and grandmother to be able to communicate with each other.

Sadie said that in some ways, her time traveling aggravates that as there are constant misunderstandings, “Where has she been? Why is she lying? Why can’t she just come right out and say what she means?”

Read more of the interview with Sadie Laflamme-Snow on TV Fanatic’s website here.

Catch The Way Home on Sundays at 9 pm ET on Hallmark Channel.