Looking for a good cry? In Hallmark Channel's A Stranger's Heart (premiering Saturday at 9 pm/ET), Samantha Mathis plays Callie, an all-business magazine reporter who in the wake of a heart transplant comes to embrace life and love anew, while finding herself feeling a strange connection to both a little girl and a cute guy she doesn’t know. What ultimately comes to light... well, that's Hallmark's tale to tell. TVGuide.com spoke with Mathis about this real heart-tugger, as well as pumped her for details on what may be the sexiest and steamiest ABC sudser you will never get the chance to see.
TVGuide.com: OK, let's get this over and done with: I understand that one reason you took on this Hallmark project is because the script had a lot of "heart" in it?Samantha Mathis: Ohhh... ba-dum-b
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Jeremy Sisto is on a hunt in each of his two latest TV roles. In the Nightmares & Dreamscapes: From the Stories of Stephen King episode "The Fifth Quarter," (premiering tonight at 10 pm/ET on TNT), he's an ex-con laboring to stay clean while on a quest to uncover millions in buried bucks. And this fall he's in Kidnapped, an NBC drama about an abducted kid and the unorthodox, don't-involve-the-Feds tracker (Sisto) enlisted to find him. TVGuide.com chatted up the actor about tackling such nightmare scenarios.
TVGuide.com: In reviewing your résumé, I don't really see much that is inherently uninteresting. A lot of your projects seem to have an edg
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Who's Samantha Mathis? She's a 34-year-old Hollywood cutie who's dated dudes like Christian Slater, River Phoenix and Noah Wyle. Onscreen, the actress has also played sexy wives and girlfriends in movies from 1990's Pump Up the Volume to this summer's The Punisher. But before TNT's vampire miniseries Salem's Lot (June 20 and 21 at 8 pm/ET), she'd never sucked blood — or sucked face with Rob Lowe! In honor of this unique career milestone, Mathis sinks her teeth into seven of the silliest questions we could think of.
TV Guide Online: Just curious... Are you related to singer Johnny Mathis?Samantha Mathis: I usually just say no, but occasionally, I go, "Yeah, I'm his daughter" or "I'm his ex-wife." Sadly, there's no relation.
TVGO: Wouldn't it add oomph to your career if you were related?Mathis: I don't know! Do you think that trend of famous fathers and daughters would help me
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