Jennifer Love Hewitt Talks Collab With Ferrero Rocher, Memoir, & Christmas

Tyler Treese: Jennifer, you might have this actually thrilling marketing campaign occurring with Ferrero Rocher – the good chocolate model. They’re doing the “Add Your Golden Contact” marketing campaign, which is filled with these nice internet hosting ideas. All people is aware of that internet hosting is a number of enjoyable, however it’s additionally a number of work. May you inform us slightly bit about that marketing campaign and what excited you about getting concerned with it?

Jennifer Love Hewitt: I used to be actually honored [to be asked] to staff up. I contemplate myself the vacation junkie. So I’m an enormous hostess in the course of the vacation season — actually all yr lengthy, however positively in the course of the vacation season. And Ferrero Rocher is such a nostalgic and traditional model. So many individuals, after we introduced our partnership, reached out. “Oh my gosh, I grew up with that chocolate in my home on a regular basis, or my grandma’s home, or my aunt’s home, or my mother’s home.”

So it simply feels acquainted to folks. I’m acquainted to folks and form of nostalgic for folks as nicely coming from the nineties. So, it felt like a fantastic partnership. I really like their chocolate.
I really like what they do. I really like that the Golden Contact provides slightly little bit of magic to the vacation season. It’s a fantastic internet hosting present. It’s a fantastic last-minute present. I really like that you could find their sweets in your native grocery retailer and attain for them if you happen to’ve forgotten or if you happen to want a last-minute sparkle in your desk.

We simply had such time doing the little advertisements. Once I walked on the set, I used to be like, “Can I dwell right here? That is so lovely.” So it was nice, and I’m simply actually honored.

They launched this great website with a bunch of little ideas. You may make your individual DIY ornaments and these little place playing cards. They’re actually cute, and the chocolate’s legitimately actually nice as nicely. Like an ideal stocking stuffer or simply to place out. It’s scrumptious.

Yeah, 100%. I’ve been placing them in my youngsters’ lunches since we did the since we did advertisements, and so they’re loving it. Now the youngsters are preventing over Ferrero Rocher at college, which is kinda cute.

You mentioned you’re the vacation junkie. I used to be curious — what are your vacation film traditions? I’ve at all times gotta watch Rudolph, and I’ve gotta watch A Christmas Story. These are the 2 for me.

Oh yeah. I at all times begin my Christmas film yr out with The Vacation. It’s my favourite. However I’m additionally an enormous Christmas TV film fan, so I watch all of the Christmas motion pictures after they come on. I’m actually fortunate to get to be in a single this yr, which is superior. However yeah, we positively do this. Proper now Aiden, my three-year-old, could be very a lot into The Grinch. So we have now Grinch on all day, all evening again and again and over.

You’re not simply a part of a vacation film this yr. You directed The Vacation Junkie, which is unimaginable. I do know you’ve directed tv episodes, however what was the most important change of doing a full film? Was something stunning, or did all that point on set form of put together you for it?

So, we solely had 15 days to shoot, which was loopy. [laughs] It was wild. So we shoot like a 9-1-1 episode in eight to 9 days, and that’s a sure web page rely. This was double that web page rely. Plus, I used to be in every thing.

It was quite a bit, however it was wonderful. I really like directing a lot. I want I may simply do this full-time. And we simply had a good time. It was stunning to me how a lot I loved having Christmas in June. I used to be like, “Is that this gonna make me sick of Christmas early within the yr?” And it didn’t occur. I simply liked it. It was nice.

Tyler Treese: I’m actually excited to observe that. Your husband stars within the movie with you, as nicely. How is it directing your vital different? He already is aware of to obey your rule, proper?

Effectively, I’ve to be bossy, in order that’s nice. ’trigger I like to be bossy.

So it was like, “Guys, what? I’ve to boss you round. I’m so sorry to my buddies and my household.” [But] that was good. It gave me an excuse to try this. [And] he’s so great on this film. He has not accomplished a Christmas film earlier than. I believe he needs to be in all of them. He’s an ideal Christmas film man, simply dreamy, proficient… all of the issues. We had a number of enjoyable attending to fall in love with one another day by day. It was nice.

You’ve gotten a memoir popping out as nicely. It’s such an thrilling time for you. It’s known as Inheriting Magic: My Journey By Grief, Pleasure, Celebration, and Making Every part Magical. What are you most enthusiastic about folks to expertise after they can decide it up on December tenth?

Simply attending to know slightly bit about me and my household. We’re fairly non-public about that stuff, however this felt like a very nice technique to share. Additionally hoping to encourage folks so as to add the intention of their very own type magic into their households slightly bit extra day by day, and with the ability to honor my mother was actually a blessing for me. Not solely simply in life however in my grief journey. It felt actually particular to honor her this fashion.

You talked about earlier that you just’re clearly a well-known face. Folks have nostalgia for you They’ve a nostalgia on your tasks, like I Know What You Did Final Summer time. It’s unimaginable that that’s nonetheless so beloved 25+ years later. Now it’s coming again. How wild has it been for that to simply be a continuing in your life? The fanbase for that by no means went away.

It’s so loopy. Yeah. The film simply turned 27, so did I. I’m solely 27 – that’s what I name myself now [laughs].

Yeah, it’s nice. My youngsters simply watched it for the primary time and that was wild. My huge youngsters sitting with them and their buddies watching a film and seeing myself at 18 and searching similar to my daughter, which is loopy. They liked it.

I liked that fan base. I really like that individuals nonetheless root for that film. It was an enormous second for me in my life. It was my first time actually starring in a film I used to be 18. It simply has a particular place in my coronary heart for positive.

This new one is so thrilling. How does it really feel returning to a personality that a few years away? That’s such a novel scenario that doesn’t occur fairly often. Is that simpler since you’ve lived in that area for therefore lengthy or is it difficult since you’re attempting to recapture that preliminary expertise? How is that?

So, the attention-grabbing factor is I’m not formally signed on but, however we’re shut. We’ve been attempting to determine quite a bit with the 9-1-1 schedule. It’s been slightly difficult.

However the thought of returning to Julie James is absolutely thrilling for me. It’s scary. I believe on the private stage of being like, “what are folks gonna consider the 45-year-old model of Julie James?” I believe ’trigger I’m a girl and human, that a part of it makes me slightly nervous.
However taking part in her once more could be an honor. I believe I really feel excited to indicate or see what she’s been as much as and the way she has modified, and what she nonetheless holds onto from that notorious evening on the street.

One other considered one of your nice early motion pictures is Can’t Hardly Wait. I simply re-watched {that a} month in the past, and that simply fully holds up. It’s additionally a visit now as a result of even background characters in that movie are enormous names now. It’s loopy to see. What stood out about filming that?

Everybody in it was great. For me, it was such a loopy expertise as a result of I had by no means been to a highschool occasion. It’s nonetheless, to this present day, the one highschool occasion I’ve ever been to, and what a celebration it was. It simply saved going and going and going. So for me it was a extremely particular film as a result of it was form of my highschool expertise that movie.

I liked taking part in Amanda Beckett. So many individuals nonetheless come as much as me and say, “Amanda!” and so they adore it. There are such a lot of group costumes nonetheless on Halloween the place like buddies – grownup buddies – come because the solid from Can’t Hardly Wait. It’s like a fantastic group costume, I suppose, and it’s fairly humorous. So, I get an enormous kick out of it.

That’s so enjoyable. I additionally needed to ask – since you’ve at all times had humorousness about your self – you’re a part of an early Household Man standout [S3E19 – “Stuck Together, Torn Apart.] Not many actresses can say they dated and connected with Peter Griffin.

Proper? That was so enjoyable. I had such time. I used to be so excited. And it was simply on the opposite day, which is so bizarre that you just introduced it up. I simply obtained to see it once more the opposite day. And it was actually enjoyable and foolish and good. Then they talked about me on South Park [S2E26, “Cow Days”] – like, in the identical yr or one thing. I used to be like, “Oh yeah, we’ve made it.” It was tremendous cool.

You’ve positively made it if you’re being parodied in an grownup cartoon. That’s unimaginable.

One other unimaginable piece of your historical past is the music video for “Hero” by Enrique Iglesias. Once you first heard that tune – what was your response? As a result of if you two shot that music video, you actually turned the face of an iconic tune.

Oh, it was such a ravishing tune. I completely liked it. Mickey Rourke in that video was wild. It was so enjoyable attending to do cool stunt stuff with him. We had a blast filming the video. It was actually lovely.

My daughter truly began singing that tune out of nowhere like 5 months in the past. She was like, “Oh, I simply heard this wonderful tune,” and I used to be like, “Oh yeah, I’ve heard it.” However that video’s slightly saucy, so I haven’t instructed her I used to be within the video but. We’ll see at some point quickly.

You additionally had a cameo in considered one of my favourite motion pictures, Tropic Thunder. You’re simply there for just a few seconds, however it pays off a extremely humorous joke within the film. How did that come up so that you can seem in that?

You understand what? They known as, like, randomly – tremendous final minute – and requested if I might do it. And I used to be completely so honored. I used to be there for, I don’t know, 45 minutes. It was tremendous quick. However it ended up being actually cool. That’s one other one the place randomly, folks will simply yell, “Tropic Thunder!” in a mall or one thing, and I’m like, “Yeah, all proper.” It’s form of humorous.

Due to Jennifer Love Hewitt for taking the time to speak about her collab with Ferrero Rocher and extra.