“I loved it,” Levy tells EW.
“It’s a perfect fusion, Christmas andZoey’s.
It actually works so well, and I was heartened by the script.
Jane Levy and Skylar Astin in ‘Zoey’s Extraordinary Christmas’.The Roku Channel
And that’s why the holiday movie is “really rewarding” for that couple and for the fans.
“You get to see people have dueling heart songs, which is a first.
It makes things hard and it also makes things easier.
A scene from ‘Zoey’s Extraordinary Christmas’.
In many ways it causes problems and then ultimately, it brings them closer together.”
And having Max share the powers with Zoey finally gives their relationship a sense of balance.
It’s not always songs where you get to just kind of enjoy a concert.
“There are no secrets.
They can really have honest conversations with each other now,” Astin says.
“He understands what it all actually feels like now.
That’s why my favorite dynamic of this film was just that partnership between Max and Zoey.”
At least, not anymore.
“There’s a lot of mileage in seeing them together,” Astin says.
“It doesn’t feel like a finish line to me.
There’s a lot of areas to explore with that relationship with them being boyfriend and girlfriend.
There’s a whole new story to tell.”
“It was a wild ride, let me tell you.
None of this was expected,” Levy says with a laugh.
So thank you to everybody who rallied and voiced your love of the show.”
“It was surreal more than anything,” he says.
And then it was strange how normal everything was.
It just felt kind of like this exciting double episode ofZoey’s."
Walking back on set, “it felt like I had never left,” Levy says.
It was a whirlwind."
But she made sure never to take it for granted during filming.
“What a wonderful gift that we get to do this again,” Levy adds.
At least for now.
Knowing that, there was a bit of bittersweetness to the process."
Zoey’s Extraordinary Christmaspremieres Dec. 1 on the Roku Channel.
