By LillyKat
PTR Senior Staff Writer
Every once in a while, a girl just needs to make a little time for herself.
Take a breath.
Have a moment.
Put saving the world on hold.
Stop fighting the aliens.
Meet up with the the dark lords of the underworld at a later date.
Darling of all-things alien and sci-fi, Kari Matchett, needed just that when she signed on for the Hallmark channel original movie,
The National Tree.
"I’ve done a lot of aliens and sci-fi stuff," she says with a laugh, "and I just felt like I was in the mood for doing something sweet and light - something that didn’t hurt anybody, didn’t have any violence in it, didn't have any heaviness to it."
That would be standard Hallmark fare, which we here at PTR do actually appreciate given family dramatic programming has become a dying art, and light, bright and airy sitcoms have all but vanished from the television landscape.
So it was refreshing to catch up with
newly minted surfer girl grom Kari (pronounced CAR-EE) to chat about her role in
The National Tree, which premieres Saturday, November 28th at 8 p.m. (7 p.m. Central). The film is based on the novel by David Kranes and centers on the search for a new national Christmas tree that is to be delivered to Washington, D.C., planted across from the White House, and lit in honor of the start of the holiday season by the President and the First Family. Kari portrays the marketing rep working for the company coordinating the national contest that selects the winning tree.
"It was a story that I thought would have a nice energy to be in for a while - and it was," says Kari.