When Calls the Heart’s Pascale Hutton shared a look at her (faux) baby bump in a Season 10 teaser. In a video posted to Instagram, Hutton and her co-star Kavan Smith held hands and walked into a field while the song “Baby Love” by The Supremes plays. Hutton then turned to reveal a baby bump.
“A very special Christmas present to all those #Hearties out there!” Hutton wrote in the caption.
“Season 10 is going to be a very special delivery!!!” co-star Erin Krakow wrote in the comments section.
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Fans were thrilled when Hutton’s When Calls the Heart character, Rosemary Coulter, discovered late in Season 9 that she was pregnant. In a hilarious scene, she shared the news with her husband, Leland (played by Smith), who was so excited he ran outside in his pajamas shouting with excitement.
The Coulters married in Season 3 and have been hoping to become parents ever since. In a devastating scene, a tearful Rosemary apologized to Lee for not giving him a child. Lee replied, “No matter how much I want to be a father the only thing in the whole world I really need is you.”
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In interviews, both Pascale Hutton and Kavan Smith said they have been lobbying writers to make Rosemary and Leland parents for years. But they figured producers waited to write a pregnancy into the script because there was already a baby on the show. (Little Jack Thornton was played by Gunnar and Lincoln Taylor from Season 6 to Season 8 before being replaced by Hyland Goodrich in Season 9).
Since twins are needed to play babies on TV shows and movies because of labor laws, Hutton and Smith reckoned producers didn’t want another set of twins on the set.
“It’s logistics,” Smith said in an interview with Entertainment Tonight.
In the same interview, both actors said it would be great for the Coulters to become parents.
“I think it would be hilarious to see Rosemary pregnant,” Hutton said.
“For Lee and Rosemary, with the two quirky characters that they are to go through [a pregnancy] together?” Smith said. “It’s just a gold mine of fun to be had.”
Season 10 of When Calls the Heart is set to premiere in 2023. As of publication, Hallmark has not yet given a premiere date.
