Bethany Joy Lenz plays a woman caught in a love triangle in the new Hallmark romance movie Savoring Paris. The film, which will premiere as part of Hallmark Channel’s Passport to Love programming event, also stars Ben Wiggins and Stanley Weber.
In a recent interview, Lenz talked about her experience filming the movie in Paris.
“I loved the wildness of it,” she told People. “You can’t control Paris. You can’t tell pedestrians what to do. You just have to improvise with whatever you have. It was terrific fun.”
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In Savoring Paris, Bethany Joy Lenz plays Ella, a burned out exec at an American food chain who realizes the happiest time of her life was during a trip to Paris after college. Ella quits her job and jets off to the City of Lights to recapture that feeling as she considers her next move. Free from a job that made her unhappy and away from her well-meaning mom (played by Lucy Newman-Williams), who always urges her to make safe and practical life choices, Ella embraces her newfound joie de vivre.
She also finds herself forming connections with two men: Gaston (played by Ben Wiggins), and Serge, (played by Stanley Weber).
According to a synopsis from Hallmark, “…Just as she decides what she wants in life – and who she wants to be with – cultural differences put those plans in question.”
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Bethany Joy Lenz movies and TV shows
Bethany Joy Lenz has starred in a number of Hallmark movies, including A Biltmore Christmas (2023), An Unexpected Christmas (2021), Five Star Christmas (2020), Just My Type (2020), A Valentine’s Match (2020), Bottled With Love (2019), Poinsettias for Christmas (2018), Royal Matchmaker (2018), Snowed-Inn Christmas (2017), The Christmas Secret (2014).
Lenz, who rose to fame playing Haley James Scott on the popular TV series One Tree Hill, described her experience making the film Savoring Paris as life-changing.
“This film will always be special to me because of what I learned from my character,” she says. “She’s the first woman I’ve played who is used to making space for everyone else, but taking up none of her own. I’ve usually felt like I need to fight for my space, so living in the skin of someone more demure was a unique experience.”