When Calls the Heart co-stars Viv Leacock and Natasha Burnett will headline the new Hallmark romance movie Legend of the Lost Locket. The actors, who play Joseph and Minnie Canfield on When Calls the Heart, play strangers searching for an enchanted antique in the Legend of the Lost Locket, which will premiere as part of Hallmark Channel’s Spring Into Love lineup.
“This is your official reminder to join Amelia on her search for the true love locket… and true love along the way!” wrote Natasha Burnett in an Instagram post to promote the movie.
Her When Calls the Heart co-stars responded in the comments section.
“AHHHH!!! I CANT WAIT!!!” wrote Amanda Wong.
“SO pretty!” wrote Erin Krakow.
Hallmark romance movie
In Legend of the Lost Locket, Natasha Burnett stars as Amelia Scott, a London-based antiques expert on the hunt for a long-lost antique locket that legend says will grant the wearer true love. Her late mother started the quest and Amelia is bound and determined to see it through.
When her search brings her to a small town in Massachusetts, she immediately clashes with Sheriff Marcus Forrest (played by Viv Leacock), who questions her motives and interest in the town’s history.
But when he begins to understand what acquiring the iconic locket could mean for the community, he joins Amelia in the race to find the antique before any of her competitors can decipher the clues and beat them to the treasure.
“As their pursuit of the locket intensifies, so do their feelings for each other,” reads a synopsis from Hallmark. “From the Boston art world to participation in the town’s annual Founder’s Day costume ball, their search for the fabled locket inspires Amelia and Marcus to follow their hearts to the ultimate treasure – true love.”
About the cast
Viv Leacock and Natasha Burnett joined the cast of Hallmark’s longest-running original series When Calls the Heart in 2021. They play Joseph and Minnie Canfield on the show, parents to Cooper and Angela, who are played by Elias and Vienna Leacock, Viv Leacock’s real-life son and daughter.
In a 2022 interview, Natasha Burnett talked about how welcoming cast members were.
“There was such a positive energy because most of them have been there for so long!” she told Daily Planet. “They were all willing to show us anything we needed to know. For a character, when you join doesn’t matter, because the character still has to be developed and established.”
Natasha Burnett movies and TV shows
Natasha Burnett was born in Surrey, England. For four years she played Diana Ross in the live theater production The Magic of Motown Show. She spent a year in Australia studying at the National Institute of Dramatic Art before moving to Vancouver, Canada.
She has appeared in the following TV shows and movies:
Natasha Burnett TV shows:
UnREAL
Olympus
iZombie
Supergirl
Home Alone
The Good Doctor
Natasha Burnett Movies:
Harvest Moon (2015)
The Bridge (2015)
The Bridge Part 2 (2016)
Love at First Bark (2017)
The Mountain Between Us (2017)
Sweet Revenge: A Hannah Swensen Mystery (2021)
The Journey Ahead (2022)
Viv Leacock
Viv Leacock got his break in the 2002 Eddie Murphy movie I Spy. He has appeared on the TV shows Arrow, Supernatural, Fringe, Eureka, and White Collar Poet.
He appeared in the Hallmark TV show Cedar Cove and had a recurring role in the Hallmark series Hailey Dean Mysteries with Kellie Martin. Viv Leacock starred in the movies A Christmas Detour (2015), The Game of Love (2016), The Julius House: An Aurora Teagarden Mystery (2016), Season’s Greetings (2016), Murder, She Baked: Just Desserts (2017), Karen Kingsbury’s Maggie’s Christmas Miracle (2017), It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas (2019), Rise and Shine, Benedict Stone (2021).
