Actor Jessica Lowndes tells BuzzFeed News how she came to star alongside Will Ferrell and Kristin Wiig in the year’s most-talked about TV movie — and what it was like remaining mum.
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When news broke on April 1 that Will Ferrell and Kristen Wiig were making in a Lifetime movie, the world assumed it was an April Fools' joke. Why would two of the biggest stars in comedy take time out of their busy moviemaking schedules to star as a husband and wife being tormented by a deranged woman (played by Jessica Lowndes)? A day later, Ferrell released a statement saying the leak had forced him to scrap the project, cementing those it's-just-a-joke assumptions.
"This movie was the biggest secret," Jessica Lowndes, who co-stars with Ferrell and Wiig in the film, told BuzzFeed News in a phone interview. "I had to sign a nondisclosure. I wasn't allowed to talk about it."
But two months later, billboards for A Deadly Adoption began popping up all around Los Angeles, and it was clear that Will Ferrell and Kristen Wiig's Lifetime movie would actually air (on June 20). The news was not only a relief to fans desperate to see the actors tackle such an unexpected terrain, but also to Lowndes.
"I didn't know what was going to happen," she said. "I was confused and worried. And then when I saw the billboard I was so unbelievably excited."
The film — which Lowndes calls "Ferrell's brainchild" — was created by Andrew Steele, who has a long history with the modern comedy legend. Steele spent 13 years writing on Saturday Night Live, including a four-year stint as head writer, which ended in 2008. He also worked for Funny or Die, wrote the screenplay for Ferrell's 2012 Spanish-language film Casa de Mi Padre, and co-created the IFC miniseries The Spoils of Babylon, produced by Ferrell and starring Wiig, who earned an Emmy nomination for her performance.
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