Andie MacDowell Reveals She’s Still on the Fence About This Major Plot Point of The Way Home Season 3

Fans of Andie MacDowell were in for a treat during this season ofThe Way Home. Not only is her character Del finally getting some good news – including reuniting with her lost son and dating again years after losing her husband – viewers are learning all about her backstory too.

MacDowell, herself, is thrilled to watch it all unfold.

“I was excited for her to have this opportunity,” MacDowell told SheKnows of show newcomer Julia Tomasone who plays Del’s teen self. “I think people were going to be very interested in these young characters and the triangle that happens with Evelyn [Goodwin].”

“It’s an interesting concept that they came up with and I think Julia did a beautiful job, and I think she had a lot of fun,” she says. “I think people were going to enjoy it.”

During her teen backstory in 1974, Del meets the love of her life, Colton Landry (Jordan Doww) for the very first time.

“I wouldn’t have come up with that,” she said of their rocky beginnings. “That was definitely their creation. The two female actresses are fantastic, and the young man that plays young Colton, they do a great job. So, I mean, I think it’s going to be a lot of fun for the audience to see this version and how they ended up together.”

Another major part of this season is Del’s new romance with Sam (Rob Stewart). Del and Sam start their romance this season behind closed doors, having secret rendezvouses at the clubhouse above the barn.

So is MacDowell “Team Sam?” The actress is undecided. “I don’t know yet,” she tells us. “I haven’t decided, but I’m glad that Del’s having a good time.”

In episode three, which aired yesterday on Jan. 17, Del’s daughter Kat (Chyler Leigh) and her boyfriend Elliot (Evan Williams) find a wine bottle at the clubhouse. Soon enough, they piece together that Del’s been keeping a secret of her own.

“I’m glad she’s sneaking out to the barn like a teenager and that her daughter’s the one that finds the bottle,” MacDowell says. “So that kind of role reversal, I think, is probably going to be a lot of fun for women my age, just to see a character that’s having a good time and behaving like a kid again and having fun, especially after everything that Del’s been through.”

So why is MacDowell still on the fence about Sam? Well, she knows how connected her character was to her late husband, Colton (Jefferson Brown). “Also you have to remember what the relationship was, Colton was her dream, and that’s been hard to let go of, he even comes to her as a ghost, you know?” she says. “She’s still highly connected to him.”

Speaking of love lives, we also checked in with Sadie Laflamme-Snow, who plays Alice on the show, to talk about her character’s own blossoming love story this season with Noah (Alexander Eling). For those who haven’t seen the latest episode, Noah returns in episode 3 and the two get flirty quick in a shift in his food cart.

To Laflamme-Snow, she’s fully onboard with Alice and Noah’s story, partly because she knows how impossible her prior romance with Nick (Samuel Braun) really was.

“I think people, all of a sudden last season, got super attached to the Alice and Nick dynamic in a way that in the first season, people were like, ‘Oh, that’s cute,’ and then the second season, I think because it became even more of a star-crossed lovers situation, it almost kind of like upped the ante, and people were like, ‘I love them together,'” she says.

But, unlike the viewers, Laflamme-Snow’s excited to see her character living a romance that could actually work out. “Alice is maturing in her understanding of time travel and knowing that that’s impossible and ultimately painful, and so she has to try and stay in the present,” she says. “And I think Noah was one of the first people that [don’t] have anything to do with time travel that she’s really opened up to.”

“I think he challenges her because she’s pretty stubborn, and she’s also very elusive,” she adds. “She can’t really stay in the present very well, and he kind of pushes her to just be honest with him. And I think that that’s a really interesting dynamic. I think she needs that in her life.”

Also brewing this season is some tension between the granddaughter-grandma duo Del and Alice. As Alice continues to time travel to 1974, she noses into Del and Colton’s love story when they were teens.

“I think that anytime that you really open yourself up to someone, it means that there’s a long way to fall if something goes wrong,” Laflamme-Snow says of their dynamic. “And I think Alice is known to be pretty nosy. I think she’s known to be pretty she can be really intense. She can be in that sort of classic teenager way, as you’re sort of getting to feel like an adult but not really be one. Everything sort of revolves from her point of view.”

“She’s not really holding everyone’s point of view at the same time,” she adds. “I think that that can kind of get her into a bit of a bit of time travel trouble.”

MacDowell, on the other hand, is just happy to have more scenes with her beloved co-star. “I think that anytime I’m working with Sadie, I’m having a good time,” she says with a smile. “So it’s always fun when they write something for me to do with her.”

The Way Home season 3, episode 3 is out now on Hallmark+!

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