Chyler Leigh & Sadie Laflamme-Snow Tease The Way Home‘s Season 3 Finale: ‘We Were a Blubbering Mess’

Onscreen, Chyler Leigh and Sadie Laflamme-Snow are quite an unstoppable duo as Kat and Alice in The Way Home. Not only have they rescued Jacob (Spencer MacPherson) from the past, but they’ve juggled fitting into their new home and learning how to time travel all while being there for each other.

Speaking to them for our latest cover story, it’s clear that their dynamic onscreen comes from their offscreen friendship.

Since first meeting in 2022, the two have had a mother-daughter bond ever since. “She came up to Toronto to have Thai food,” Leigh remembers. “I don’t think you knew if I was a real adult or not, because I remember Chyler was like, ‘Can you drink? Are you a grown-up?'” Laflamme-Snow adds. “And I was like, ‘Yes, I am.'”

As for how they met their fellow co-star Andie MacDowell, who plays Kat’s mom and Alice’s grandma Del, their first impressions were a little less orchestrated.

“I think we were at the farmers market in season 1,” Laflamme-Snow says of meeting the Groundhog Day icon. “You really want to control the day you meet Andie MacDowell,” she says. “And there was just no time. There’s just too much going on.”

Luckily, the co-stars soon hit their sweet spot “We just fell into place,” Laflamme-Snow admits. “We didn’t really get a ceremonious no introduction.”

The same goes for Leigh, who met MacDowell in quite unique circumstances. “The first scene that I had with Andie, I’m like, yelling at her,” she remembers.

Despite the unusual first impression, both of them took in it stride. “She was so funny and so kind and so loving,” Leigh says. “It was effortless.”

Leigh and Laflamme-Snow then looked back at their favorite scenes together from the three seasons.

“We got to do a scene where we went back to the 70s at the same time and Kat catches Alice in the past trying to just stick around and hang out with the teens,” Laflamme-Snow describes. “She’s like, ‘What are you doing?’ And Alice and Kat have this perfectly normal mother-daughter interaction, but it just happens to be in the context of them both being in the 70s at the same time.”

“It’s something I’ve been looking forward to since we started the show,” the actress says. “Just doing something light-hearted and fun in the past together.”

For Leigh, her favorite scene with her onscreen daughter was back in season 1.

“She had just come back from the 90s where she had her breakup with Nick, and we were sitting on the bed and her hair was wet,” Leigh says. “I got to just sit there and brush her hair. It just felt like such a real mom-daughter moment.”

Seeing these two talk about the show, it’s clear that it means more to them than just a job. For Leigh, who’s starred in other hit shows like Supergirl and Grey’s Anatomy, this show has been the most transformative.

“This show has taught me so much about myself,” she says. “And I don’t know if it’s just the catharsis of it. “

She then looked back at an emotional scene in season 1 where her onscreen dad Colton (Jefferson Brown) passed away after a car crash in her arms. “For me, it was like a moment of almost releasing some demons, just letting them go, getting them out, not being afraid of what I look like on camera, not being afraid or concerned about my performance, just letting myself have a real raw, guttural moment that really let me get out of my insecure shell,” Leigh admits. “And it was one of the first times that I really felt freedom as an actor.”

Laflamme-Snow’s most transformative moment also happened back in season 1. As she performed, friends and family of hers cheered in the audience.

“Doing something live and seeing all my close people coming together and being in the audience, I could see all the people that made it possible for me to do what I love,” she says. “It was really emotional to see everyone in the same place.”

As for what’s to come for fans in the rest of season 3 (read our latest recap here!), Leigh and Laflamme-Snow are leaving us on the edge of our seats. “We were a blubbering mess,” Laflamme-Snow says of her initial reaction to reading the finale’s script. “Everyone was at the table throwing Kleenex boxes at me and I was inconsolable.”

For Leigh, however, her reaction was a bit more tamed – partly because she didn’t fully understand what happened. “It makes so much more sense after I had Evan Williams explain it to me,” she says, referring to the actor behind her onscreen love interest Elliot. “I’m telling you, if you’ve ever been affected by an episode up until now, you have not like you will be.”

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