Rachel Boston and Brendan Penny have both been making Hallmark Channel movies for the past decade, but they’re working together for the first time with 2025′s new Christmas film The More the Merrier .

The two actors actually bonded one year ago while setting sail on the first-ever Hallmark Christmas Cruise. They also just sailed again this month for the latest vacation !

“We met one year ago on the cruise and just cracked each other up,” Rachel told EntertainmentNow . “They paired us up in a lot of the different events they had on the boat, and then we got to make a Christmas movie.”

Brendan joked about how the head of casting for Hallmark noticed their chemistry and decided to put them in a movie together.

“Let’s be honest, we kind of forced them to put us together. W

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