Chris Jericho has landed his latest acting gig.
Variety is reporting Chris Jericho will star in the upcoming UPtv original movie Country Hearts.
“The daughters of country music and rock & roll royalty who find themselves at a crossroads, torn between following their dreams of performing or helping their father run their up-and-coming horse breeding business,” reads the official synopsis. “Between old flames, new love, best friends and family – they’ll all need the strength of each other to face the next steps.”
“After playing evil priests, insane asylum security chiefs, redneck social media whistle blowers and cult leaders, I jumped at the chance to play a nice guy for once in ‘Country Hearts!’” Chris Jericho said in a statement. “I was able to flex my acting chops and my character range in these movies and it was a blast to play Bones Jamieson…father, ranch owner and rock star…which basically mirrors me in real life!”
The cast for the film also includes Lanie McAuley, Katerina Maria, Brendan Morgan, Jeff Irving, Craig Strickland, David Pinard, Michelle Nolden, Genevieve Fisher, Roy Lewis, Lara Amersey, Greg Ellwand, Bebsabe Duque, Celine Bauwmans, and Neil Whitely.
The film will premiere this fall, but a sequel film, Country Hearts Christmas, has already been greenlit.
Chris Jericho has been branching out more into acting in recent years, as he had a cameo in 2022’s Terrifier 2. Jericho told Renee Paquette on The Sessions that the horror film actually led to him getting an offer to be in an upcoming Hallmark movie.
“I did a movie a few years ago called Terrifier 2. This movie came out in the fall, and it has Art the Clown as the big killer, and because it’s so violent, it was in the theaters for one day, somebody threw up, and that got around this thing ended up being in theaters for a month and ended up making $10 million on a $200,000 budget,” Chris Jericho said. “So because I was in this movie because I was a big fan of Terrifier 1, now with Terrifier 2, it’s like now Jericho is like oh, so I got an offer to do this horror movie.
“I was just reading an offer which, as you know, in Hollywood, an offer means they’re giving you the part for a Hallmark movie. I’m like, how the f**k am I in a Hallmark movie? How did Terrifier 2 lead to the Hallmark movie? It’s because, well, I did pretty good. The point is, why wouldn’t I do it now because maybe that will lead to something else? I don’t want to be a Hollywood movie star. But I like acting, and if the Hallmark Channel calls, well f**k, why wouldn’t I give it a try? So yeah, all that stuff, it’s kind of all in the mix.”
