Chyler Leigh discusses how The Way Home uses time travel as a metaphor for parents protecting kids from past trauma. She compares the film's premise to a "Matrix inside the Matrix" and expresses surprise at finding such narrative depth in a Hallmark production.
So did you kind of raise your kids that they didn't experience the things that you experienced when you were a kid that were negative?
Did my absolute best.
So then that time travel thing, in a sense, is kind of weird, right? Because them going back to see what you went through, because you're protecting them from that.
Whoa. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Did you ever think about that in relation to your own kids? Because most parents, like, raise their kids not to go through what they went through. Like, you go to a lot of work. To protect them. Yeah, but that thing is what made you. Yeah, it's just a funny—
it is such a great premise. That's like Matrix inside the Matrix.
Yeah, no, it is.
Yeah, genius.
Yeah, I didn't expect that from Hallmark.
It's brilliant. And all of like our cast is phenomenal. It was, it was, it was a life-changing experience. It brought me here.
