Character Analysis: When Calls The Heart

During season three of When Calls the Heart, I often say I interviewed most of the supporting cast, and Andrea Brooks was one of those gracious individuals who agreed almost the moment I asked her. This season, when I asked her for a second interview, the girl was so busy that we only had the opportunity this past week to finally have a wonderful chat about When Calls the Heart, Supergirl, and more. I invite all Hearties to read this interview because when I say Andrea is exceptionally insightful about this beloved show, I'm not kidding. This interview covers more territory than Hope Valley and Catco combined! Moreover, interviewing the amiable Andrea was just like sitting down and chatting with an old friend.

RH: Andrea, it was such a
I was really excited about it. I wanted to know what I was going to be doing. I went through the whole script, and there was nothing. No Janice! I was like, "Did they give me a role and cut me already?" Then I flipped over to the cast list, and I looked for Janice, and there was no Janice. So then I found my name--Andrea Brooks--and I followed the line over and it said, "Eve Teschmacher." I was like, "Teschmacher--wait--Teschmacher. I know this name." It's a weird name. Who switches the name from Janice to Teschmacher? So I googled it, and I was like, 'I know this character! I love Superman! Of course, I remember her." So that's how I found out I had a cooler role than I initially expected.

That's neat. It was so fun to see you in something a little bit different.

Yeah, she was lots of fun to play and very different. Nurse Faith always thinks about her choices, but this role was a little bit more off-the-wall. Two very different characters to play with, but it's been pretty fun. Last fall, I was shooting simultaneously. I would be onthe Supergirl set and then the When Calls the Heart set and back to Supergirl. There were some days that we split and I'd do a night shoot on Supergirl and then go back to When Calls the Heart. So it got a little crazy sometimes.

Split personality,
I pretend to know that I understand it, but there are a lot of levels going on here. Basically, I'm just doing what I'm told. That was really neat, and I didn't find out till close to shooting what I was going to be doing. They keep it kind of secretive, and everything is sort of last-minute. It didn't really seem too different since we were on the CatCo set. There were these intruder characters, and of course, Eve wouldn't have known who they were. I think it was intended to be kind of this dream-epiphany-weird sequence. And because it's Eve and she's so creative and kind of crazy in her own right, it was kind of appropriate that she was selected to be the target of this madness that was about to erupt. 'Cause any other logical person might have called the cops or done something logical, and of course, she just hides behind the chair and stares at the