'Wynonna Earp' Star Melanie Scrofano Makes Her Hallmark Channel Debut in 'Welcome To Mama's'

Melanie Scrofano is making her Hallmark Channel debut this weekend in a brand new movie called Welcome To Mama’s.

Here’s the summary: After she inherits an Italian restaurant in Brooklyn, Amy teams up with a blacklisted master chef (Daniel di Tomasso) looking for a second chance. They discover that the most important ingredient for any recipe is always love.

In a new interview, Melanie opened up about making her first Hallmark movie.

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“It all happened very quickly,” she told ET about how she landed the movie. “We got a call we were not expecting and they offered me this role, and I saw it was an Italian storyline and I got very excited because I don’t often get to play Italian, which is such a huge part of my childhood and my life.”

Melanie added that so many of her “friends who have done Hallmark movies and they had a really good time, and they speak highly of the whole process. And actually the creator of Wynonna [Earp], Beau Smith, he was so hyper when my castmates from Wynonna got onto Hallmark. And I got jealous! Because he’s such a fanatic.”

Of her character, Amy, she shared that she finds that Amy can’t really cook “endearing, but I love how hard she works. I love how much passion she has for not just what she does, but for people. The obvious relationship is the love story, but she also had this mother figure in her life, Mama, played by Lorraine Bracco, and her best friend that she couldn’t live without, played by Keisha Haines.”

Welcome to Mama’s premieres TONIGHT, February 27 at 8 p.m. on Hallmark Channel.