Erica Durance Reveals What Co-Star Lily D. Moore Taught Her On 'Color My World With Love' Set

Color My World with Love centers on Emma (Durance), whose daughter Kendall (Moore) becomes engaged, she wants to be happy for her but has concerns – Kendall and her fiancé have Down syndrome and Emma worries she’s not ready for this step. Slowly, Emma accepts that Kendall is ready to – and should – live her own life.

“I had so many interactions with them both,” Erica says of working with Lily and David on the film, and added that “with Lily in particular, she’d be completely present and open with her emotions. So many times, I’d look over and see she was starting to cry. I’d go, ‘Lily, do you want to talk about what’s going on? Are you, okay?’ She’d say, ‘Erica, I’m just emotional. I’m so happy as it was always my dream to be the lead of a Hallmark movie and now I am.’”

She continued, “The fact that she can have that emotion and be so comfortable in it is such a lesson. [People] get used to repressing things, or not valuing them, so Lily helped remind me as I navigate my life, to be centered in my emotions. If you need to have a cry, have it, move past it, and go to the next thing. Lily would do that, and then went back in and did her next thing. That’s something really beautiful I took from [her].”

Erica added that she was completely captivated by Lily on set.

“I just thought this girl is so special and so open about her life,” she shared. “That’s the tone she brought to the set as the lead.”

Color My World With Love airs TONIGHT, June 12 at 9 p.m. ET/PT on Hallmark Movies & Mysteries.