“I looked up and it was Dolly Parton. I was like, surprised, I was like [gasp],” Talia Hill said of her experience on the set of Christmas on the Square
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Dolly Parton to the rescue!
While on the set of her recently released Netflix film, Christmas on the Square, the 74-year-old musician was looking out for one of her young costars.
Talia Hill — the youngest of three siblings cast in the holiday movie — told Inside Edition that while filming she ventured off to get a cup of hot chocolate before producers asked cast members to return to their marks. As she was heading back, the young actress said that she felt somebody physically grab her and pull her back from a car that was headed in her direction on the set.
“I looked up and it was Dolly Parton,” she told the outlet. “I was like, surprised, I was like [gasp].”
“And she’s like, ‘Well, I am an angel, you know,’ ” Talia, 9, added of her interaction with the country music icon. “Cause she plays an angel in the movie. And I was in shock. She hugged me and shook me and said, ‘I saved your life!’ “
Christmas on the Square, which dropped last month on the streaming platform, takes its name from one of the songs on Parton’s new Christmas album and follows Christine Baranski’s Regina Fuller, a Scrooge-like figure who returns to her hometown to evict residents following her father’s death.
Directed by Grey’s Anatomy star and Hollywood icon Debbie Allen, Parton stars as an angel in the holiday film, alongside Jenifer Lewis, Treat Williams and Jeanine Mason.
While chatting with Inside Edition, Talia’s older brother Tristian also spoke about his experience filming with Parton. “When you think of Dolly Parton, you are just like, ‘It is Dolly Parton,’ but when you actually see her you are like, ‘Wow, it’s Dolly Parton,’ being in her presence lifts you,” he said. “She is so amazing.” Read more from People.
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