SPOILER ALERT: This story comprises spoilers for the ending of “Our Little Secret,” out now on Netflix.

Kristin Chenoweth needed to channel her internal imply lady to play Lindsay Lohan’s judgmental mother-in-law in Netflix’s newest vacation rom-com “Our Little Secret.”

To create the saccharine-sweet, “bless your coronary heart” kind of Southern mother, Chenoweth drew from comedians like Teri Garr and Carol Burnett (who she says is “like my second mother”), and from people-watching at malls and eating places. She even took just a few cues from a few of her personal kin – as for which of them, she’s saying tight-lipped: “I’d like to remain within the household, so I’m gonna be quiet.”

Within the movie, Lohan and “Fairly Little Liars” alum Ian Harding star as exes who’re pressured to spend Christmas beneath the identical roof after discovering that their present companions are siblings. Harding says the movie stands out amongst different vacation choices because of the unpredictable nature of its plot.

“Generally you see within the Christmas motion pictures … it’s clear from the fifth minute that these persons are gonna get collectively,” he says. “I like that, that in some moments it’s like, perhaps they’re therapeutic previous wounds or they’re form of coming collectively, however they may feasibly be mates by the top of it.”

Fortunately, issues work out for the estranged couple, who discover their means again collectively on the movie’s finish. “It felt good, as a result of it felt for the characters, it’s what’s proper,” Lohan says. They need to be collectively! They only needed to go on their very own journeys and discover themselves in their very own methods as a way to notice what was meant to be. They each needed to mature in several methods.”

Audiences get clued in to the much less mature variations of Lohan and Harding’s characters within the movie’s opening, which takes place ten years previously (after they have been nonetheless a pair). To prep for the scene, Harding and Lohan blasted their favourite hits from the early 2010s within the automotive – after Harding realized when a decade in the past truly was.

“Perhaps that is additionally what occurs if you get to the stage of your 30s, like me, the place I’m like, ‘Oh, 10 years in the past. So what music was that?’” Harding quips. “After which I noticed, I’m pondering of 20 years in the past. I believe I’m rather a lot youthful than I’m.”

The movie was a blast from the previous in additional methods than one for Lohan, who’s flanked by “Imply Women” co-star Lacey Chabert and “Freaky Friday” love curiosity Chad Michael Murray on this yr’s Netflix Christmas lineup (Chabert leads “Sizzling Frosty,” whereas Murray stars in “The Merry Gents”).

Lohan says she will’t await followers to see Murray in “Freakier Friday,” set to hit theaters in August. “It’s thrilling. Chad comes into the film full drive, as Jake does, in ‘Freakier Friday’ on the bike. It’s only a actually enjoyable film. I really feel like persons are gonna chortle rather a lot. Together with lots of coronary heart, there’s different tales in it to inform. I’m actually excited to share it with everybody.”

Lohan provides that she and Jamie Lee Curtis have had “such a blast” sharing the display once more – however that’s not at all times a very good factor, she says with amusing. “We’re bother once we work collectively. We simply discuss on a regular basis. Continually speaking and yapping. There’s music within the automotive and she or he’s enjoying Chappell Roan. They’re like, ‘We’re attempting to shoot right here!’”