Craig Fergusonmakes for a swoon-worthy leading man on the silver screen.
So saysKathie Lee Gifford, who stars in the upcoming romantic comedy,Then Came You,with the former CBSLate, Late Showhost-turned-movie star.
“How much did you fall in love with Craig Ferguson?”Gifford, 65, asked the audience Thursday during a Q&A followinga screeningof the film at the 5th annualGreenwich International Film Festivalin Connecticut. “I feel like I met my soulmate cinematically.”
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“He is scrumptious,” director Adriana Trigiani told PEOPLE. “He is definitely a heartthrob. An old-fashioned movie star. Every woman who leaves the theater after watching Craig Ferguson inThen Came Youwill want to jump her husband … including Mrs. Ferguson.”
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Her leading man and leading lady “have a lot of chemistry,” said Trigiani, who directed the 2014 film,Big Stone Gap,starringAshley Juddand Patrick Wilson based on her 2001 bestselling book of the same name.
Gifford said she is friends with Ferguson’s wife, Megan, who urged her husband to do the film after she sent the couple the script she’d penned.
“She read the script first and she said, ‘Craig, you’ve got to do this movie. But boy does she have you down.'”
Gifford isn’t dating anyone right now, she told PEOPLE. (Her husband, NFL player-turned-commentatorFrank Gifford,died in 2015.)
“No, no …” she said. “Do I expect it? No. Would I love it? Yeah …”
She told the audience she’d like to be a bride again one day.
Gifford left the wedding dress her character dons in the movie with the owner of an inn in Scotland where they filmed many scenes, she told the audience.
“I said, ‘Keep this for me because I’m going to come back here one day and use it,’” she said, eliciting a cascade of “awwwws” from the already teary-eyed crowd.
“I felt very much in love and hopeful in that dress,” she said.
Gifford says she plans on making more movies after stepping down fromTodayin Aprilafter 11 years.
She doesn’t know when the film will be distributed but says she plans on making four more movies about these two characters with Ferguson.
“Movie making is not for the faint of heart,” she said. “But I can’t wait to do it again.”
source: people.com
