Chicago Med fans know Jessy Schram as Dr. Hannah Asher, while Hallmark viewers have seen her as a musician, designer and more characters. But what would happen if her two worlds collided?
“We’ve got to pull Luke Mitchell. We gotta pull Ripley,” Schram, 39, exclusively told Us Weekly of her dream Hallmark and Med collaboration.
The actress added that bringing Hannah’s current ex-TV boyfriend, Dr. Mitch Ripley — who has been played by Mitchell, 40, since season 9 — into the rom-com universe is a no-brainer.
“Let’s bring Luke on over because if we were to bring Ripley over, I feel like he’s had enough time to change,” Schram said of her vision for the crossover. “He’s licked his wounds. He’s growing as a man.”
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When drawing up her ideal Hallmark holiday movie story featuring both her and Mitchell, Schram said, “I feel like he would still be the kind of grumpy hockey coach or something like that.”
She agreed that she could play a “hometown schoolteacher” type character that connects with Mitchell’s grumpy coach.
Schram mused, “He’s so good with the kids, and he dedicates so much attention [to them], and his heart had been hurt, but you know now it’s healing, because he realizes he’s safe.”
While Mitchell has yet to be recruited officially to team Hallmark, the pair continue to work side by side on Chicago Med, which returns with new episodes in January. (After Ripley and Hannah broke up during season 10, Hannah learned she is pregnant with Dr. Dean Archer’s baby, causing a brief hiccup in her friendship with Ripley.)
Schram, meanwhile, can be seen on Hallmark Channel Saturday, December 13, in A Suite Holiday Romance.
In the movie, she plays a ghostwriter named Sabrina who is mistaken for a wealthy hotel guest while staying and working at the lavish establishment. While at the hotel, Sabrina meets Ian (Dominic Sherwood), whom she thinks is a royal, but is actually a personal secretary to a lord — a mixup that will have consequences, according to Schram.
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“It’s a series of white lies that nobody intended to make. It’s just a lot of miscommunication that’s happening,” Schram told Us of the plot, noting, “It is really sweet” and has “a lot of comedy” elements to it.
Schram is used to juggling Hallmark projects with her work on Chicago Med, which she’s starred on since 2020, telling Us, A Suite Holiday Romance was just what the doctor ordered this year in terms of her work-life balance.
“I remember going to set and it was one of those things where I was like, ‘Oh my god, I just get to smile all the time,’” she shared. “Getting to do the juxtaposition of playing Hannah, who gets to be so dynamic, but is in life-or-death situations, and then getting to just go fall in love and see what that looks like, and have the magical element be there [was great].”
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Schram continued, “To get to operate on somebody and hold their hand in a life or death situation [on Med], and then just get to go dream of your love one day is really, really fun.”
However, when asked if she’d ever play a doctor in a Hallmark project, Schram confessed she likes to keep those worlds separate.
“I get to play a doctor 10 months out of the year, so it is nice to switch it up,” she explained. “That being said, every set you know plays their hospital is very different, but I think I would rather, I would rather be the patient almost.”
Chicago Med returns to NBC Wednesday, January 7, at 8 p.m. ET.
A Suite Holiday Romance premieres on Hallmark Channel Saturday, December 13, at 8 p.m. ET and streams on Hallmark+ next day.
