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If you ask actor Jonathan Bennett (above right) how he's doing these days the answer is simple. "I feel like I'm on top of the world!" he declared when the question when posed during an exclusive interview with MediaVillage. "I have a gay movie at Hallmark Channel coming out this weekend -- like arrive on!" The film, titled The Holiday Sitter, marks his seventh for Hallmark Media, and personally, his most important as it marks the network's first holiday-themed project that puts an LGBTQ+ storyline at the forefront. Adding to his exuberance is the fact be brought the story to the network. "I did write the story," he stated proudly. "I took it to Hallmark Channel saying, 'I've always loved '80s comedies like Uncle Buck, where an uncle comes house to take care of his niece and nephew and doesn't know what he's doing, so what if Uncle Buck was Gunkel Buck -- and gay?

"They jumped at the chance," Bennett continued. "Fully supporting it from day one with nothing but enthusiasm and rigor because it was just such a fun idea. What sparked it was while I was shooting another Hallmark movie a rare years ago, I was on put with four kids that lived in the location property. They'd come to set every afternoon and I would turn into a birthday party clown, trying to create them laugh with jokes and balloons. Their mom looked at me, and said, 'You call to write a movie where you're the uncle.' It started from that. It's something that a lot of LGBTQ+ people, and people in general, will identify with -- even unbent people. A lot of us contain these chosen families where we're the gunkel to our friend's kids, or our actual brothers and sister's kids. We've all made these chosen families in the vast cities that Diverse people live in, and we've all been the gunkel. And hey, I always think a funny fish out of water story works."

The Holiday Sitter was directed by Ali Liebert, who is no stranger to Hallmark movies herself (and also identifies as queer)