'A Winning Team' Star Nadia Hatta Says She Is Incredibly Grateful For Her First Hallmark Role

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Nadia Hatta is about to star in her very first Hallmark movie. The actress, who you might recognize from Netflix’s Away, will star opposite Kristoffer Polaha in A Winning Team, which will premiere this weekend. JustJared spoke to Nadia just ahead of the premiere where she opened up about just how grateful she was to be part of the Hallmark family. Keep reading to find out more… Nadia told us that getting cast in A Winning Team was a very “crazy, loaded moment” for her. “I was in a dreamland because, to be honest with you, it’s Hallmark,” she shared. “For a long time, I was like, ‘I wanna do dramatic, I wanna play a vampire, I want to play this’, and during the pandemic, I was auditioning for all of them, and also auditioning for Hallmark.

Doing that honestly just helped me get through it.” Nadia revealed that she was very isolated during it all, because her “family was in Asia and all I did was audition.

I was reading scripts and doing all these things. But, every time I had a Hallmark audition, I had to fight for love.” “I would have to literally find it inside me to fight for love and to fight like inside myself to get to this place.

During the Pandemic, it was very challenging, and [Hallmark] actually saved me,” she shared with us about how Hallmark came in at just the right time for her. “I didn’t even know if I was ever gonna be in a Hallmark movie, but you know what, this really was very healing.