Lifetime TV will air Miracle in Motor City Sunday, November 28th 8/7C as a part of its highly anticipated annual It’s A Wonderful Lifetime holiday lineup. The film stars Tia Mowry (as “Amber Dupont”), Smokey Robinson, and Mark Taylor (“Eddie”). The backstory involves Amber Dupont enthusiastically taking on the task of organizing her church’s annual Christmas pageant in hopes of bringing in one of Motor’s City’s Motown legends, Smokey Robinson. To her surprise, her friends secretly pull in one of her old flames, Eddie (who has history with Smokey Robinson) to help persuade Smokey to show up at the holiday pageant. Mark Taylor speaks with us about his experience filming this movie and working closely with Tia Mowry. I started off the interview asking Mark what Christmas time looks like for him.

He says that he looks forward to getting together with the fam for Christmas dinner, letting the stress roll off with good laughs and light spirits. Originally from Toronto, the plan is to spend it close to home. I asked Mark what it’s like working alongside Tia. Sidenote: I didn’t remember until after the interview that Mark Taylor was the grandpa to Tia in the 2000 film, Seventeen Again. Needless to say, their TV connection was already set into motion long before now. Mark shares how Tia is an amazing individual to work with and admires how much she genuinely cares about people. He says she’s full of life and a great person to feed off of in this kind of work.

Miracle in Motor City brings a sense of nostalgia for those who are familiar with Motown or grew up listening to Motown Music. This film does a great job of capturing that nostalgic feeling! I asked Mark if any part of making this movie resonates with him personally. He shares how much like with Eddie, so many things can be thrown at you within a space of 10 minutes, but how it’s important to evaluate things maturely to determine what will really “feed my soul” when it is all said and done.

Currently, Mark Taylor is working on a reoccurring role on CW called Corner and says that he’s also diligently working on producing independently. In fact, he has been collaborating with some directors, writers and actors to have some feature films produced and secure lead roles as well. For more on Miracle in Motor City and others on the It’s A Wonderful Lifetime lineup, please visit www.mylifetime.com/movies.