Details are coming out about Hallmark’s When Calls the Heart‘s most recent episode. Season 13, Episode 11, which aired on Sunday, March 15, featured riveting courtroom scenes that took the cast a long time to film. In fact, WCTH’s Pascale Hutton had nothing but praise for her co-star Jack Wagner, who is used to working on shows with intense production schedules. After all, the actor’s breakthrough role was on General Hospital.
Key Takeaways
- Production for Season 13’s trial scenes was so intense that the cast would film upwards of 16 hours.
- Hutton praised Wagner, who’s used to memorizing several pages of lines.
- She shared this interesting tidbit at a 2025 fan event in Kansas City, Missouri.
Jack Wagner Never Broke a Sweat
When Calls the Heart‘s latest episode included the trial that pitted Bill (Wagner) and Nathan (Kevin McGarry) against Pioneer Electric. Over the weekend, Stephanie Long, host of the Heart in Motion podcast, shared a clip on Instagram, revealing the behind-the-scenes making of that episode.
The secrets behind the scenes were first revealed at the Hallmark Christmas Experience event in 2025. That’s when Hutton shared that the cast and crew typically spend 12 to 15 hours a day, which is the norm for them. But for this episode, they had to spend 16 hours on set. It was the longest time they had ever spent on the show’s set.
They were also expected to remember a lot of dialogue, which was something easy for Wagner. His soap opera background gave him an edge, since daytime dramas are known for intense production schedules.
“The scene that we were filming was Jack monologuing for six-to-eight pages, and we were like, ‘Oh, this is gonna be a doozy,'” Hutton exclaimed. Instead, she was struck by how he managed it. “Jack walked in there for the first rehearsal, and then he rattles through it all.”
WCTH Felt Intimidated
Wagner is a veteran soap star who played Frisco Jones on General Hospital, Nick Marone on The Bold and the Beautiful, and Dr. Peter Burns on the primetime soap, Melrose Place.
The cast felt intimidated by how he handled the intensity of the filming. Hutton explained that they all “looked at each other, and we’re like, ‘He is so good.'” Her co-star, McGarry, joked that it spiraled for the rest of the cast. They realized that they couldn’t keep up with him.
McGarry shared that he looked at Wagner and told him, “You really drove that scene. You were amazing.” According to Hutton, the soap star remained humble with a tiny smile on his face.
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