Ian Harding Calls the Idea of Doing a Holiday Rom-Com withPretty Little LiarsCostar Lucy Hale 'Amazing' (Exclusive)

Mar. 15, 2025

‘Pretty Little Liars’ stars Lucy Hale and Ian Harding.Photo:Eike Schroter/Disney via Getty

Eike Schroter/Disney via Getty

Earlier this month,Brant DaughertyandTammin Sursokhad aPretty Little Liarsreunion inHallmark Channel’s Countdown to ChristmasmovieTrivia at St. Nick’s.PLLalumIan Hardinghas become a Hallmark mainstay, too, currently starring in Hallmark+’sHolidazed —and he tells PEOPLE his ownPretty Little Liarsreunion moment on the network is “bound to happen.”

“I love a good overlap,” Harding says. “I’d love to work withTroian [Bellisario]orShay [Mitchell]again, and obviouslyLucy [Hale]. There’s so much of a fan base there. I think it’s got to be very specific, but a holiday rom-com with Lucy Hale? That’d be amazing!”

SincePretty Little Liarswrapped in 2017, Harding shared the screen again withTorrey DeVitto— who played Spencer’s (Bellisario) big sister Melissa — in seasons 4 and 5 ofChicago Med. “She’s become such a good friend of mine,” Harding says. “I was just ather wedding.”

Harding says fans never forget hisPLLpast, though, as he still gets recognized as high school teacher Ezra Fitz, who has a romance with student Aria Montgomery (Hale).

“I’m grateful that the rabid fan base has grown up a little bit,” he says. “A lot of times it’s just the casual glance where somebody recognizes me, or they’ll just come up and say like, ‘Hey, I was a big fan of that show.’ And they shake your hand and then you keep walking.”

Ian Harding with ‘Pretty Little Liars’ costars (from left) Troian Bellisario, Lucy Hale and Shay Mitchell.Ron Tom/Freeform via Getty

Ron Tom/Freeform via Getty

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Thanks to streaming,Pretty Little Liarshas found new fans, too.

“It’s still out there,” Harding says of the show. “You get new fans, but they’re 12 years old and you’re like, ‘We wrapped when you were five, how does that work?’”

Ian Harding in ‘Holidazed’ with Erin Cahill and Sebastian Billingsley-Rodriguez.Hallmark

Hallmark

Later this month, Harding will star oppositeLindsay LohaninNetflix’sOur Little Secret, a holiday film in which two siblings discover their significant others dated when they all spend Christmas together. Harding feels that both Netflix and Hallmark’s holiday programming has “a lot of heart.”

“They’re two sides to the same coin and I’ve been so lucky because I’ve been able to play in both,” the father of one says. “They both try and stick to the heart of what Christmas movies are, which is about connection and family. There’s a romance to it, while also acknowledging there’s a certain amount of anxiety that comes from dealing with family, and the only way to really address that is with humor and, in some cases, wine.”

For Harding, getting to work on both Hallmark and Netflix holiday projects feels like the ultimate Christmas present.

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New episodes ofHolidazedpremiere Thursdays on Hallmark+.

source: people.com