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Why the Stars of Lifetime's First Gay Holiday Movie Hope It's a 'Conversation Starter' (Exclusive)

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The Christmas Setup is Lifetime's first holiday film entirely centered around a gay couple falling in love during Christmastime.

Starring real-life married couple Ben Lewis () and Blake Lee (), the romantic comedy — filmed during the pandemic — is history-making for the network, a step forward as Lifetime continues to charge ahead in its goal of expanding the breadth of its inclusive storytelling. «We're really hopeful that if the traditional Lifetime audience tunes in and embraces this movie, that's just going to embolden and further deepen the representation in years to come for queer people of color and trans people and gender nonbinary people,» Lewis, who plays Hugo, tells ET, «because everybody deserves this kind of escapism and this.

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